X-box, E3 show and game stocks on Barrons cover this week.
"But the potential juggernaut that has everyone agog is Microsoft, whose Xbox is expected to debut this fall. Already, Bill Gates -- who in a sense is engaging his Japanese counterparts, Hiroshi Yamauchi of Nintendo and Nobuyuki Idei of Sony in the ultimate global videogame -- has appeared at three industry convocations to hype the Xbox. He's got plenty to hype, because, in terms of horsepower, it promises to dwarf the offerings from his two big rivals. The Xbox will have 64 megabytes of processing power, built-in broadband capability and polygon performance -- a measure of how quickly an image can be changed -- of a standard-setting 125 million per second. DeMatteo, who says that Gamestop gets about 15% of new game hardware allocations in the U.S., recently stopped accepting advance orders for Xbox because they exceeded 50,000. GameCube is trailing those orders by about half, but is gaining rapidly.
The hype will reach fever pitch this week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles -- E3 to the cognoscenti -- where Sony is expected to unveil details of its Internet strategy, and Microsoft and Nintendo will battle each other to wow the crowd with their consoles. Meanwhile, software publishers like Electronic Arts will divulge details of their coming titles."
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