Game Section
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What is Xbox? Imagine that Bill Gates walks into the room and tells you and your friends to come up with the ideal game console. He's got the resources, the engineers and the connections to make it all happen. You just have to tell him what to build.
So you and your friends get to work. It's got to be powerful, that's a given. It's got to have a comfortable,
functional controller and it has to have great games.
You want full-blown broadband to send your plays, your combos and your plasma blobs across the globe and back. You write it all down and give your wish list to Bill Gates. "Outstanding," he says.
Since he's got the smartest people in the world working for him, he adds a few of their ideas to your list, like four high-speed controller ports and DVD capabilities.
And then he tells you he's going to cram all this gaming goodness into a cool-looking black box that looks like a cross between a mega-watt amplifier and Batman's briefcase. How cool is that?
As it turns out, that's pretty much exactly what Microsoft did, which is create a gaming dream machine designed by gamers. That's Xbox.
Developers from around the world announced that they are joining the Xbox brigade. Be prepared for rocking Xbox versions of your best-loved games, like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, SSX, Oddworld and Metal Gear Solid.
Microsoft is recruiting the world's best developers to be a part of the Xbox experience. Soon you'll wonder how you ever called yourself a gamer, how you ever lived before
playing new mind-shredding titles like Halo and Malice.
More than 200 companies from around the world have announced their commitment to Xbox, including Sega, Activision, Capcom, Eidos, Infogrames, Konami, Midway, THQ and Electronic Arts. Why are they so excited?
There are a couple of reasons. One is that Microsoft created a powerful console, a nitro-burning game engine that will punch through the limits of consoles before it. Another reason is that Xbox is developer-friendly. In other words, developers spend less time wrestling with the hardware and more time creating cool games.
It's all about the games. You know it, we know it and Microsoft knows it.
Microsoft left nothing to chance when they designed the Xbox. Everything about it -- from the blazing graphics processor to the black exterior to the length of the controller cords -- is intended to maximize your gaming experience.
They talked to 5000 gamers in the United States, Japan and Europe to find out what they wanted. They also toured the homes of 130 gamers to see where they played their games, how they stored their consoles and all kinds of other stuff that most people
wouldn't bother to notice. They were in search of the right vibe.
So it's no coincidence that the raised ribs on the Xbox remind people of the heat-dissipating fins of a powerful stereo amplifier. It's also no coincidence that the sleek controllers, sporting more buttons and triggers than any other console controller, are connected to the Xbox by extra-long cables that emit an incandescent green glow.
And that's just the outside. Just check out the specs on the right for a list of features that reads like a gamer's wish list.
The bottom line is that the Xbox is three times as powerful as any game console out there, and you don't have to crack one open to be convinced.