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Article: MICROSOFT IS PUTTING A LOT OF MONEY - AND HYPE - INTO XBOX, ITS FIRST VENTURE INTO PLAY CONSOLES A MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR GAMBLE ON GAMING<.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- November 6, 2001
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Byline: DAN RICHMANP-I reporter
*****CORRECTION ran on November 7, 2001, as follows:****** The capacity to play interactive games over a high-speed Internet connection will be built into every Microsoft Xbox gaming console, even those sold when the product debuts Nov. 15, though games using that capability won't be available until the second half of 2002. A story on Page D1 of yesterday's Business section misstated the reason for the delay.
It glows eerie green, renders games in startlingly realistic detail, and is crucial to Microsoft Corp.'s future.
If you don't know what it is, you obviously haven't been watching enough television.
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