Entirely because I suck, Richard Smith's Xbox diary is a week late. You may remember back when GameCube from Nintendo was only available overseas Richard grabbed one up early and put together his impressions. Well of course with the launch of the XBox by Microsoft in the US here first there wasnt quite the demand for a similar article for MS's console. But at any rate keeping the promise to give Xbox a diary as well, here is Richard's piece. If you're really in the browsing mood, it may be interesting to go back and check out Jason's Consoles 2001 article which evaluated the known information about the XBox and GameCube before they were released.