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[RaySpencer]

if MS really wants to get into the portable game, this is what they HAVE to do, add a web browser with the multimedia (audio,video,& pictures) & a nice sized hdd. all of this for $300 or less & i'm sold.

which would be like the PSP ...except without the games no one plays, and with a HDD that everyone wants !

 

[Fusebox]

They're gonna have to pull out all stops to try and produce a bit of hardware comparable to the Godly PSP, but if anybody can do it MS can.

 

[puebla]

which would be like the PSP ...except without the games no one plays, and with a HDD that everyone wants !

EXACTLY!!

if the hdd is big enough, it'd be like a removable hdd that i could store all my rare 2pac joints & some porn.

xbla would be great cuz u could get the quirky games that seem to be working for the DS.

MS can't lose with something like this.

 

[soundwave05]

An "XBoy" would actually probably be aimed moreso at Apple's i-Pod ... you know it's gotta eat Microsoft execs up inside to see how successful that is, but MS could never create a standard MP3 player and have it be more popular than the i-Pod.

They'd have to include gaming and multimedia functionality to have a shot.

 

[Seventh Son]

* NEW*

The Micro$oft XtremeB0y

- play Halo in handheld-format!
- built-in instant messenger
- internet access
- take pictures with the in-built camera and send them to your friends via XTREME-Live
- add-ons coming soon..

 

[Kolgar]

Interesting prospect. Certainly, a Windows-compatible Xboy with the game-playing and convergence features of PSP would be a natural fit for all the millions of us who live and work with Windows-based PCs every day. Seems to me they're all set up for success.

Which is another reason I think Microsoft's going to find their way into all our living rooms one way or the other, too.

 

[Shogmaster]

I sketched this up right before leaving for CES. See if you guys can decipher all the features and functiuons:



I'm going out to dinner with my friends so you have about an hour and a half of making fun of me without me replying back. :lol

 

[Kiriku]

What could they do that the current handhelds don't?

Charge you for playing online?

 

[RaySpencer]

I sketched this up right before leaving for CES. See if you guys can decipher all the features and functiuons:



I'm going out to dinner with my friends so you have about an hour and a half of making fun of me without me replying back. :lol

i like how the left "stick" is a PSP style lame sliddy thing ...while the right one is an actual stick ...and for FPS that would work great really, the aiming is more important anyway !

i dunno, looks cool to me, i would buy it

 

[littlewig]

This defies MS primary reason for entering the console realm. How does making a handheld help them win the living rooms around the world?

 

[Kolgar]

This defies MS primary reason for entering the console realm. How does making a handheld help them win the living rooms around the world?

Connectivity, brotha!

 

[FiRez]

I sketched this up right before leaving for CES. See if you guys can decipher all the features and functiuons:



I'm going out to dinner with my friends so you have about an hour and a half of making fun of me without me replying back. :lol

The position of the right analog stick in very clever.
If this happens in the future I hope that is powerful enough to make a straight port of Halo:CE

 

[Odysseus]

I wonder how many times Microsoft will have to say "we have no interest in manufacturing a handheld gaming device" before people will believe they have no interest in manufacturing a handheld gaming device.

 

[RaySpencer]

I wonder how many times Microsoft will have to say "we have no interest in manufacturing a handheld gaming device" before people will believe they have no interest in manufacturing a handheld gaming device.

ahh...but speculating on things that arent true is what we do!!

 

[littlewig]

I wonder how many times Microsoft will have to say "we have no interest in manufacturing a handheld gaming device" before people will believe they have no interest in manufacturing a handheld gaming device.

Until they finally make one and it flops.

 

[jamesinclair]

Its brilliant. Theyll suceed in Japan where Sony fails.

 

[Shogmaster]

i like how the left "stick" is a PSP style lame sliddy thing ...while the right one is an actual stick ...and for FPS that would work great really, the aiming is more important anyway !

i dunno, looks cool to me, i would buy it

I need to take you around to my pitch meetings! :lol

The position of the right analog stick in very clever.
If this happens in the future I hope that is powerful enough to make a straight port of Halo:CE

Oh hellz no. That would be like 2010 at the earliest timeframe for such powerful portable hardware at that pricepoint! I'd be more than happy with 25% of Halo: CE in graphics, AI and physics but 75% of the gameplay in 2006/2007.

 

[AniHawk]

Today we had one of our regular customers (and friend of one of our employees) come in and say he had played the Xbox handheld. It was basically the S Controller with a screen in the middle. He also claimed he knew somebody whose brother worked it Microsoft and said Halo 3 would be out by the end of the year.

It's a good thing I wasn't near any large, blunt objects. I mean really, who just makes this stuff up?