MS are Ready Are You?
We all know that 2005 will be the year of Xbox 2 but it seems that MS have their year planned out as far as trade shows go.
On the 6 th January at CES in Las Vegas, Bill Gates is expected to announce the very first official details of the Xbox 2 to the public. It is likely to be relatively short and sweet but will outline the current state of the platform.
The next big date in the Xbox 2 Calender is expected to be on March 7 at the Games Developers Conference in San Fransisco where MS will debut its first demos of what the next generation console will be able to produce graphically.
Following GDC, the next big date will be the 17 th May at E3 2005. This is where all of the games will be debuted and shown to the public. Expect DOA4 and Perfect Dark Zero to be shown here.
After this, 1 st September will be the date where the European details of the Xbox 2 launch will be revealed at the U.Ks biggest videogame trade-show, ECTS.
Tokyo Games Show 2005 will be the next stop for Xbox 2 at the end of September where Japanese support for the console will be revealed and Japanese launch details are revealed.
Following this will be the launch of the new console which is believed to happen sometime between October 2005 and December 2005. It is believed that it will only be launched in the U.S at this time, with Euro and Japanese launches to follow in Spring 2006.
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