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Ballmer Sets Launch Date For Xbox 2
News Microsoft will deliver the next version of its Xbox game console in 2006, chief executive Steve Ballmer said. Nvidia supplies the graphics processor--the most expensive component in the console -- for the current Xbox, but ATI has said it would...
[June 20, 2003, 7:38]
Next Xbox Will Sport IBM Chip
News Microsoft's next Xbox will have IBM inside. The agreement, which is likely to produce a fresh round of speculation about whose processor will win the central role in the next Xbox, gives IBM a hand in the three major game consoles -- including...
[November 4, 2003, 9:00]
Reports On Xbox Delay Premature
News Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported on Friday that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, speaking during a press event, said a next-generation version of the Xbox video game console would arrive in 2006, later than many industry figures had expected.
[June 23, 2003, 8:14]
Xbox Online Pricing Set
News John O'Rourke, marketing director for Microsoft's games division, said the company will spend that much to build out the network for online Xbox gaming and to fund research and development for the next version of the console and support for game...
[May 21, 2002, 9:46]
GDC: PlayStation 3 - The Next Generation
News The game console's bulky controller repelled Japanese consumers, for instance, forcing Xbox to design a slimmed-down version that comes standard with the Japanese Xbox and as an add-on purchase for US and European users with small mitts.
[March 22, 2002, 10:03]
No Windows XP Until 2002?
News If they found themselves in a position where they were messaging on Windows XP and Xbox at the same time, they would give on XP," Guernsey Research analyst Chris LeTocq said. But if Windows XP hits store shelves after October, he asserts, competing...
[May 1, 2001, 9:04]
Sony Unveils UK PS3 Pricing, Availability
News That is a significant innovation that the Xbox 360 does not have, and it is not known if Nintendo's own forthcoming next-generation console, the Wii, will have similar functionality. Those prices are significantly higher than Microsoft's Xbox 360...
[May 9, 2006, 9:00]
GDC 2007: XDK Redux - New Features And Tools For Xbox 360 Developers
Downloads This presentation will highlight a number of these features, provide demos and share thoughts on how to effectively integrate them into your next Xbox 360 title or development process. Over the past year, many exciting enhancements and features...
[August 29, 2007, 12:11]
Microsoft Announces Game Development Standard
News Allard, and will be extended in the next version of the Xbox and Longhorn, the successor to Windows XP. While Bach and Allard promoted XNA as a way for developers to begin learning the tools they'll use to create games for the next Xbox, they...
[March 25, 2004, 10:00]
Stakes Are High For Xbox Online Play
News Estimates are that the company will be lucky to have a million Xbox Live subscribers by the end of next year, and Microsoft's most optimistic projections call for 10 million subscribers by the time a new version of the Xbox is introduced around 2005.
[November 15, 2002, 8:10]
No Hard Drive In Xbox Future?
News The combination has bolstered speculation that Microsoft will drop the hard drive from the next version of the Xbox to cut production costs for the money-losing console. Microsoft representatives declined to comment on the company's plan for next...
[February 26, 2004, 8:10]
GameCube Chip Shipments Reach 10 Million
News Pulling up third in the game-console race is Microsoft's Xbox, which uses a standard version of Intel's Pentium III processor for PCs. Microsoft reported worldwide sales of four million Xbox units as of 30 June.
[September 20, 2002, 9:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary 16.11.2001
Blog Our sister site Gamespot UK has installed an XBox (in the Xbox Room, of course), next to the Dreamcast and PlayStation2, and we flock in to see this much-awaited device. But I've seen better on the PS2 as well, and there's stuff coming out next...
[November 16, 2001, 16:25]
Full Steam Ahead For Nvidia Xbox Chips
News Nvidia, the graphics chip maker, plans to begin manufacturing graphics and communications chips for Microsoft's Xbox video game console next month, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Nvidia's Xbox graphics chip is based on the...
[April 2, 2001, 16:26]
Gates Says .Net On Track
News On the gaming front, Microsoft's Xbox video game console will have 15 to 20 games available when the product is released 8 November in the US (UK release is scheduled for March 2002), with a total of 100 games by the end of the fiscal year, said...
[July 27, 2001, 10:13]
Comdex: Gates' High Hopes For Tablet PC
News The video, which spoofed "Entertainment Tonight," included a duel with Gates as fictional wizard Harry Potter and Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer as Luke Skywalker, as well as scenes from a fictitious Xbox game, "Matrix: The golden years".
[November 12, 2001, 9:00]
Gaming Companies Take Aim At Online Profits
News But McMillan said making money from console online gaming is more likely to happen when PlayStation 3 and the next Xbox hit the market in a few years. Microsoft is already working the online angles, though, with the Xbox Live online gaming service...
[May 14, 2004, 11:50]
Sony: Game Wars Are Over - We Win
News One of the early supporters of online PS2 gaming has been leading games publisher Electronic Arts, which has said it will produce an online PS2 version of its hit "Madden Football" franchise but will not support the Xbox.
[May 22, 2002, 8:46]
Sony Builds Interest In PS2 Online Gaming With 'EverQuest'
News Sony is racing against Microsoft, which has said it will launch an online service for its Xbox game machine in late summer or early autumn. Sony will announce on Tuesday the release of a PlayStation2 version of its popular online PC game "EverQuest...
[April 9, 2002, 9:26]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
News The Xbox, and Linux users' efforts to run their software of choice on it, is seen by many as a test case for future PCs that are more tightly controlled by the vendor -- a vision embodied in Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB...
[September 16, 2003, 17:39]
