GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us the Register has
discovered a story over at SPOnG that says Microsoft's Xbox 2 or Xbox Next, will
hit retail late this year. This is purely conjecture however, as it purportedly
comes from a "leaked press release" from Electronic Arts. Anyway, here's what
the Reg has to say about it.
 Games site Spong this week received a copy of an as-yet-unpublished announcement of EA"s game Need for Speed: Most Wanted. The title"s due to ship late 2005. And so, it seems, is the Xbox 2. According to EA"s blurb, the game will be available for all the usual suspects but crucially a "simultaneous ship with the Xbox2 platform". The implication is clear: the game will ship late 2005 and so with Microsoft"s next-generation console. It has been rumoured for some time that Microsoft will ship Xbox 2/Next later this year in a bid to grab the Christmas 2005 sales period for its own and steal a march on Sony"s PlayStation 3, which isn"t expected to arrive in the West before 2006, and Nintendo"s upcoming "Revolution", the successor to GameCube. |
The article goes on to say that of course this release
of information could be fake, or maybe even altered to incorporate the game
along with the hardware. Or it could all be a guessing game. You can read
the story straight from SPOnG if you would like to hazard a guess as to
it's authenticity.
Source: The Register
