Xbox 2/Xbox Next/Xenon to debut at E3 2005?
By Ryan Block 
posted February 1st 2005 11:13AM
posted February 1st 2005 11:13AM
What's that noise, you ask? What you're hearing right now is the sound of 10,000 Xbox fanboys purchasing their
tickets to LA for E3—Microsoft confirmed a report that the Xbox
2/Xenon will indeed not debut at the Game Developers Conference this year (GDC was where they debuted the original
Xbox 5 years ago); nearest in the schedule is the Electronics Entertainment Expo in May, but MS isn't making any
promises. What? Don't look surprised, we didn't really think Gates was going to make it
happen at
CES.
P.S. Don't get your hopes up on the picture, if you don't remember this was a
supposedly leaked early design photo, which will most
assuredly not be the real deal.
[Thanks, Cosmo]
I don't think MS really confirmed that the announcement is going to happen at E3. They just said that it wasn't going to happen at the GDC. They did say that there will be little news until E3, but that certainly doesn't mean there's going to be an announcement. Anyone following MS product releases should be able to read between the lines here. It simply means that this is the earliest possible announcement date if everything goes smoothly. In other words, don't expect an announcement at E3. Expect it sometime closer to the holiday.
Okay fanboys, start telling me how wrong I am...
I'm pretty sure Microsoft won't let Nintendo or Sony launch their next-gen parts first. In fact, it seems there's a good chance we'll see all three of them at E3 (the least likely is Sony, but they'd be stupid to miss out on the hype).
That's one ugly case. Looks like a crappy $20 ethernet hub.
Not that we should expect anything innovative from Redmond.
Looks like a dumb cable modem.
macbot3000: Figuring it's a fan created photoshopped image and not the real xbox2...maybe the real one will look as good as the Apple Pippin.
macbot3000: Figuring it's a fan created photoshopped image and not the real xbox2...maybe the real one will look as good as the Apple Pippin.
"That's one ugly case. Looks like a crappy $20 ethernet hub. Not that we should expect anything innovative from Redmond."
Uh, it's an "artist's rendering", not anything official.
I wasn't sure if you meant the official design wouldn't be any better, or if you thought that *was* the official design.
No doubt the official design will be much worse. Remember how cool some of the fake Xbox mockups were? And then the system comes out and it's just this big black ugly box. It was a pretty anti-climactic unveiling.
Uh the big black ugly box was way cooler than the piece of crap box that the playstation 2 came in so I don't know what you are talking about.
I think everyone needs to buy into Microsoft and then dump once XBox 2 has sold a few million.
Didn't MSoft come out and say something like "tell us when and where the PS3 announcement is, and we will be there with Xbox2"?
that logo reminds me of the old tech tv logo.
Quark
Say what you may about the capabilities of each system (Sony vs MS consoles) but goodness gracious, you really think the huge XBox box looks better designed asthetically than the PS2 (not the latest one but the original?). The thing is horrible looking.
PS3 is rumored to have better technological capabilities and the Revolution is supposedly gonna have equal or better technology than the Xbox 2 but with unique gameplay capabilities. I don't see Microsoft's advantage here, except for maybe a rumored earlier release. but this might work against them as in the case of the Dreamcast. PS2 pulled it off because the PS1 was so popular and thought to be cool. The Xbox doesn't have the same popularity as the PS2 (and in many parts of the world, like in japan, Gamecube aeven has better name recognition). It will die like the Dreamcast.
I guess what I am trying to say is Xbox didn't make MS any money, and neither does it seem that Xbox 2 will. Xbox 2 might be MS's exit out of the video game console market.
hmmm, playstation3, xbox2, where is the nintendo5 atom? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
mmm Halo 3
"Xbox 2 might be MS's exit out of the video game console market."
Armen? You're dumb.
not bad eh?
logo that is
XBOX2 is gonna murder ps3 or the next nintendo. Ninitendo was saying gamecube was going to b amazing, and every1 figured it wud b good, but it doesnt have anything on the N64, even the SNES was better, and the ps3, well sony didnt really change anytin betweem the ps1 and ps2, they just upgraded graphics, on top o that the ps2 was givin a 56k modem, the slowest thing known to man, so in conclusion, Msoft good, other dudes, bad
All right listen up there was a guy earler that said that the xbox next was was a way for ms to exit the videogame councel market, well you are so wrong the xbox was a good entry for microsoft and even though the first two years were rough for the branch, they still pulled away with a profit in the last two years and clearly blew away the Ps2 and GC. look at the sails in the us the xbox won 3 years in a row. Now with the next xbox they will domminate us and japan because of there exclusive games that the japanese just have to buy and they alredy dominate europe and other reagons of the world so the next xbox will just further xbox and ms into the videogame councel market.
YEAH SUCK IT xbox kicks a$$ nooka
I think that the xbox 2 has a lot to prove. I was a huge fan of ps1 and decided to go to xbox becuase of a recommendation that they had more mature titles. I think what will make or break the xbox2 is the games and how quick they come out. If there is not a huge buzz on proprietary games when the xbox2 launches I will wait and get the ps3. I really miss the GTA series and gran tourismo. Xbox2 better come hardcore with exclusive game titles or I'm not intersted
This just struck me.
Doesnt that logo look like this
>3
Greater than the Playstation 3?
You Can Grab Your Comments About The Look On The New Xbox And Shuff Them Up Your Asses. You'll Be Holding And Playing One Of Those When It Comes Out I Bet Ya. So Stop Talking Your Crap Right Now Before I Wipe My Ass With Your Damn tongue And Your Lips Would Kiss My Ass With Them Sh**s And Stop Talking.
FrozenNightmare = correct! this was Microsoft's first entry into the game console market. what we have to realise is the sucsess it had (more so recently) with such competition. Now the only country i can think of that has ps3 more popular is the Japanese market. this is probably due to the fact that they want to keep their economy strong by buying into their countries company's. I believe that this is not good enough for playstation and they will find it very hard to enter their next gen console anywhere but in japan.
Microsoft also has the backing of its huge software sucess, mainy to mention the new XNA which combines both the development of PC and xbox to allow things such as the ability to be playing an xbox on live against a person playing the same game on PC. Like the current xbox the next xbox will be designed with the future in mind with great features such as the newly anounced GUIDE (see keynote for GDC) which for me brings me to the odds of an xbox 2 instead of a PS3 10000000 to 1. PS2's "other capabilities such as online were shit, and i believe that PS3 will be little or no difference as all it has focused on is hardware specs (which for me arnt even great) and not the connection of Software Hardware and services (see GDC), inwhich microsoft are so good at.
So to all of you PS3 fanboys have a look at the future for PS3 and its lack of features such as XNA and maybe you too like millions other will realise the power of XBOX 2 and pick up the ABXY controller. (either that or go live in japan where as you wont feel quite largly left out.
You're caring way too much about what it looks like. They'll probably make it even more marketable and have dozens of common mods so you can make your own Xbox, but that's just a thought, it seems to be the new "in" thing. -Like what Scion is doing.
The good thing about xbox 360 is Halo 2.5,and Halo 3 are going to be on it.
Halo 3 is going to kick ass