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Article: Microsoft Xbox: game console. (First Looks).
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- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Microsoft is making its first foray into the gaming console market, releasing the high-powered Xbox system to crowds of eager gamers. The company has been talking up Xbox for nearly two years, originally unveiling it at a game developers conference in March 2000. Company officials have offered several peeks at the console (see May 2001 issue, Xbox exposed page 76) and heavily promoted it to developers.
PC World took the system for a test drive along with several of the games available at US launch. Initial finding: it's a worthy competitor to Sony's PlayStation2, the current king of the consoles.
Assessing hardware
Take a look at Xbox's specs, ...