Bill Gates to Announce “Something” at CES Next Week
By Stephany on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 at 10:45 AM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Gamer Life, Games, Games Industry, Hardware, Microsoft, Microsoft
Supposedly, Bill Gates is going to make an “important announcement” regarding the Xbox 360 at next week’s CES show in Las Vegas. According to speculation from the Seattle Times, it might be an announcement regarding yet another Xbox 360 SKU with built-in HD-DVD playback.
“Microsoft may be preparing to license the Xbox gaming platform to consumer-electronics companies,” says Seattle Times columnist Brier Dudley. “In particular, Microsoft could work with Toshiba to develop a digital video recorder with a hard-drive, high-definition HD-DVD drive and Xbox gaming capabilities. They’re already allied against Sony and other backers of the Blu-ray DVD format, and Toshiba could help Xbox finally penetrate the Japanese market.” He goes on to say that “Microsoft could also make a splash by announcing plans to give the Xbox 360 an internal HD-DVD drive, putting it on par with Sony’s PlayStation 3 that has a built-in Blu-ray drive.”
This is just speculation of course, he could really be announcing his plans for world domination or his being nominated as the GOP candidate for President. Either way, we will just have to wait until next week when the CES show goes into full swing in Sin City.
Thanks: CVG
Hmm…could it finally be IPTV? It was supposed to come out late 2007, but I still can’t watch my shows off my Xbox 360!
Hey Bill if your listening, How about a free upgrade to the Hard drive to at least 100 gigabytes
Just what we need, a 3rd party xbox that costs $600.
itl be another xbox, and u xbox owners will be raving and ul all but ANOTHER version of a cheaply built machine- and uv all still got the gall to mention the price of ps3s even tho uv probably all bought 2 or 3 xboxes due to their rubbish quality! microshaft are takin the piss out of u all worse than sony ever has out of their following, but ur all too “we love u bill” to realise it! what a cunt, richest man in the world and he still campaigns for the normal average joe to part with their money to feed africa- the fuckin hypocrite!
This will be what? The 8th or 9th SKU so far?
gotta collect ‘em all!
O god will the HD guys leave our game systems alone! At least we have a choice with Xbox unlike yknow Sony who is desperate not to be a 2 time loser in format wars.
@ Kareem, sony is not even a first time loser
how can they be a second, i think you mean MS, is going to be 0 for 2 it’s ok, rest your mind and you may come up with intelligent thought, seems doubtful though
Betamax is still used by tv studios all over the world, and minidisc is used by radio stations all over the world, what you fanboys don’t understand is that there is a market for everything
Warner have just gone Bluray exclusive so if he might be announcing a BluRay add on for the 360
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Warner/Breaking:_Warner_Goes_Blu-ray_Exclusive/1325
hd-dvd is pretty much dead now after Warner pull the blu-ray stunt. I hope is not the new integrated hd-dvd xbox 360. If this is true, xbox 360 long term strategy could have a serious problem.
Hahaha, it’ll be a blu-ray xbox 360…
or it’ll be an xbox 360 hdd with a resonable price, i mean wtf omg hax0rz.
Well the only 360 announcement so far has been IP TV….which is what they announced last year