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Article: The Joy of X; Microsoft's long awaited new games console, the Xbox, hits the streets in Britain tomorrow. Steve Lawson takes it out for a spin and answers the questions: Is it worth the wait and will it succeed?(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2002
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Byline: Steve Lawson
MICROSOFT has spent two years trying to convince the games industry that its games console will overcome the market dominance of Sony's ubiquitous PlayStation2.
Xbox truly has a mountain to climb.
Not only does Sony have the cachet of being a lifestyle product heavily featured on TV and in magazines, it also has the all-important advantage of a huge library of games and, equally important, a games development industry which is perfectly geared up to producing top quality titles for it.
Xbox, on the other hand, is having to do it all from scratch.
Of course, it helps to have the world's most powerful ...