Bill and thread,
Since I know everyone is sick of the X-Box, I thought I'd post something new to talk about: X-Box2!
mcvnow.com
X-Box 2 Expected in 2005
SAN JOSE ? The market for computer and video games is compelling enough for Microsoft to talk about X-Box 2 on the same day it formally announced X-Box. Bill Gates, Microsoft?s chairman and chief software architect, said that over a period of four years ?X-Box will stay the same.? It will be released in fall 2001, Gates said.
Seamus Blackley, who heads Microsoft?s advance technology group, echoed his leader?s sentiments. X-Box 2 will be ready in five years, Blackley said.
Developers Microsoft spoke with prior to the announcement all told the Redmond, Wash., giant that a stable platform was important to grab their support for the new machine, Gates said in his keynote address today at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif.
Microsoft is also forward-looking in its hardware development. It will support HDTV once ?someone decides on a standard,? jibed Blackley. Earlier, Gates had noted that X-Box will be capable of higher display resolutions even than HDTV. |
