Xbox 2 To Be Announced On January 5?

KingFishKingFish
edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates has been confirmed as the pre-show keynote speaker at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. According to media reports, Gates could bring a late Christmas gift to Las Vegas: A new Xbox.
The rumor mill is in full swing. With the announcement of Bill Gates' appearance, the video gaming community is convinced that Microsoft will reveal one of its best kept secrets at the upcoming CES. It is not unusual for Gates to deliver the pre-show keynote at CES - he has done so in every year since 2000. However, Gates always has shown personal interest the Xbox and announced the first generation box on January, 6 - during his keynote at CES 2001. Gates' official outline of his keynote for 2005 says to "expect the unexpected". Game news site Gamesindustry.biz speculates that this could include the Xbox 2, which was "originally rumored to be planned for the Game Developer's Conference earlier this year." Details of the features of the Xbox 2 have been discussed for some time on the Internet. While Microsoft has not confirmed any specs so far, the game console will be equipped with an ATI-designed graphics chip, code-named R500. The GPU is said to be clocked at more than 500 MHz, 10 MByte integrated DRAM, and support for a super of Direct 3D 9 set. The peak pixel fill rate is rumors to achieve 4+ Giga Pixels per second (16 Giga Samples per second with 4× antialiasing. The peak triangle rate is more than 500 million triangles per second, according to documents circulated on the Internet.
Source: Tom's Hardware Guide

Comments

  • JustinJustin Atlanta
    edited October 2004
    I was loking at some of the screenies fro Oblivion on the Next Box, they look pretty sweet. I think we will all be in for a treat.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    "Rumored to be planned" - this media hype ambiguity is hilarious sometimes.....
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2004
    And who is going to buy their kid a several hundred dollar right AFTER Christmas?? Seriously thats like the WORST time to introduce something like that. I know that and I am not even in Marketing or know the first thing about it. I would hope all they will be saying are specs and that it will be out in like 10 months for next Christmas.
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    I think they're just going to *announce* it.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    So then this is an .... announcement of the announcement... :wtf:

    By virtue of this announcement, hasn't it been........ announced? :wtf:

    /me drowns in a pool of corporate idiocy
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    I was thinking the same thing, prime.
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