I am sure MS will not make the same mistake, they will definitely give Ps3 a run for it's money hence, getting a head start with games and production etc. But, unless MS make some supermachine, I won't be buying it due to the fact we are going to spend 30 bucks on a dvd remote, 20 bucks on a possibly sucky memory card, and like 300 bucks to get the thing that's like 400 bucks to play games and watch movies.
And what is the point of thinking about hacking the xbox2, because there will be a possibilitythat there is no h.d to load our dash onto nor will there be any place where we can hack the bios..MS will make sure of that. And with a possible non x86 architecture we are screwed. So, I think there Is a very high chance MS will be putting it out in 2005.
Back on topic, I very highly doubt we will be coming out with a bios that is larger than 1 meg, so is it not just extra space...