[yahoo] Xbox 360 kicks off console wars

[Greg Bernhardt]

Microsoft's new console will be called the Xbox 360 and be in the shops by Christmas, it has been revealed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/4541961.stm

[z-component]

Who's buying it?

[exequor]

Not me, the PS3 is shaping up to be the console that redefines console gaming.

[franznietzsche]

IBM more or less stabbed MS in the back on this big time, though it was a decade overdue. They make the processors for the XBox, and they're making far superior processors for the PS3.