Microsoft Game Console Approaches Launch.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2000 by Fortt, Jon

Sep. 3--Microsoft Corp. has settled on a name and a design for its Xbox video game console, and has lined up an impressive list of developer studios to create games for the system's launch late next year.

Though Microsoft was unsure of the name at first, it has committed to calling it Xbox. The console will not, however, be a big silver "X" like the prototype the company showed off at the Game Developers Conference in March.

Microsoft's Xbox will go head-to-head with other so-called next-generation video game consoles. The most highly anticipated console -- Sony Corp.'s PlayStation2, due in stores Oct. 26 -- has the potential to display graphics several times better than today's PlayStation and doubles as a DVD player.

Determined to compete...

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