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March 10, 2000

X-Box announced
Posted by @ 3:06 PM, EST
It is now official, MS’s X-Box is real.
Head over to http://www.xbox.com/ for more info.







Name:Jun
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Comment: Yup I agree with u all that X-Box SUCKS big time!!




Name:Iron Curtain
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Comment: The scary thing about Microsoft is that they know exactly what they're doing, and that they acually have a chance, let alone lady luck on Bill's side. Remember that in the early days of National Socialism (a.k.a. Nazism), nobody took the Nazis seriously. They were laughed at. We should take Microsoft seriously, for they could become like their neighbors across the street(i.e. Nintendo)!




Name:Irvin
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Comment: I am always supporting the one who deserves to be supported.This happens to be ofcourse SONY.




Name:Irvin
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Comment: Thank you for responding




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Comment: Irvin: Thanks for the response. I don't think there's ANY WAY that Nintendo, Sega or Sony will be threatened to close their business and games by the presence of Microsoft or the X-Box. People like yourself, for example, will keep supporting Sony right? I will as well as all the other companies. Also remember that not EVERY developer will be going to X-box. If it is really successful, sure it might have the market share that Sony now holds but there's plenty of room in this industry for 4. That's what I believe anyway.

P.S.-There are laws that forbid successful businesses to monopolize. That's why Bill was taken to court about his browser included in Windows and lost.




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Comment: XXXXX XXX XXXXXXXX XXX !!! X




Name:Kituka
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Comment: Cool dude (Aaron), we're done. As for the guy impersonating you, I say we get on his case.




Name:The real Aaron
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Comment: If you have the same name as me thats fine but if your impersonating me well thats just stupid. Kituka I didn't say any of that stuff it's over i'm done.




Name:Irvin
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Comment: Chaborf you dont understand what bill is trying to do.He is trying to monopolize his console so he will be the only one who sells.If that happens Sony Sega and Nintendo will be out of the game living Microsoft the dominate leader.MS will ne the only one who has a console.That means no competition.No competition means no gaming evolution.His a "Hitler" indeed.Conquer the global comsumers and destroy the other companies.He is using the Nitse theory.The stronger eliminates the weaker.




Name:Irvin
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Comment: I was trying to say that being smart doesnt make you remarkable person.People say Bill is smart(e,t.c Chaborf ).So what?And whoever you were you dont seem to understand what i was trying to say.




Name:Aaron
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Comment: Ok 1 LAST THING!!!!! and hopefully the last F&%$ing thang', Mr. K.I.T.U.K.A. I dont need your balls or your hard to find pe&*s, Ive got one of my own(SURPRISED)dont be!!!!!
Me and my most sacred member r doin fine and WE r REALLY!! REALLY!! getting annoyed!
Look at u, u filthy cum eatin' monster u should really be ashamed of your bad table manners!
As for this console "ISSUE" well go f' some hot air against your mamma's infintesmillay small behind.
(no your dad should have a piece of the action, let him have the left overs!!!!)
:) THE END




Name:Aaron
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Comment: Thank You Know Name I'm glade you shared that with all of us.




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Comment: Aaron, um you ain't funny.




Name:Aaron
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Comment: Hey Kituka I'm stopping this right now because I am the bigger man and I mean that in more ways than one and I knew I could make you come down to my level. For people that think Microsoft should be able to come into the gaming console market because Sony did it I have this to say. Sony was and is an electric appliance maker they make TV's, stereo's, VCR's ect. Microsoft makes software for windows based PC's they are going to buy third party equipment and put it together to make the x-box just like a PC witch it is. Sony made the stuff for PSX and PS2. I wouldn't mind much if microsoft said they were going to start to make games for Sony, Nintendo and Sega but they think they can come in blow smoke up everybody's a$$'s and be the top dogs in gaming consoles well I don't think so. Oh yeah when I talk sh*t it's funny it's not F' this F' that.




Name:Kituka
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Comment: Hey, whoever's writing using my name really ought to cut it out and act like a grown-up. If there was ever a truly heterosexual male it's me- I LOVE chicks with breasts, in-shape asses, and everything in between. And they like everything on me.




Name:Kituka
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Comment: Alright, Aaron, since I see you can't talk on a professional level, I'll just come down to your level of thinking and speaking: you motherf*cking son of a bitch, go suck on Ken Kutaragi's chocolate/salty balls. I know you'ld like that, you slut-f*cking stupid piece of uneducated horse-anus sh*t. Yea, I'm talking to you, stupid son of a bitch. Get your PS2 with it's f*cking 25 million polygons per second, glitches, and Sony namebrand. If I get one, I'd hit you with it so damn hard I'd send your f*cking head flying up the nearest person's ass. See, it's not difficult to speak vulgarly? Anybody can do it. The real difficulty is in speaking clearly though angered by idiots like yourself.




Name:Kituka
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Comment: ok guys im gay and so what?!!? Just what "anonymous" pointed out u just gotta give guys like me a shot, u know a shot. i'm just so sick and tired of "straights" making this whole gay thing such a big "ISSUE". I mean lets face it the "play"station, (self explanatory)unfortunately none of u idiot virgins have ever realized why the console was INVENTED. CUM ON!!!!




Name:Chaborf
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Comment: Ok Trickster....then don't buy it. I believe more competition is GREAT! The better games become, the harder other developers have to try to top them. Bill Gates has not offended me personally, so I could give a sh!t less about his business practices(although I probably should). As long as the X-box has great developer support, hell yea I'll throw my money right in Bill's face! Here!! Take it, gimmie gimmie gimmie!!! Sony jumped right into the gaming market, why can't Microsoft? Look at all the great games we have now for our PSX and eventually for the PS2. I'm giving X-box a shot.....hell I once paid $800 for a Jaguar(yea I know). Flame me to your desire!!




Name:Trikster
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Comment: OK all you guys who think Bill Gates is so hard-working and generous? BUllshit...he stold DOS from his best friend!!! That friend went on to form Apple Computers...check into it. ONe of the first things I learned in Ccomputer science. 2nd of all, he onyl donates money to get a tax break. Don't any of you people realize that he is basically buying all the 3rd party developers? And the X-box is nothing but a glorified PC...next year watch and see. It uses an Intel Pentium 3, Nvidia chip...come on, I could put all that in my PC! Could I put an Emotion Engine in my PC? NO! Why, because SOny worked their ass off for 10 years in R&D to make it. Bill Gates is nothing but a liar and a stealer...He's blowing smoke to distract would-be PS2 buyers, and it looks like it's working. I've compared the specs, and the PS2 matched most, except for ram and sound chip. SO tell me how the hell the X-box could do 100 million polys with effects on? It can't and you'll find out next year. Bill Gates is bullshit, and I will not line his pockets with money. MOst of the people I talk to agree with me, and will not purchase his products. They all feel is is invading a space he shouldn't and I totally agree.




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Comment: Irvin.....do you realize how much money Bill Gates has? Any idea? Upwards of 80 billion to his name. Mostly in stocks and such, but it's there. Pick up a fortune magazine sometime. He's not giving it away anytime soon! As for Hitler being smart, true....and so....what? He directed his energy and intelligence in f*cked-up views and ways. He manipulated a lot of people. What has this got to do with gaming and the X-box? Nada! Let me rephrase it: "Bill Gates is not stupid." He knows what he's doing, and if he doesn't, he'll hire someone who does.
Another thing: why all the name calling(sss,Jimfromshep)? Growup a bit.




Name:Aaron
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Comment: I may be the antichrist but at least I'm not an uncle fu*king donkey c*m guzzling sh*t head like you that goes for you Kituka too. Another side note is the fact that the tech demos showcased during the announcement were NOT realtime as in the case of the PS2. They were all pre-rendered with the console's specs guiding the rendering process. I don't really care if the robot demo is only using 25% of the system's power, if it's not real-time, it's not using ANY power. That little side note is from psx2.com so eat it.




Name:Kituka
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Comment: Well, kitty cleared that up, didn't he Aaron? From your comment, I can directly infer that you have extremely low intelligence. How can I do this? Well, the fact that you have to refer to constant obscenities that attain nothing in the end. Yea, I'm going to hell, so what? "Suck Bill Gate's #$%@?" Naaaaaa, I'll leave that to you.




Name:kitty
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Comment: ok aaron the "antichrist" apparently u havent ready the specs on
Billy's little MASTERPIECE ROBOT REALTIME DEMO. "Renderend at 60 fps, all of the
robots have their unique facial sublingualities, compromised of approximately
20 mill triangles each, three time fiber hair rendering, and this aint even touching the tip of the x box ice burg" gates concludes. This little piece was taken directly from Video Games.com




Name:Aaron
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Comment: Most people know that the x-box specs are just bull sh*t I mean the movie with the robot it's not even real time unlike the PS2 movies we see that look better then that stupid robot moving around. Kituka why don't you just go to hell and suck on satans("Bill Gates") balls if he has any.




Name:kakaka
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Comment: x-box has some pretty nice specs, but I go with ps2




Name:jimfromsh*t
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Comment: godam* kituka what the h*ll is up with your a*s shove some cu* into it c*m on!! hey and where r those nice square b*lls?




Name:Ivan the terrible!
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Comment: I think this little riddle goes by the Mech Warrior song, "if youve got da money then uve got the fans."
I have met the man and he is actually a real REALLY nice guy. I just wish u guys
, gals would take more consideration in respection such a high ranked evil spirit
I mean give me a BREAK this guy programmed a whole entire world from heck into
windows, WHAT DO U THINK HES GOIN TO DO TO THE X MACHINE
HOW ABOUT WHOVEVER RESISTS THAT EVIL BEAST WILL BE TAKEN APART AND THEN THE
RAPTURE BEGINS!!!!!!!!!




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Comment: o yeah i am the man!




Name:Kituka
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Comment: Ok, Ok, I admit I was a little on the esteemed side when I acclaimed the X-Box.
and I really didnt read the autobiography i made that part up, hehehe!
but i do know that x box is stands for 2 words, Eat my Balls!




Name:Irvin
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Comment: "Chaborf" Hitler was smart too.Extremely smart.Jimfromshep is right.If Bill did did give away 97% of everything he's ever earned to charities he wouldnt be able to control his business because every profit makes bigger his company.Actually he would lose everything because there are thousands of workers and creditors who need to get payied.Money wouldn be enoough to control such a big buisiness.3% left for controling such a buisiness?Get real.




Name:The Dude
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Comment: Microsoft Windows 2000 stable? I read that it was released with 64,000 documented bugs. You think the playstation 2 has problems, I hate to see the problems the x-box will have.




Name:Jimfromshep
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Comment: GODAMN KITUKA, SHUT THE F*CK UP!
Please, Bil gates giving away 97% percent of his profits? No way! You have been tricked, you idiot! Who said that? hmm, it was HIM in HIS autobiography, you retard! As if he would do that!
By the way, why don't you accept you're a hypocrit? Just head over to the X-BOX site and peddle your bullsh*t there!




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Comment: if billy gates actually has a life then the hell with u idiots and on with the show




Name:Chaborf
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Comment: I agree with Kituka....Gate's money didn't just land in his lap. He is extremely intelligent, plus he busted his ass since he was a kid all the way through his 20's and 30's. Seems most of you are just jealous. Relax! If the X-box comes out with great games, what else is there to know regarding your purchasing decision? More companies=more games=more competition=better games. If Bill sinks what he would consider "pocket change" into the X-box.....I will be one ecstatic gamer, as we should all be in for a hell of a show! Long live DC, PS2, X-Box, N64, Saturn, SNES, Gameboy, NEO Geo, Genesis and all others!!




Name:MeTaL=DeaTh
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Comment: X-Box will have it's niche market,but it won't top PS2 or Dolphin. Sega is the only console maker that would need to worry about X-Box if DC's main sales only come from the U.S.,since X-Box won't sell well in Japan. plus with the untrustworthy name of Microsoft among most younger people,the U.S. sales will not be as strong as a regular console would do...




Name:Kituka
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Comment: I'm sick and tired of hearing about "Gay Gates," "Mario Gates," "the fascist," etc. If he's really that money hungry, then why is it that when he dies he's giving 97% of everything he's ever earned to charities to help the unfortunate? Read his autobiography "The Road Ahead" for proof. This story was also on the news (CNN) some time ago. You guys whine about him possibly monopolizing the videogame market, yet what's Sony done?!?!?!? Are you that damn blind? You've probably heard the fable about the man who is looking for his horse, yet he's sitting on it- this fable taches about ignorance. Also, I don't want to hear all that "he's lying!!!!!" or "the bastard- to have the nerve to make something like that up!!!'" bull. He EARNED his position and his hard-earned money. Mr. Gates will be used as a role model for all business- oriented fields for a long, long time. He has my respect.




Name:Irvin
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Comment: Kituka Bill will succeed only because he has got the money not because he love what he is doing or because he is doing a great job.Unlike nintendo.Bill is a damn capitalist and facist.




Name:Irvin
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Comment: Hey Trikster you think the way i think.I agree a lot with you.And I wish Bill will die very soon from the day i heard about the x box.He is the richest man in the world and he wants to have more profit?By creating a super console so he will be the only one who sells in the video game arena?BILL LEAVE THE OTHERS CONTINUE WHAT THEY HAVE ALREADY STARTED.HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU WANT YOU SATAN(BILL) ?EVERYONE HAS A COMPUTER AND WITH YOUR DAMN MICROSOFT WINDOWS SHIT.




Name:sss
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Comment: By the way If any of you (katuka) bothered to read a little more carefully MS has a whopping 300 triangles not polys so looky looky is about 150 to 175 million polys. look at videogames.com...




Name:sss
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Comment: Go out get some air, do you guys want to end up like katuka? (25 year old virgin)I'm sure he'll have something like "I can get any girl I want," but we all know he is just some fat little couch potato trying to make himself look big. Personally I hope the best for all the new systems. If MS does well it will be the first time that an American company would rule over the Japanese dominated market. Anyhow it will be fun to see what's gonna happen.
By the way I'M rooting for PS2 just for ttt ang mgs2 and R.E4 and.........




Name:joekun
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Comment: Trikster, I don't get exactly what the difference is between what Gates is doing now, and what Sony did in '94. Back then everyone was saying that Sony was just trying to buy their way into a new market. Now they have, what, 70% of that market? And a lot of die hard fans such as yourself (and me as well). I would have to agree with Kituka. Gates is to be admired, and Mler, get yourself a copy of Windows 2000 Professional! Stable, stable, stable!! I just got my PS2 today, and it seems pretty cool (the games are lame though). If MS wants to come out with something cooler, more power to 'em.

1 more thing, as for x-box being made from "leftover parts from a pc", first you have to remember that MS doesn't make PCs. Then you have to consider that you're talking about a project funded by the richest man on the planet. If he sinks a lot of money into it, it WILL rock!




Name:Rickard
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Comment: I will buy a ps2, and if the x-box is growing BIG I will buy that one too.




Name:Mler
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Comment: If X-Box ends-up the best then I'd have to get it. That would be a real pain however. I get pissed-off enough with Microsoft when I am at the office, crashing my PC and loosing all my work. Are we now going to have to put-up with such rubbish when we are playing games at home? I hope not. I hope X-Box is just hype, so I don't have to get one!




Name:Kituka
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Comment: Well Trikster, you're only tricking yourself. X-Box makes PS2 look like crap, admit it. Just go to XBOX.com, game-online.com, videogames.com, gamefan.com, coremagazine.com, etc. fo proof. 300,000,000 polygons per second vs. 75,000,000. X-Box calculates 1,000,000,000,000 operations per second, pal........PS2 can't even touch this. One more thing- these are the specs that are available now. Microsoft has a whole year to tweek them to even crazier levels. Hell, don't believe the specs. You want to know why you don't want to believe the specs? You're scared, shaking, breaking into a sweat......all because you thought the PS2 would be all that. As I said before, Gates is to be admired, not hated. He worked his ass off to get to where he is, and is a great example of what can be accomplished when one has high ambitions an a lot of perseverance. If you dislike him for that,well........it shows you're an idiot. Go ahead, get your PS2....but know one thing- Sony has just got a HUGE problem in their quest for a complete videogame monopoly.




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Comment: yea I love bill gates, y'knowhatimsayin? Bring it on, big "G".....gimmie some console lovin! Haha!!




Name:The Trikster
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Comment: Pardon my French, but fuck the X-Box and fuck Bill Gates!! That little geek has to stick his nose in every single aspect of life, and now he has invaded our sacred console universe. Personally, I don't believe the specs. 100 million polys with all effects on?? Whatever. There is no way that it is that more advanced than the PS2. Sony worked on the Emotion Engine for 10 years, and the X-box is gonna be leftover parts from a PC. I refuse to believe it wil be that much better. Right now it's all smoke to distract the would-be PS2 buyers in the US. I work for a software retailer, and I vow I will not recommend the X-bos to anyone. I hope our company won't even carry it. It just pisses me off the Gates thinks he can buy his way into the market, and from all the developers, it seems that is exactly what he's done. DIE BILL GATES DIE!




Name:Iron Curtain
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Comment: Like the FF7 song, THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS! I guess that means that there are FOUR gaming systems to compete with each other! Is that too much?




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