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In alt.games.video.xbox HockeyTownUSA <magma@killspam.comcast.net> wrote:
> I'd be surprised if they weren't working on a slimmer, smaller, lighter
> model like PS2 did.
I think it's too late for such a thing. Assuming XBox360 launches this
october or so, that'd realistically give Xbox until 4th quarter next year
- at best - before the market is all but dried up. I know PSOnes were
still selling for a long time after PS2 launched, but I think that market
too basically dried up after the PS2 had been out for a year, and hit its
first price drop. Even then, PS2 was backwards compatible, so there was
more of a reason to squeeze out a few last PS1 games. If XBox360 isn't
backwards compatible, most people are just going to buy the new console
which forces them totally ignore the older Xbox games. (Not that this
will be that big of a deal - Xbox360's game lineup so far reads like the
Xbox's current lineup, incremented by 1.)
I also don't think it'd be financially smart to retool and rerelease the
XBox. Wouldn't that require Intel and nVidia to work on redesigning their
chips - both of which are a good 5 years old now? I'm not saying it's
impossible, but given the expense I can't see them being able to save that
much on manufacturing to make it a viable product - unless they don't mind
continuing to lose money on essentially a 5 year old product...