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Video Business, May, 2001 by Donahue, Ann
LOS ANGELES--Microsoft and Sony made major announcements regarding their online strategies at E3, setting up a next-generation Internet showdown for the holidays. According to Doug Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association, online gaming revenue could total $1.1 billion by 2003.
"Everyone is saying that online gaming is the next frontier," said John Taylor, a games analyst and managing director at Arcadia Investments. "We're all talking about it and wondering what exactly it is." Both Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation 2 will have broadband Internet capabilities and a hard drive, but the ways the consoles will present that technology is vastly different. Robbie Bach, chief Xbox officer at Microsoft, said...
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