Microsoft Xbox 360 Due In November, New Images Hit The Web

KingFishKingFish
edited May 2005 in Science & Tech
MTV, a launch partner of Microsoft for the Xbox 360 console, unveiled timeframe of availability of new games for the forthcoming Microsoft game machine, which are due in November. Also during the weekend a number of web-sites published photos of the game console itself as well as its controllers.
Ads currently broadcasted by MTV promise that a special feature dedicated to Xbox 360 to be shown on the 12th of May will include “trailers of the newest games that are due out in November for the new Xbox”, reports Gamespot web-site. The listing seems to bolster suspicions that the next Xbox will launch on the fourth anniversary of the original Xbox’s release in mid-November 2001. Nevertheless, in spite of the apparent phrasing of the MTV citation, Microsoft officials denied to comment on it presently.

“This year…we are going to ship this next Xbox,” Bill Gates is reported to have said during this year’s annual meeting of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in early May, 2005.

Meanwhile a number of web-sites published pictures of the Xbox 360 console as well as its controllers, including joystick and remote. The photo of the remote is blurry and the functions the device will do are unclear, though, it could be seen that the remote has a set of buttons common for CD or DVD players, “back” “display”, “end memo” as well as “Windows” buttons.

In a research note released to clients in mid-April, 2005, Goldman Sachs projected that Microsoft’s next Xbox console will go on sale in October or November, 2005, and claimed that the software giant may ship 3 million units already this year. In the first two weeks of sales more than a million of Microsoft Xbox consoles were sold in 2001 and the company said it aimed to ship up to 1.5 million of the Xbox machines totally in 2001.
Source: X-Bit Labs

Comments

  • SoLoSoLo DirtySouth, USA
    edited May 2005
    im wondering if xbox live will be get changed up abit when the new box rolls out? SoLo P
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    solo23 wrote:
    im wondering if xbox live will be get changed up abit when the new box rolls out? SoLo P

    I heard that there will be a free live service and a pay live service that includes more bells and whistles. All speculation until this thing rolls out of course.
  • Private_SnoballPrivate_Snoball Dover AFB, DE, USA
    edited May 2005
    Sounds like Microsoft really got the hang of this console business fast, I say good show to them. I don't play console games much, but if their launch release is impressive I may have to order one.

    Can't wait to hear more on it
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    I'm excited about it. I've always been a console gamer more than PC, so this is pretty spiffy to me. :)
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