THe launch date of the Xbox2 is also heresay as well. Sony claims they
don't expect their PS3 to launch before 2006.
The new chipsets for the Xbox2 won't be ready until say mid 2005
according to the manufacturers and that's if nothing goes wrong.
Which leaves Microsoft 6 months max to get ready for a christmas 2005
launch. Might as well be 2006 at E3 or something.
If they have everything moving to a very precise plan, they could make
it though!
The XBox and the PS2 seem to all be heading for a definite price cut,
though nothing official announced by either company, probably to about
129US.
The 99US is a pipe dream in my view, brought about by Nintendo's
surprising move to put their Gamecube at 99US.
Maybe it will be priced at 99US when the Xbox2 is released?
The lack of backward compatibility is a shame though.
-Gel
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From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
However, if you don't have an XBox yet, the most plausible XBox hubbub
I've heard is that MS will severely cut the price to $99 around Labor
Day, since the XBox 2 is expected in 2005 at some point. That makes a
great deal of sense, since backwards compatibility will likely not be a
feature of the XBox 2 (snarkily known as the iBox) - MS will want to
move as much software for the original console as possible before it
becomes yesterday's news. $99 is within range of most people, hell, I
make that much in an hour selling heroin at the middle school... I mean,
programming contracts.
- Jim
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