Xbox 360 U.S. launch: November 4, 2005
Highlander
"According to a slip-up on the Microsoft Partner site, Microsoft (by
mistake) has announced (and quickly removed the infomation) the launch date
of Xbox 360 as November 4 - 2005. "
http://www.xbox365.com/news.cgi?id=GGuGPrLGrr07140635
" The Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system places you at the center
of the experience. Available this holiday season, Xbox 360 ignites a new era
of digital entertainment that is always connected, always personalized, and
always in high definition."
Launch Date: November 4 2005 We make that 112 days away and counting.... "
Kent Rastin
That can't possibly be correct.
Take away testing and duplication and other over head and you are left
with developers only having their hands on real 360 hardware for
launch titles for a couple of months.
I have a bad feeling about this launch.
toad...@sbcglobal.net
wrote:
>
>Take away testing and duplication and other over head and you are left
>with developers only having their hands on real 360 hardware for
>launch titles for a couple of months.
>
>I have a bad feeling about this launch.
>
I'm with you on that. Beside it's too early, there is still plenty of
life in the current generation of consoles but MS is all too eager to
be first on the market with the first next-gen console.. i'm curious
though, will MS still release software for the XBox or will that be
thrown aside especially if the launch for the 360 isn't spectacular.
toadie
Zackman
> I have a bad feeling about this launch.
Yes, you've made that clear. But your subtle trolling is a welcome break
from Bligmerk's overt pants-shitting. So thank you.
-Z-
Highlander
<toad...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:bvded1dtr1j925hj9...@4ax.com...
but going by your post, you don't seem to understand that there is very
little
life left in the current XBOX, and that Microsoft has been planning the Xbox
360
launch since early 2002, over 3 years ago. Microsoft planned & designed
the first
Xbox to last 4 years, in hardware, software support and marketing. So as
far as
Microsoft is concerned, as well as developers, and early adopters, it is not
too early.
Paul Heslop
the only reason there's little life in it is cos people like you
salivate over the next machine as soon as the other one is launched.
Plenty of life left in the xbox, until the next box shows its (VERY)
ugly face
--
Paul (And I'm, like, "yeah, whatever!")
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MS#1Fanboy-JoJo
zac...@SPAMISEVILearthling.net says...
GT4 KickAss
> I have a bad feeling about this launch.
Who in their right mind would feel good about the Xbox 360 launch?
Shit, Xbox itself cost M$ over 4 billion dollars in losses throughout
it's life cycle.
This time, they have a console that can't do backwards compatibility
correctly, is extreemly weak in hardware, is harder to program for than
the last one, and is white like the Dreamcast.
360 is fucked.
Andrew Ryan Chang
>Take away testing and duplication and other over head and you are left
>with developers only having their hands on real 360 hardware for
>launch titles for a couple of months.
>
>I have a bad feeling about this launch.
For a historical comparison, Japanese PS2 devs were scheduled to
get their full dev kits "at the end of Oct 1999" for an early March
launch.
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/072/072803p1.html
followups trimmed down to rgv.sony and agvx.
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