Unconfirmed: Xbox Portable Coming
Hopefully, it will weigh less than 8.5 lbsAccording to the
blog of Dean Takahashi, correspondent to the
San Jose Mercury News,
Microsoft and J Allard are hard at work on a new handheld system. The
device will apparently have multimedia functions along with game
capabilities, not unlike the PSP. The device would apparently
compliment an iTunes-style digital music distribution service,
codenamed Alexandria that the company has planned.
"In a bid to capture the huge audience for handheld entertainment
gadgets, Microsoft is designing a product that combines video games,
music and video in one handheld device, according to sources familiar
with the project," says Takahashi's blog. "The Microsoft product would
compete with Sony, Nintendo and Apple Computer's products,
including the iPod. And Microsoft has some of its most seasoned talent
from the division that created its popular Xbox 360 working on it. Game
executive J Allard leads the project, and its director is Greg Gibson,
who was the system designer on the Xbox 360 video game console. Bryan
Lee, the finance chief on the Xbox business, is leading the business
side of the project."
Takahashi's claims are not to be dismissed lightly; he wrote a book on
the original Xbox in 2002 and is publishing another book on the Xbox
360 later this year with the help of high profile Microsoft insiders.
Source:
Game Daily