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The Box is Coming

by Maarten Goldstein, Nov 05, 2001 6:53am PST

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The New York Times has an article about Microsoft's foray into the $20 billion console market with the Xbox, and how they got there. In other Xbox news, Team Xbox has the commercials which aired during the World Series game last night. Thanks HomeLAN.

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What a complete waste of fucking money. 20 BILLION?!? Dear god... Couldn't that go to something useful?

Nov 05, 2001 11:20am PST

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What a complete waste of fucking money. 20 BILLION?!? Dear god... Couldn't that go to something useful? ... : unixwhore
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  er, however much they put into marketing. Its obviously not 20 billion :) : unixwhore
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    they are only spending 500 mil on marketing. : jedi_27
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      Only 500mil eh? ONLY!? : unixwhore
      
      yeah, only. that does sound pretty dumb : jedi_27

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By: hi-c x Show Full Post

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Oh, does half a bil in advertising get you some free press, too? Oh, is Reuters reporting today that Microsoft "could lose as much as $1 billion on its new Xbox video game console before breaking even in fiscal 2004"?

Well, now the Bush admin's deal with Redmond on the antitrust case begins to look a little more like one of the administration's freebies to big biz. Nice to know Microsoft can break the law and get taken care of by its friends in Washington. This sets a good example for other criminals: first, give a lot of money to politicians.

Nov 05, 2001 4:13pm PST

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Oh, does half a bil in advertising get you some free press, too? Oh, is Reuters reporting today that Mic... : hi-c
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- All you have to is ask sony.. The first question at least. : Bob Jones

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http://www.adreview.com/media/halo.ram

Halo commercial.

Nov 05, 2001 2:20pm PST

http://www.adreview.com/media/halo.ram Halo commercial. : Stormrider

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By: Bali x Show Full Post

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Does anyone like the controller? I thought it was terrible. Big and bulky, yet cramped w/buttons and joysticks.

Nov 05, 2001 2:03pm PST

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Does anyone like the controller? I thought it was terrible. Big and bulky, yet cramped w/buttons and jo... : Bali
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- not to sound like a FANBOY. But I actually like it. I think the buttons feel awesome and the analog pa... : jedi_27

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I don't know if I'm prepared to spend my hard earned $500 on a frozen computer just yet....the particular games being released for it at launch don't seem to be any sort of effort to really differentiate it from the big two.

Nov 05, 2001 11:37am PST

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I don't know if I'm prepared to spend my hard earned $500 on a frozen computer just yet....the particular... : Evangelion
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  i think you are almost 100% right. HALO is the only game I really want to play. There does not seem to... : jedi_27
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    I'm going to wait on the Game Cube, too. Nintendo's lineup of games is geared for the younger market, an... : Evangelion
    - PS2, home of MGS2 and GTA3, along with GT3 : jedi_27

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By: cannonfodder x Show Full Post

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20 billion?! I read today in the newspaper that it was 6 billion (GAMES ONLY not other education software.....)

Nov 05, 2001 12:19pm PST

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20 billion?! I read today in the newspaper that it was 6 billion (GAMES ONLY not other education software... : cannonfodder
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- I almost wonder if they're counting the cost of parts manufactured for the actual systems/games?? : Evangelion

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http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.asp?Feed=RTR&Date=20011105&ID=1198527&Symbol=US:MSFT

Nov 05, 2001 12:18pm PST

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.asp?Feed=RTR&Date=20011105&ID=1198527&Symbol=US:MSFT : TheOccifer

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im 100% sure that i could have done a better job with the in store demo kiosk thing and the comercials. sad really. although im not sure i could set up ahuge xbox events.. that might be out of my league. never done anything liek that before.

Nov 05, 2001 11:05am PST

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im 100% sure that i could have done a better job with the in store demo kiosk thing and the comercials. ... : ease_one
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- no joke. that KIOSK is pure suckage. Thank gosh they sent out copies of HALO to BABBAGES which also in... : jedi_27

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By: deucy x Show Full Post

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halo in 10 days daaamn,can't wait to play that mofo!

Nov 05, 2001 8:03am PST

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halo in 10 days daaamn,can't wait to play that mofo! : deucy
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- I have the 17th reserved. :) : Dread Pirate Roberts
- I actually got to play the game again today. This time I checked out the MULTI and drove the WARHOG aro... : jedi_27

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I saw one of the commercials. I thought it was pretty good, as far as teasers go. The shit going on inside that sphere was interesting.

Nov 05, 2001 10:48am PST

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I saw one of the commercials. I thought it was pretty good, as far as teasers go. The shit going on insid... : jvox
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- the way the X appeared at the end was also pretty cool. But I think they could have done better. Showi... : jedi_27

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yeah, seeing comercials for games that dont show games gets me really stoked to spend more than $300 on games

Nov 05, 2001 11:02am PST

yeah, seeing comercials for games that dont show games gets me really stoked to spend more than $300 on g... : ease_one

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By: nomaad x Show Full Post

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It's a little weird that they are running teasers not two weeks before the system itself is launched. They should be heavily into promoting the machine itself, the 'arousal of interest' thing should have been done by September.

Nov 05, 2001 9:21am PST

It's a little weird that they are running teasers not two weeks before the system itself is launched. The... : nomaad

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the new commercials = the green ball that goes pop-pop?

ugh. suck. the xbox commercials are getting worse.

Nov 05, 2001 6:58am PST

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the new commercials = the green ball that goes pop-pop? ugh. suck. the xbox commercials are getting wo... : dodob
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- and i wonder what happened to the first set of commercials - black and white old man talking over screen... : dodob
- i dunno, they're teasers and thats what they did.. didn't reveal much but let the general population be ... : chillin

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By: s3taanbomb x Show Full Post

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20 billion? Damn, that is 3 times as large as I guessed.

Nov 05, 2001 7:20am PST

20 billion? Damn, that is 3 times as large as I guessed. : s3taanbomb

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yawn

Nov 05, 2001 7:02am PST

yawn : ColonBlow