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It's been known in industry circles for months, but the news is now finally starting to leak. You'll be able to buy the next generation Xbox in both America and Europe in 2005, say experts.

While internet news sources today have reported that Microsoft is readying to launch its next generation Xbox hardware in America and Europe in the fourth quarter of this year, Eurogamer has learnt that the specific timing for the machine's roll-out is late October or early November, and merely weeks after the US launch. The exact date is yet to be solidified. Speaking under conditions of strict anonymity, senior American and British development, publishing and retail sources have confirmed the launch window in the past weeks. It is also now widely known among British sources that Microsoft UK is currently in the planning stages of a spectacular and unprecedented launch event in central London for the winter release.

While it has been accepted for some time that Xbox 2, currently codenamed Xenon, would be released in America before the end of the year, the news of a Q4 launch in both the UK and Europe will send shockwaves through the industry and gaming community on this side of the Atlantic. Many have expressed concern that Microsoft is forcing the next generation of console hardware too early, and that the current generation still has much to achieve. The most famous example of this came from then Nintendo of Europe MD David Gosen speaking at an ELSPA summit in London last October, where he lambasted Microsoft for pushing a next generation machine to market in 2005, and even went so far as to question Microsoft's motivation as profit. "In every cycle, some manufacturer not profiting from the current cycle is eager to kick-start the next one," he said at the time.

EA recently confirmed that next generation Xbox titles would ship alongside current generation offerings later this year, although the certainty of a European release this side of 2006 has been muted: until now. Microsoft has already publicly snubbed the suggestion of Xbox 2 being shown for the first time at GDC in March, and it now seems obvious that E3 will see the grand unveiling of the machine.

Source: GameIndustry.biz

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SupahFly21

thats awesome. im totally getting one. and the Halo game coming out for it. i know i havent heard of one yet, but there has to be one. thats what xbox is known for. cant wait.
i wonder how good the graphics will be

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666paintballer

Halo 2.5 Now with more more armor colors and a new bg re-make

ya, im getting pretty excited. but i heard there calling it the xbox 360 to make the name sound more competitive to playstation 3

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Cocker16

High Definition is what ive heard..... Halo2 in high Def=cool.

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Number One Andrew

Damn, I just got an XBox I.

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SupahFly21

whats high definition mean?

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-I dont Paintball anymore, but I enjoy watching, talking, and helping people with it.
"If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." (Romans 10:9)

--I have a blue, small, CP Regulator (Spyder threads), that I want to give away because its the last paintball item I need to sell. You pay shipping plus 10 dollars and it's yours. PM me.