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"Microsoft you twonks"

From IGN's specs for the Xbox:

Broadband Enabled: Yes
Modem Enabled: No

What??? No modem??? Are you mad? They're effectively cutting off nearly the whole Internet market in Blighty! Idiots!

Logan wrote:
Incorrect! The article being referred to is for the AMERICAN Xbox... which has Broadband internet adaptor, AND HDD in the box.

WRONG: I quote:

Sandy Duncan, Vice President, Xbox Europe

"On March 14th , the future of video games will be available to European gamers and their perception of gaming will change forever," said Sandy Duncan, Vice President, Xbox Europe. "Xbox games out-perform the competition and will deliver some of the most powerful gaming experiences ever, where the lines between fantasy and reality blur like never before. It's a great time to be a game player.

"Leading with an aggressive introductory price was important to us, since one of our goals with Xbox is to grow the market for video games," said Duncan. "At £299 Xbox is fantastic value for gamers. Xbox is clearly more powerful than any other console, now or in the near future, and includes features, such as a built-in hard drive and BROADBAND ADAPTER, which other consoles only offer as expensive add-ons. The tremendous in-box value offered by Xbox will help grow the installed Xbox base more quickly. This will result in larger sales for 3rd party publisher and retail partners as well as our 1st party games publishing division.


The UK version DOES come with a broadband adapter... I rest my case!!!

The GC's are seperate, the PS2's are combined.

GC

Broadband AND modem adapters

Yes, it is remotely useful for games. The PS2 has a MPEG-2 decoder built into the emotion engine which means it can decode streaming MPEG-2s (DVDs) with no load on the processor. This has fantastic possibilities for games. The DVD playback capability was secondard but very easy and cheap to include.

Tyla wrote:
> Tellah wrote:
> So let me get this right.

The UK X-Box isn't released
> with a broadband
> adaptor / modem or DVD compatibility out of the box.
Is
> this right?

Correct!! Though it does have the Broadband adapter (which is OK
> if you are one of those lucky people with a Bb connection at home!!)


Incorrect! The article being referred to is for the AMERICAN Xbox... which has Broadband internet adaptor, AND HDD in the box.

The UK one will have a modem.

Neither will have DVD out of the box, but this can be bought in a pack in the same way a PS2 HDD/modem can be bought as an upgrade.

After all, it's not remotely useful for GAMES.

These companies have online strategies so it's doubtful they will be different.

I have never heard any reports of this. The US xbox will launch with a broadband modem. We should assume that the UK xbox's will have a broadband modem also.

Tellah wrote:
> So let me get this right.

The UK X-Box isn't released with a broadband
> adaptor / modem or DVD compatibility out of the box.
Is this right?

Correct!! Though it does have the Broadband adapter (which is OK if you are one of those lucky people with a Bb connection at home!!)

So let me get this right.

The UK X-Box isn't released with a broadband adaptor / modem or DVD compatibility out of the box.
Is this right?

Turbonutter wrote:
> Either this christmas or February.

PSW has "semi-official" news that it'll be Spring 2002.

The reason they give is that the manual for THPS3 states that it will be compatible with Sony's online plans "for Spring 2002", and all game manuals have to be vetted by Sony.

So, either it's Spring 2002, or someone's made an almighty balls-up in overlooking the error.

Of course, 3rd-party modems will be available before then, so it's six-of-one, half-a-dozen of the other.