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Originally posted by fugue_life
X-box and ps2 prices will probably drop further. I was following intels stock report (investment nerd) and they lost the contract for the xbox2 chips to IBM and there was a blurb about how the xbox2 is scheduled for release in Japan in June of next year and most likely sony will, keeping with the competiveness, most likely debute there PS3 in Japan around the same time. Of course this came from Business Weekly so I couldn't tell ya how reliable it is
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Nah, both MS and Sony have both said they plan to release new consoles sometime in 2005 with only Nintendo seeming to be ready to release a new system in 2004 already having contracts secured with IBM and ATI.
Regardless this will be a very short turnaround for what have been largely very succesful consoles for both MS and Sony, Microsoft having supplanted Nintendo in both Europe and the US as the No. 2 console maker, and this christmas promises to be very good to xbox and you still have Halo 2 coming in the first half of 2004.
Another note on the new Xbox, with them licensing IBM's chip technology they are going to be using 128-bit chips, which means no more x86 technology and they won't be backward compatible... something makes me think this will be a BIG deal to most people...