NEWS - Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Xbox 2 To Be Smaller and Simpler
October 05, 2004 - Microsoft’s Peter Moore was quoted in the Nikkei Business Express saying that the Xbox 2’s smaller size will turn on Japanese consumers: In the interview, Moore said that Microsoft understands why its console had won only a tiny sliver of market share in Japan even as the company’s US market share rose to 33 percent as of June. One reason, Moore said, was that the large size of the console was unappealing to Japanese consumers. So Microsoft plans to make the so-called Xbox Next considerably smaller, with a more simplistic design. "We won’t repeat the same mistake," Moore said. "The video game business doesn’t end in one generation."Source: http://ve3d.ign.com
