The Consumer Electronics Show has confirmed that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is set to give a pre-show keynote speech in Las Vegas on January 5th next year - with a public announcement of Xbox 2 widely expected.
Gates will speak on Wednesday, January 5th at 6.30pm PST, the night before the opening of the CES event - which is the largest trade show of any description in North America, and is expected to attract 130,000 professionals from 110 countries over its three-day span. The Xbox 2 announcement, which was originally rumoured to be planned for the Game Developer's Conference earlier this year, is now hotly tipped to feature in Gates' keynote, after the GDC announcement turned out to be regarding Microsoft's XNA development platform.
Many of Microsoft's key game development partners already have early versions of Xbox 2 development hardware, with the platform - codenamed Xenon - thought to be based on a multi-processor design using IBM's Power5 CPU architecture and ATI's next-generation Radeon graphics unit.
News source: GamesIndustry.biz
Gates will speak on Wednesday, January 5th at 6.30pm PST, the night before the opening of the CES event - which is the largest trade show of any description in North America, and is expected to attract 130,000 professionals from 110 countries over its three-day span. The Xbox 2 announcement, which was originally rumoured to be planned for the Game Developer's Conference earlier this year, is now hotly tipped to feature in Gates' keynote, after the GDC announcement turned out to be regarding Microsoft's XNA development platform.
Many of Microsoft's key game development partners already have early versions of Xbox 2 development hardware, with the platform - codenamed Xenon - thought to be based on a multi-processor design using IBM's Power5 CPU architecture and ATI's next-generation Radeon graphics unit.
News source: GamesIndustry.biz
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i bet you its already done he has one in his house but he doesnt want to tell anyone about it
I wan't this baby
It was first, ruled for a while. Then the Xbox came, got better and better and surpassed it because of better hardware mainly (nicer graphics, thus more people buying it. Andhalf the games are cross-platform so..)
I think the same will happen to the Xbox2 when it comes out... It'll get surpassed by a console with better hardware after a while.
Yea, just like the TG-16 beat the carp out of the Genesis. And just like the Atari jaguar beat the carp out of the PS1. And just like the Dreamcast beat the carp out of the PS2.
sorry, n00b, but the Dreamcast was first this generation.
Surpassed it in what? HW sales? sorry, your wrong there. Game sales? Sorry, wrong again. Sales in $? Sorry, your wrong again. HW quality? Sorry, the xbox has the biggest HW failure rate this generation.
It looks like Keito really embarrassed him/herself with that post.
Anyhow the Xbox has another hit against it that neither Sony nor Nintendo do. That would be it hasn't been heavily accepted world wide, the Xbox has only really sold well in America. I'm not 100% sure about Europe but I know the sales for the Xbox in Japan were far below what Microsoft expected, it just didn't take off there. And like it or not that's a large section of the gaming market, a market where Nintendo and Sony have done very well in (as well as doing well in American and Europe).
The Xbox 2 will never be number one unless it can take a large section of the gaming market in every region not just the United States.
the same can be said for Nintendo as well. Nintendo is last in every region except Asia and maybe Canada, i'm not sure there. although ps2 does a good job of destroying both of them combined, MS has managed to do pretty well in beating Nintendo at their own game.
SVC obviously has no clue. Sony is the worst when it comes to hardware failure with consoles.
Didnt Gamecube also use a IBM CPU??? Cuz if so............my god help us
Wow - The GameCube is how many years old now?
Some info for you:
"Of particular note, IBM brags that each Power5 chip can be split up to handle up to 10 logical partitions. This gives customers a way to run more workloads on a single box. In addition, the Power5 chips can churn through more software threads via IBM's multi-threading technology, which was not available on the older Unix boxes. Customers can run AIX, Linux or i5/0S on any of the systems announced today.
While these new features put more pressure on Sun and HP, they also make IBM's Unix machines more competitive against its own mainframe boxes. The 64-processor i5-595 and p5-595 deliver many mainframe-like features but fall a bit more in the "open systems" category, meaning customers can gain price/performance advantages and be less dependent on very proprietary mainframe tools.
The 590 will be offered with a 1.65GHz version of the Power5 chip, while the 595 can ship with either 1.65GHz or 1.90GHz processors."
The *new* Power5 CPU to be used in the XB2 is a High-end Workstation/Server CPU.
Try to be more informed next time.
--ScottKin
Wow - The GameCube is how many years old now?
Some info for you:
"Of particular note, IBM brags that each Power5 chip can be split up to handle up to 10 logical partitions. This gives customers a way to run more workloads on a single box. In addition, the Power5 chips can churn through more software threads via IBM's multi-threading technology, which was not available on the older Unix boxes. Customers can run AIX, Linux or i5/0S on any of the systems announced today.
While these new features put more pressure on Sun and HP, they also make IBM's Unix machines more competitive against its own mainframe boxes. The 64-processor i5-595 and p5-595 deliver many mainframe-like features but fall a bit more in the "open systems" category, meaning customers can gain price/performance advantages and be less dependent on very proprietary mainframe tools.
The 590 will be offered with a 1.65GHz version of the Power5 chip, while the 595 can ship with either 1.65GHz or 1.90GHz processors."
The *new* Power5 CPU to be used in the XB2 is a High-end Workstation/Server CPU.
Try to be more informed next time.
--ScottKin
Thanks for your info but im saying this because the Gamecube sucked d*ck and everyone knows it. Ive experinced it and trust me PS2 and Xbox are alot better in all aspects. And a server chip? In case you didnt know server chips are designed for server activities not gaming so if this is the case then the Xbox will suffer because the CPU wont be designed for it.
And the attitude was something extra that shouldnt have been added. Your not Mr.Know-It-All and all of us makes mistakes thank you very much....
Gamecube's short comings was due to a lack of developer interest and popularity with all generations. It tended to focus on mostly the younger audience with an occasional game for the teens and up. What they didnt realize is that the later group had the money to buy games, while the kiddies don't and parents are more reluctant to spend money on these games. It had nothing to do with the hardware.
Altho your first point is true the bold isnt. GC's hardware sucked compared to Xbox and PS2 (Its didnt even come out "online" out-of-the-bo
I thought you had to buy a modem for the PS2 to go online. Not to mention a hard drive
Yes you had to buy a modem at first. A hard drive is not required to go online.
...and it's still not as good as the Dreamcast.
The games released for the xbox thus far are a joke. Halo? Same room over and over. Fable? Yea, an RPG that can be completed in 10 hours. If you can complete a game in 10 hours, I don't think it qualifies as an RPG.
It is Sad really, the xBox could have been so much more. It really did have potential, It just became a failure because of no exclusive good games. Oh well, the other 3 current gen systems (Dreamcast, Gamecube, PS2) delivered
Just because you don't like the mainstream titles a console brings doesn't mean its a failure; it means that's not your console of choice, or failed to deliver to you. The Xbox has "deep" and "inventative" titles just as any other console. They may not be huge hits but they're there.
you name two games and say omg the system sucks. no, everybody considers those games excellent. there's halo, soon to be halo 2, kotor 1 and 2, morrowind (which has more depth than Final Fantasy could ever hope to achieve), ninja gaiden, project gotham, etc...i could go on and on, but i'm only listing the games i've purchased.
And really, people have to shut up about Halo being repetitive. Bungie admits it, and they also say Halo 2 is everything they wanted Halo to really be. They just had to rush Halo out the door.
fags.
Spread the word, down with XBOX2!!!!!!!!!!! (Or at least postpone it)
and i dont have any such things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Overall Opinion: PlayStation(2) is better and XBOX could use some improvement
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