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Subject: XBoX 2 ......... REAL OR FAKE???
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Poll: Is xbox 2 comin out anytime soon  [closed]
mabye:  26%
(7 Votes)
HELL NO:  4%
(1 Votes)
yes:  26%
(7 Votes)
no :  26%
(7 Votes)
HELL YES:  19%
(5 Votes)
Total Votes: 27

What i want to kno i if xbox 2 is comin out???

  • 11.21.2004 3:49 PM PDT
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why all the choices its either yes or no a maybe could work but by now its either yes or no

  • 11.21.2004 3:51 PM PDT
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yes there have been leak annoucements. but they never annoucned it because they wanted to boost there xbox sales with halo2 on christmas

  • 11.21.2004 4:28 PM PDT
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define soon?

and no its not going to be coming out soon. 2006

  • 11.21.2004 4:31 PM PDT
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Fake, definately. It's nothing but a silly rumor.

Microsoft is jumping out of the console market, since they see no money in it.

  • 11.21.2004 4:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: ObbiQuiet
Fake, definately. It's nothing but a silly rumor.

Microsoft is jumping out of the console market, since they see no money in it.


well if they knew how to make a console and not a computer in a box and call it a console then they might be able to make some cash in the market as is they lose money on all xbox sold.

  • 11.21.2004 4:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: Mushroom Tap
Posted by: ObbiQuiet
Fake, definately. It's nothing but a silly rumor.

Microsoft is jumping out of the console market, since they see no money in it.


well if they knew how to make a console and not a computer in a box and call it a console then they might be able to make some cash in the market as is they lose money on all xbox sold.


Of course, I wasn't being in the least bit sarcastic. No sir.

(and study the Xbox build - the problem is the parts they use and the prices the companies will sell them for, not how microsoft put the box together)

  • 11.21.2004 5:02 PM PDT
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it is on!

*ding ding ding*

round one

  • 11.21.2004 5:03 PM PDT
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Yes, it is comming out. Xbox 2 and Xbox 2 HD(one with a hard drive) should come out in either late '05 or March of '06. A year after that, around the same time PS3 will be launched, Xbox 2 PC will be realesed.

Sony is so scrued.

  • 11.21.2004 6:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: flamechu
Sony is so scrued.

Believe me, they're not.

  • 11.21.2004 6:08 PM PDT
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I hate that you have to pay extra for a HD,No memory cards made Xbox different.

  • 11.21.2004 6:09 PM PDT
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actualy they are think about it if you expand your market to meet all demands then you have no opposition and then just buy out all the gameing studios im prety sure microsoft has the cash but this is the basic idea

xenon(no hard drive): this would meet the demands of the people that think that the xbox is to bulky and insead of the hard drive use memory cards

xenon(with hard drive): meets the demands of the original xbox fans that want the whole packege and dont care about size

xenon PC: i think this will mee the demand of the mouse and key board idea that everyone wants

pluss the great graphics the G5 graphics card has to offer microsoft can do no wrong

  • 11.21.2004 6:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: flamechu
Yes, it is comming out. Xbox 2 and Xbox 2 HD(one with a hard drive) should come out in either late '05 or March of '06. A year after that, around the same time PS3 will be launched, Xbox 2 PC will be realesed.

Sony is so scrued.


I don't know... unless Xbox 2 picks up BlueRay technology, it seems as though Sony might have the edge.

  • 11.21.2004 6:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: PsYcHo KiD
What i want to kno i if xbox 2 is comin out???

What I want to know is if XBOX 2 is comin' out?
This post has now earned the pudgypenquin seal of approval.

  • 11.21.2004 6:27 PM PDT
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"Next" Xbox Hardware Takes Form
Posted by: Ken on Tuesday, November 9th, 2004
Type: News
Source: http://www.theinquirer.net

MICROSOFT’S XBOX 2 hardware is starting to come together, according to reports, as final graphics details are thrashed out.
Sources have told us that ATI is now starting to roll out the R500 part which will be the basis of Xbox 2, ahead of the machine’s launch on January 5 at the Consumer Electronics Show.

R500 is a Shader Model 3.0 part, and will be similar to the R520 part that will be its next generation PC graphics chip. The tape out will be a relief to developers, who have been working on the 9800 class hardware that shipped in the Xbox 2 development kits.

A spokesman for Nvidia told the INQ that he had had numerous requests from Xbox developers for GeForce 6800 cards, since coders were eager to start work on SM3.0 routines, regardless of the final render target.

The tape out of R500 - which has been delayed, we are told, fairly substantially - means that Microsoft’s coders now face a frantic 2 months of coding to create demo routines to make the most of the graphics hardware, so that they can wow the Las Vegas crowds.

We are hearing conflicting reports about backwards compatibility of the Xbox 2 hardware with Xbox 1, which appears to be one of the reasons for the delay. One camp is telling us that ATI is having a hard time making Xbox software work because of all the Nvidia-specific routines that were programmed in games.

Another source is telling us that Nvidia is being more than a little awkward about releasing details of how its chips work to its rivals, and that Microsoft is sitting awkwardly in the middle. The lacerations of pens on paper were rumoured to be coming from the offices of m’learned fiends.

The Xbox 2 deal that Microsoft has with ATI is very different from the one it put in place with Nvidia for the original machine. Microsoft pays Nvidia a flat rate for each chip it supplies for the Xbox, a figure which has stayed unchanged since the machines launch. As chip manufacturing prices have come down, this has enabled Nvidia to rake the cash in as it makes a huge profit on each chip. Realising its mistake, Microsoft is fabricating its Xbox 2 graphics chips itself, and just paying a license fee to ATI for the chip design - a far less lucrative deal.

A spokesman for ATI told us that we should talk to Microsoft about Xbox 2, and declined to comment on the status of the company’s progress with the R500 design. A Microsoft spokeswoman told us that the company wouldn’t comment on speculation about the hardware in Xbox 2. Nvidia told us that it was happy to be working exclusively on its next-generation PC hardware.
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Three Flavors Of Xbox 2
Posted by: Jeff on Thursday, November 11th, 2004
Type: News
Source: http://www.theinquirer.net

One of them will be like a PC, shock.

A SLIDE from a non disclosure agreement (NDA) presentation seen by the INQ points toward Microsoft launching three versions of the Xbox 2, one of which is a fully functioning PC.

The presentation, understood to have been given to analysts and market researchers in the UK earlier this year, plots a time-line for the introduction of the systems. Xbox Next and Xbox Next HD are planned for Autumn 2005, whereas the Xbox Next PC is penciled in for Autumn 2006.

The standard Xbox Next will not include a hard drive, which will allow Microsoft to cut costs on this basic unit. Xbox Next HD, as you might imagine, does include a hard drive and will offer increased functionality based on this. Xbox Next PC is, according to the presentation, an entry-level PC that runs Windows and all standard PC software. It also includes CD Burner, Wireless keyboard, mouse and controller and will work best connected to a high-definition TV or PC monitor. Media Center functionality - like movies, music and photos - is also included. The device will also play most available PC games.

System outline specifications note that Internet browsing and instant messaging would be key applications, and that the entire unit will be smaller than the current Xbox, although it will not be possible to upgrade the shipping memory or processor.

The year-long gap between the mooted introductions of the 2 standard Xboxes before the Xbox Next PC is an interesting decision, which suggests that Microsoft realizes the time that the market needs to acclimatise to TV media functionality. Since the Vole expects to ship Xbox Next before the Sony PlayStation 3, 2 versions of the console allow it to get the first wave out before PS3, but to also spoil the launch of Sony’s flagship by concurrently announcing the PC version


I got these two articals from xboxaddict.com.

  • 11.21.2004 6:29 PM PDT
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There probably is an xbox 2 coming out. I just can't say when. It might be in a year, or it might be in ten years, none of us know for sure! If one did come out though, it would be pretty awesome...still with the release of halo 2, microsoft has no need to make an xbox two. Simply because enough people are buying xbox so they can get halo 2.

...as everyone else has been saying.

[Edited on 11/21/2004 6:48:32 PM]

  • 11.21.2004 6:37 PM PDT
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X box 2 isn't coming out until fall 2005

  • 11.21.2004 7:33 PM PDT
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Xbox 2 is a figment of your imagination, there is no xbox2 or xbox, or microsoft, or bungie. In fact this site dosnt exist and you are not reading this, you are just going insane.

  • 11.21.2004 7:44 PM PDT
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ITS CALLED X-BOX NEXT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 11.21.2004 8:05 PM PDT
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i know for sure that xbox 2 is coming out, because months ago in Game Informer they announced a game that will be coming out for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 2. They even had pictures, and the game looks great.

  • 11.21.2004 8:17 PM PDT
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yeah, i ahve a couple of xb2 videos, issued out with the official australian xbox mag,. there good videos and on one theres a chick with a gals, simple, but geezuz, you should see the glass. i could have tried to poor milk into my tv because of how real that galss was, phew.

  • 11.21.2004 8:26 PM PDT
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I Figured out what would bring the end of the world a merger between sony and microsoft. just I thought I had made me laugh thinking about it.

  • 11.22.2004 12:07 AM PDT
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The thought of Nintendo pulling off something good for their next consol(if there is one) makes me laugh.

  • 11.22.2004 1:42 PM PDT