Despite recent assurances from Microsoft reps to the contrary, Wired News has an article up today speculating that unless you buy one of those bundles now, you may be shut out of getting an XBox this holiday season.
A Reuters story on News.com is citing that Toysrus.com and its partner Amazon.com have apparently sold out of the $499 XBox bundles it began offering this Tuesday-- and only took 30 minutes to do so. No word on how many units were sold.
In an article at News.com, the CEO of Nvidia, Jen-Hsun Huang, about the future of his company in a number of markets, including the gaming market. Nvidia manufactures the video gear in Microsoft's XBox as well as accelerator cards for use in PCs and workstations. Huang is very optimistic about the technical advantages the XBox platform offers. Asked about the impact of the XBox on his company's finances in a volatile gaming market, Huang said:
Harry posted on our hotline server that xbox.ign.com has an article up stating that the preview code for Microsoft's networking service is now available for developers to download. No word on when this will actually make it into games, but it's progress:
DirkDaring pointed out in our forum, along with Louis Wu at Halo.bungie.org, that an unnamed developer from an unnamed company who claims to know what he's talking about when it comes to the XBox has this to say in an article titled Inner Xbox Secrets Revealed at The Inquirer about Microsoft's upcoming console machine and its performance at E3:
I don't know if this is a local thing or not, but here in southern California, the Software Etc. has around 30-40 game boxes for various XBox titles, including HALO. Although these aren't the boxes that will hit the shelves in November, they are still cool to check out.
According to a recent press release, the XBox's production is slowing down a bit. The reason, a flaw in Intel Corp.'s design of the motherboard, or main computer component of the Xbox, may set production of the much-hyped new game player back by three to four weeks . However, the console will still launch on November 8. Microsoft spokesman James Bernard has denied these claims, saying there's absolutely no problem with the design of Intel's motherboard.
Well, in a (small) reversal of the trend that Microsoft has been touting since the announcement of their next generation console machine, one developer is shutting down their Xbox development operations in order to focus on... get this.... PC games.According to this story on xbox.ign.com, Funcom, the developers of the massively multiplayer game Anarchy Online have ceased their console operations.
