Xbox 2 discussion

**TuffEagle88** · 02-02-2004

I think that that article is a bunch of bs and an example of propaganda being produced by the anti-microsoft unholy alliance, or the AMUA as they prefer to be called. This article is just 1 example of how this unholy alliance made up of PoS2 fanboys and covenant forces are working to flood the minds of xboxaddicts with all sorts of nonsense and cause the xbox2 to lose support before it even hits the shelves. Its all a huge conspiracy. Just think about it, the next nintendo product will likely not be too big of a threat to the ps3, so with the xbox's following disunified, that lets sony continue to dominate the console industry. And you may ask how the covenant tie into this, well if there aren't any more Halo games after Halo2 they will be forgotten and when they really do invade Earth, we will be defenseless because people had grown tired of playing Halo and Halo2 after 5 years and have forgotten their combat skills.

Just think about it... Its all a massive conspiracy plot to let sony rule the console industry and then allow for the covenant to crush the human race once and for all.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

**nG-Punisher** · 02-02-2004

Originally posted by Rich-XBA
Let me just say this...don't believe anything you hear about the next Xbox. Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are in the building stages of the new systems and changes can be made to the design for quite some time ahead. With that said, each company will begin floating false rumors about their systems to give the competition a false sense of what is coming, so when the true systems hit, no one will have a major edge (unless they release very late). At this stage, I wouldn't believe anything I hear about the next Xbox, even if it comes direct from Microsoft. Let's just chill and not get so upset over rumors, because they are nothing but rumors.

What he said

**Blackpanthour** · 02-02-2004

ummm ya... I found this through gamespot.com. and i like th whole making a cheaper system wit cheaper parts, but i never thought that they would be taking out so many things to get that cheaper price. and i dun like the fact that XB next is waiting on PS2 info, to make their next box. that gives me the felling that they jus want to copy PS2, but nehow you read it and give me your opinions. Xbox Next outlook

**Dr_J** · 02-02-2004

Some of you people are freakin' stupid.

Do you believe everything you read online?

**Hero** · 02-02-2004

xbox is smart to wait IMO becuase they might make the same mistake that dreamcast did. they got thier product out first then sony came out with a much better system and that was the end of sega hardware.

if they wait..and sony puts a harddrive in then xbox will have no choice but to add one aswell.

or at least they should give us the option of adding our own harddrive to teh next xbox.

**themoosearmy** · 02-02-2004

MS would never make the next XBOX without the HDD, but then again, this console is about 1.5-2 years (potentially) from release and they are still in the design phase. They may remove the HDD, but then again they might be able to make games that take up less memory and/or have much higher capacity mem cards.

As for articles online, unless its from a major news source (wtf MercuryNews.com ??), I don't believe it.

Slowride · 02-03-2004

Originally posted by SPARTAN VI
Heh, I could almost care less. By 2005 I'll be in college, with a job, and with a gaming PC. If I have any spare cash, I might trade it for an Xbox and a PS3.

aaahhhh to be 18 again.....oh wait being 18 sucked. jk man enjoy it before it's over.

**anm8rjp** · 02-03-2004

Why not continue to put an 8GB drive in the next Xbox...
We all have an 8GB drive and I bet less than 5% of users have even filled up up halfway and if you have it must be with music. They could use the same model as the one we have currently.

Now, they should make an upgrade option. Similar to Xbox Music Mixer. For maybe around a price of $100 USD, you could purchase a "kit" that would include a 120 GB drive, slide it in, it would come with a disc that would upgrade or flash your system to give you advanced music ripping, pc file tranfer sharing, and PVR functionality. So the cost wouldn't increase the system unless you wanted advanced PVR functions.

I think the current 8GB drive would be plenty for 90% of users in the next Xbox. For those other 10% you could upgrade...

Just an idea... and just my opinions

**J Dub** · 02-03-2004

I think this is a bad idea. The hard drive is extremely important for the operation of the XBox. If you look at Sony, even, they have a hard drive for the PS2 now. So I think Sony will have a hard drive in the PS3 as well. MS should re-think this.

**levelzero** · 02-03-2004

I love internet rumors. Hey, I hear Apple is going to make a smaller Ipod......and it is only going to cost $99 bucks........

and we all know how that turned out.

**Peepers** · 02-03-2004

BS. Half the Xbox games on the market right now have to use the HD because the game saves are too big for memory cards. KOTOR, Morrowind GOTY, most other RPG's and some sports games.

Plus, without a HD, all the money for Xbox live went down the toilet. It will have a HD, if for no other reason than that the PS3 willl have one.

**mattgame** · 02-03-2004

Once again Peepers surfaces with the calm post of reason: the inly other thing I see is that they make it so we have to buy it seperately like the Ps2. However, I believe the PS3 is going to have it so they better because I am going with the system that has it.

**l Maximus l** · 02-03-2004

MS never goes backwards...expect the next XBox to be what the current XBox is but on steroids.

**Brutus** · 02-04-2004

Think about it. in two years they'll have another processor that will blow away the current G4's.

Microsoft knows what they're doing. THe Xbox next is more than likely going to be coming out in late '05 and how often do you guys trade in your gaming PC's? I mean, the Xbox is great, but it's already showing it's age with the differences between Invisible war: PC / Xbox. You know!?

As far as the hard drive goes. I believe they'll include it. Bungie would make a fit if not. And also all of us. But we'd pay more for one anyway. In Nonvember of '05, they'll blow us away with the goods! hahahaha!

**blackiee2002** · 02-04-2004

I seriously believed that they are considering not putting an Hd in the xenon because of costs and other stuff. but to risk not having it would be plain stupid. even if the released two versions, one with and one without, would that mean developers must develop for two different types of specs, one with hd and one without? i don't think so, developers have a lot on thier hands to begin with.

However too, they want money, an can't stand to lose so much so my thoughts are that, it will be a combination of the two, expect them to have an Hd preferable a low amount equal or less to the current xbox and have upgrades where you can buy and add bigger hd's to it.

That will sovle everyone's problem. reduce costs and we get what we want. that is the optimum solution i believe we can have between they and us

**Crazy Joe** · 02-04-2004

Originally posted by Blackpanthour
ummm ya... I found this through gamespot.com. and i like th whole making a cheaper system wit cheaper parts, but i never thought that they would be taking out so many things to get that cheaper price. and i dun like the fact that XB next is waiting on PS2 info, to make their next box. that gives me the felling that they jus want to copy PS2, but nehow you read it and give me your opinions. Xbox Next outlook

i don't think i've ever seen this before, someone commenting on a thread that is about an article and posting a link to the SAME article that is in the first post. weird.

**Viper87227** · 02-04-2004

If MS doesnt include I hard drive in the next xbox I am creating a MyDoom-C....MUAHAHAHAHHAHAH!

**CRAYMAN** · 02-04-2004

Originally posted by t_howell
There usually is truth to every rumor... .

No kidding, I heard someone say that you don't know what you're talking about.

**Blackpanthour** · 02-05-2004

Originally posted by Crazy Joe

i don't think i've ever seen this before, someone commenting on a thread that is about an article and posting a link to the SAME article that is in the first post. weird.

I didn't post my post here, i started a new post called Xbox next, and i guess xb addict jus put me in this post. but i did start a new thred. so dun think of me as being stupid cuz i neva inteded to put it in this post.

and by the way i dun belive nething in that news post thing, cuz between now and late 05, XB would prop change things, and new and better tech would be out, and they would have a lot of time to think about it. so i dun belive nething, not the good, not the bad, not the nething

**Casper** · 02-05-2004

Originally posted by Crazy Joe

i don't think i've ever seen this before, someone commenting on a thread that is about an article and posting a link to the SAME article that is in the first post. weird.

I merged his thread into here