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THE SPACE BOSS - 25 Jun 2004 01:54 GMT

(From the July issue of the official X-box magazine..)

NINTENDO'S XBOX 2?
It's been bandied about before, but momentum is growing behind the suggestion
that Nintendo is designing the architecture that will power the next Xbox.
Apparently Power PC powered G5 Macintoshes (of all things) are in circulation
to game developers working on next generation games. THe Power PC core in the
G5 - a version of which is the processing chip at the heart of the GameCube -
leads to speculation that Microsoft has turned some hardware design decisions
to the Japanese giant that has been taking a bath on it's non- handheld
hardware in recent years. Why would this make sense? It would help Nintendo
graciously bail out of the monstrously expensive console hardware market, while
still having a device it's intimately attatched to, plus it gives Microsoft
improved cachet in the tough to crack Japanese market as well as platform for
killer titles from Nintendo's still world beating game design studios. Win,
win, win, it seems.

"Obviously the truth is what's so. Not so obviously, it's also so what." -
WERNER ERHARD

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carlos' casa - 25 Jun 2004 02:39 GMT

"THE SPACE BOSS" <drsmith666@aol.com> wrote in message

> Blah blah blah troll bait.

Shouldn't you be molesting Will Robinson about now?

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Leon Dexter - 25 Jun 2004 05:57 GMT

> "THE SPACE BOSS" <drsmith666@aol.com> wrote in message
> > Blah blah blah troll bait.
>
> Shouldn't you be molesting Will Robinson about now?

Actually, that really was--word for word--in this month's Official Xbox
Magazine. It's just a rumour, and it was old by the time their magazine hit
the shelves, but it was in there.

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carlos' casa - 25 Jun 2004 14:44 GMT

> > "THE SPACE BOSS" <drsmith666@aol.com> wrote in message
> > > Blah blah blah troll bait.
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> Magazine. It's just a rumour, and it was old by the time their magazine hit
> the shelves, but it was in there.

Yes, but it was also put *here* to start some sh.t, and pure BS if you ask
me.

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Leon Dexter - 26 Jun 2004 04:05 GMT

"carlos' casa" <abuse@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:L_VCc.43

> Yes, but it was also put *here* to start some sh.t, and pure BS if you ask
> me.

Well, it didn't work. I don't see any sh.t. And it most likely is pure BS,
yes.

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carlos' casa - 26 Jun 2004 04:23 GMT

> "carlos' casa" <abuse@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:L_VCc.43
>
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Well, it didn't work. I don't see any sh.t. And it most likely is pure BS,
> yes.

Yeah, we got lucky.

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Grand Inquisitor - 25 Jun 2004 14:11 GMT

I seriously doubt any of this. Even if what's presented there is
technically true, I don't expect it to come to much. Microsoft has a
history of getting close to another company, talking about alliances,
licensing their technology, when really they just wanted technical
knowledge and the alliance is dropped at the last minute, and Microsoft
walks away with the company's technology.

In fact this has happened before with Nintendo and Atari, back in the
80s, when Atari was the big cheese and Nintendo was a relative newcomer.

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