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Microsoft Xboy?



Talk of a handheld gaming system from Microsoft is in the spotlight once again. Are 151 "Micromons" in gamers' future?



Rumors of Microsoft entering the portable gaming market have been reported in abundance for the past six months. However, when a globally respected news source such as MSNBC reports on such rumors, there's sure to be some substantial evidence to support them.

According to a report by MSNBC, Microsoft has progressed far enough along in discussions concerning the possibility of the company entering the portable gaming market (the fastest growing sector of the industry), that it has given the project a codename in "Xboy".

The article suggests that if all goes well with Xbox, Microsoft could enter the portable gaming market in 2002 or 2003, bringing to the table significant technological advances (read: 3D visuals) over Nintendo's upcoming Game Boy Advance, which is scheduled to appear in the US this summer.

The article is quick to point out, though, that Microsoft's main focus at this point and for the foreseeable future is Xbox. The company understands that it must establish a name for itself in the industry before attempting to enter multiple sectors of the market, and to do so, must make Xbox the system by which all others are judged.

Chief Xbox Officer, Robbie Bach, told MSNBC, "I'm focused on one thing and one thing only. If I take my eye off the Xbox mission for two seconds, I'll lose. I can think about [portable games] when I have time to think about those things."

Microsoft's competition in the handheld market, namely Nintendo, could be substantially more difficult to defeat than its main competition for Xbox, Sony. Nintendo owns 97% of the portable gaming market and has seen the sector grow from $216 million in 1998 to $618 million in 1999 thanks to the introduction of Pokemon. Figures for 2000 should be even more impressive.

That kind of increase is one any company would be foolish to ignore, and Microsoft, while focused on Xbox, is surely paying at least a shrapnel of attention to the portable gaming market. It will take more than superior technology to draw the masses to a new handheld, though. We just hope that that "more" isn't comparable to 151 colorful monsters.

Josh White
The pround owner of 0 colorful monsters.

copied from http://xbox.gamerweb.com/news/0101/040.asp

Shouldn't this be in the XBOX forum

no because it isn't an xbox it is something different dumbass made by microsoft DOes game boy go in the game cube catagory ? didn't think so

I still see many Xbox references so it should be.. since it would most likely be an extension of the Xbox and not its own system.. microsoft is weird. I'm going to vote the option that includes "DUMBASS"

I'll move it but leave the redirect.

Xbox still blows.

Wow, so Microsoft is planning on releasing an overpriced, 10 pound paperweight that frequently overheats and has a wide selection of awful games? Where do I sign up!?

I couldn't have said it better myself. If they actually made this system smaller than a trailer park, I'd be impressed.

http://www.iownjoo.com/imghost/comic-03.gif

I just thought it was appropriate somehow

You were wrong. A half-ass attempt at making fun of Penny-Arcade, when Penny-Arcade owns all.

Nintendo *owns* the handheld market, absolutely no question. Someone has to stop microsoft, either kill bill gates or try to knock out the HQ.... maybe both. All they do is send out pisspoor programming and hardware, and get away with it because they're tyranical marketers. They bump off the lower and climbing companies aggressively, steal their designs/ideas and refurnish them as 'theirs'. The evil must die.

:) www.fuckmicrosoft.com <- In this kind of situation, that place is holy.

People forget that the X-Box is big because it has a lot inside it. Unlike the PS2 and GC, there's a hard drive running in there.

X-Boy? WTF?

No Rurouni NO! If you have seen the inside of the Xbox, then you would know that it's big for no good damn reason. The Playstation 2 in it's current form could fit a hard drive inside, and it still wouldn't be any larger than it is now. Xbox is simply that, a big ass box. Having a hard drive doesn't have a damn thing to do with it. Many computers are smaller than the Xbox, which further proves my point. And they have hard drives, along with many other things.

It also has insufficient cooling.

BTW, it's big because M$ wants to blind you with that giant green logo :x

Holy shit, I hit the "Quote" button instead of "Edit". Delete Delete!! Oh well, uh...

This JiN-RaiDeN character seems to know what the hell he's talking about.

So you're agreeing with me? Insufficient cooling or not, it's bigger than it has to be. Piss poor design, there is no excuse for it.

I'm a PA fan.. night and I know Gabe, sadly enough.. but it's still a hilarious 'half-assed attempt'

I didn't find it very funny.

Yeah, I've cracked one open just to see how much space is in there. You can easily cram two more drives in.

My buddie's system kept overheating, so I 'modded' an extra fan into it.