Bij Engadget.com hebben ze de gelegenheid gekregen om met niemand minder dan hoofdman van Microsoft, Bill Gates, te praten. Uiteraard hebben ze hem vragen gesteld over de Xbox 360 (codename Xenon).
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[Waarom de Xbox lanceren op MTV? Riskeer je zo niet, je te vervreemden van de Hardcore gamers, door je vanaf dag een te richten op de massa?]
" I'm going to call it Xenon, that's the codename for the thing; Xenon is good enough that we'll have no problem. Hardcore gamers are going to love Xenon because of the applications that are on Xenon. And it's not just the technical specs. I's the partnership we have with the game creators and we're going to have this next generation machine out so that it's going to be timed with high definition becoming very mainstream.
We 've learned a lot from Xbox 1. In Xbox 1 we let ourselves sort of be second in and to not have the momentum. We had to learn a lot about building the partnerships. We're new to the industry so people naturally didn't know if we were hardcore committed to the thing. We've really gotten over that now and so it's been a lot easier this time around, but we want to broaden video gaming, and without giving up any of the hardcore players we want more women, older people [to be playing games]. We're going to have games that are more sociable, more approachable, particularly by taking this idea of Xbox Live and bringing in contests and spectators and ratings and talking to your friends and various new things there we think we can make it much bigger category than it's ever been to date. That is important for us."
[Gaat Microsoft ook een handheld uitbrengen?]
"Right now our entertainment group is very focused on Xenon and doing an absolutely fantastic job on Xenon, and it's very exciting to see how that is coming together. In the portable space you have to think of okay what will the phone become over time. The phone is sort of trumps everything. It trumps media players, it trumps cameras, it trumps GPS-mapping devices, digital wallets, and even entertainment. And obviously we're in the phone software space. Right now we don't see a dedicated device on our road map."
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