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- HBO's Louis Wu has collected up news articles and reviews and posted them, excepting the oft-repeated figure of $125M in sales on the first day.
- Joyride has pictures up of the Drone action figure, expected in January 2005. A company that does work for Joyride leaked the original image of the drone. Thanks HBO.
- The Xbox 2, according to The Inquirer, is rumored come in three flavors; a cheap version without a hard drive, a standard edition, and a media center PC edition. The first two are expected out next fall, the last in the fall of 2006. Penny Arcade today has Tycho's commentary on that rumor as does the comic, while Eurogamer has more details on the Xbox 2's ATI graphics chipset.
- Rapture at cooked gamers likens the unlockable multiplayer level, Foundation, to the return of Thunderdome from Marathon 2.
Read them in good health.
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rapture@cookedg...
Wow. You just quoted The Inq
Wow. You just quoted The Inquirer. Heh.
I really hope that the XBOX 2 owns my living room when it is released. The Windows XP Media Center Edition software is getting better every 6 months. Dual tuner support just happened. And, they just got HD recording incorporated, although it is only for over-the-air broadcasts. If they would record HD from a cable or satellite signal, I would already own one.
I would pay close to $1000 for an XBOX 2 media center PC.
narcogen
Almost
I don't know that I'd go quite that far. To me, having a single device replace many is only worth it if my apartment is REALLY small, or if it is cheaper to buy one device. So if an Xbox 2 is my game console, my tv tuner, my PVR and my DVD player, that's great-- but I wouldn't want to pay more for that than a combination of separate devices. And you can get those devices, separately, for under $1000 (the PVR depends on what you use, I suppose. But right now my current Xbox is a console and DVD player for only $150. So I'm not sure that adding PVR capabilities alone is worth $850. Perhaps $400-$500 more.
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Rampant for over five years.