Terwijl het nog meer dan anderhalf jaar duurt voordat de X-Box zijn marktintroductie maakt meldt MCVNow.com dat Microsoft al weer ideeën heeft over een opvolger. Software opperhoofd Bill Gates voorspelt dat deze X-Box 2 in het jaar 2005 het levenslicht ziet:
Seamus Blackley, who heads Microsoft’s advance technology group, echoed his leader’s sentiments. X-Box 2 will be ready in five years, Blackley said.Developers Microsoft spoke with prior to the announcement all told the Redmond, Wash., giant that a stable platform was important to grab their support for the new machine, Gates said in his keynote address today at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif.
Microsoft is also forward-looking in its hardware development. It will support HDTV once “someone decides on a standard,” jibed Blackley. Earlier, Gates had noted that X-Box will be capable of higher display resolutions even than HDTV.