As promised, unofficial Xbox biographer Dean Takahashi has completed the draft of his upcoming book, The Xbox 360 Uncloaked, before his self-imposed deadline of E3 in May. You can check out some info on the book at the publisher's website.Counting down to the book's May 9th release date, Takahashi will be posting portions of an exhaustively detailed chronology of the original Xbox every week. A small snippet of the first installment:
- April 22, 1999: Craig Mundie lays out rules of engagement, setting up a beauty contest between the Xbox and WebTV teams
- April 27, 1999: Xbox team meets with Mundie to show him demos of the PS 2 emulation and the PC
- April 27, 1999: 3-D graphics chip designer GigaPixel visits Microsoft.
- April 28, 1999: 3Dfx graphics chip team visits Microsoft.
- April 29, 1999: Dave Kirk, chief scientist of Nvidia, visits Redmond to talk about game business
- April 30, 1999: Consumer Windows/PC appliance team holds a meeting with Bill Gates
[Via Joystiq]
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4-06-2006 @ 12:37PM
jaemz said...
"April 22, 199: Craig Mundie lays out rules of engagement, setting up a beauty contest between the Xbox and WebTV teams"
Wow, the X360 has been in design for a very long time... ;)
Christopher, feel free to delete my post after you fix the typo (date 199)
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4-06-2006 @ 2:32PM
Joey said...
Is this a postive, negative, or neutral look at microsoft and xbox?
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4-06-2006 @ 3:54PM
C. Grant said...
Thanks, jaemz! I was thinking, "No, that's a really quick development time...," until I saw the missing 9. Danke!
Joey: no one's read it yet, so we'll have to wait and see. Check out "Opening the Xbox" if you want to see what this might be like. He's a professional journalist so I would expect an even handed account.
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4-06-2006 @ 3:54PM
C. Grant said...
Thanks, jaemz! I was thinking, "No, that's a really quick development time...," until I saw the missing 9. Danke!
Joey: no one's read it yet, so we'll have to wait and see. Check out "Opening the Xbox" if you want to see what this might be like. He's a professional journalist so I would expect an even handed account.
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