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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]
Microsoft Chips In For Xbox Next
News Chairman Bill Gates is expected to discuss Xbox next at the CES show in Las Vegas this January, Doherty said. According to sources, the software giant will more actively participate in the design of the brains for the next version of its Xbox...
[November 10, 2003, 12:20]
Q&A: What Next For Xbox?
News ZDNet UK's gaming site, GameSpot UK, recently met with J Allard, general manager for the Xbox platform at Microsoft, and Michel Cassius, director of publishing for Xbox Europe. On the agenda was the European launch of the console and plans for the...
[March 13, 2002, 16:39]
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]
Microsoft's Rare Buy Pits Xbox 2 Against PS3
News Microsoft's purchase of UK games developer Rare will help the console maker to compete against Sony when the next-generation Xbox console goes up against the PlayStation 3, according to analysts. Unless the move starts a round of acquisitions now...
[September 25, 2002, 16:39]
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. Dan Vivoli, the company's senior vice president of...
[April 2, 2001, 16:26]
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]
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]
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]
Xbox Online Pricing Set
News Microsoft will spend $2bn (£1.4bn) over the next five years in its effort to make Xbox the leading video game console, a company executive said Monday. John O'Rourke, marketing director for Microsoft's games division, said the company will spend...
[May 21, 2002, 9:46]
Xbox Could Be Another UK Rip-off
News When Microsoft launches its Xbox games console in the UK, next spring, it is likely to be priced higher than the costs justify, according to the Consumer Association. Xbox will hit the shelves in America on 8 November, this year, with an expected...
[May 17, 2001, 15:08]
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]
Nintendo Readies Console Counterpunch
News The GameCube and Xbox both launch early next year in the UK. As Yogi Berra said, it's deja vu all over again: on Sunday, Nintendo launches its GameCube in the US, a mere three days after Microsoft entered the video game market with its Xbox console.
[November 16, 2001, 12:31]
Consoles Put The Squeeze On PC Games
News That will change, however, as next-generation consoles such as the Xbox sport broadband Internet connections and other features formerly exclusive to PCs. The panel gathered on Thursday to debate the future of PC-based games in an era of steadily...
[March 23, 2001, 9:48]
Will PlayStation 2 Survive Xbox Onslaught?
News PS2, due to hit the UK next month, will face a technical onslaught from Nintendo's GameCube and particularly Microsoft's entry into next-generation gaming, Xbox. Xbox "calls for a system two to five times faster than the PS2 by clock rate and...
[October 4, 2000, 14:01]
Microsoft Has High Hopes For Xbox
News Q&A: What next for Xbox? Microsoft's Xbox Microsoft's Xbox is something of a Trojan horse. But with built-in support for high-speed networking, a 8GB hard drive, DVD playback capabilities and display support for HDTVs, the Xbox does more than just...
[March 14, 2002, 11:49]
Microsoft Names The Day For Xbox Online
News The software giant has said it will spend $2bn over the next few years to build out the Xbox Live network and develop the next generation of its game console. The company expects to have 50 games offered through Xbox Live and more than 100,000...
[August 13, 2002, 8:25]
Nintendo's New Year's Revolutions
News Thus, though the November launch of Microsoft's next-generation console, the Xbox 360 was considered a success, and it's still hard to find one of the machines, there's been a notable lack of excitement over any of the Xbox launch titles.
[January 19, 2006, 15:25]
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]
Study Says PlayStation2 Will Rule Thriving Market
News The updated report estimates that the new generation of console platforms, which includes the Sony PlayStation2, the Microsoft Xbox and the Nintendo GameCube, will have combined US sales of more than 60 million units by 2005.
[August 8, 2001, 12:18]
