sounds impressive

microsoft doesnt need a handheld

rubbish.

so microsoft handheld, yes? no?

Xbox portable. Dunno if that will ever happen .. but who knows nowadays!

The first Xbox book was awesome, everyone should read it, this one will be too.

oh ya jase_n_bone... u have 2 awards, and a level 5, u spend more time here then u think... so i wouldnt make fun

HAHAHAHAHA lets call it the XBox mini, or the XPod... or the XSphear.... but the catch is it weighs a tonne and you cant reach any of the buttons... but hey at least half of the time it crashes i mean, shuts its self down even if you weren't ready for it!!!!

Microsoft should stick to software. The PSP will own any piece of crap microsoft puts out.....

thats a bad move

nintendo would kill them

they should just focus on making the Xbox 360 a must have
before they decide to enter another market
(especially entering a market that has the Nintendo DS in it)

Hmm... is getting the book really worth it?

OMG I plan to say once and for all..i will buy both the PS3 and Xbox360(wich i own currently). then i can play all titles. Why the complaining. And if you "cannot afford it posts" just get a job and some money..

dont you losers have anything better to do than moan about
microsoft and sony all day. its sad beacause some of you are
40 years old!!. why dont you guys try worrying about sumthing else
like losing your virginity.

i wanna wear a wig for fun i mean

ummm thats great

Uh.......yeah......sure........whatever

rubbish.

i like the sound of a Mircosoft Handheld, if they do it right it should be good, and there better be some Halo 3 info tomorrow!

You people should really step back and look at yourselves... your argueing over a game console!! Nothing that important to get this mad about.

Does it really matter which console is better? No it doesn't, All 3 systems are going to have great games. You Fangirls need to grow up and get a life outside of videogames.... and Yes i said Fangirls cause only a GIRL would argue about something so trivial.

Both systems are almost identical in many aspects and both have their pro's and con's. Just play the games anst stop bickering about which is better Stop trying to find things to throw in each other's face and just play the damn games and have fun.

Will it be a real engineering book detailing the tasks and problems the engineers/programmers overcame to build the thing? Or is it some gay tattle tale "he said she said" book?
Cap'n Smollett

My Aunt works at Microsoft at New York!!! Yay im last

You're kidding right?

lol

W/e I dont care I own a XBOX 360 and plan on getting the ps3 along with The revolution.. Honestly I'm looking foward more for the REvolution... Also J Allard is gay... its gonna be funnier cuz its a gay dude wearing a wig... Along with that J allard is a lil punk B***H That wants to put people down.. He's like Bill Gates Mini Me..lmao

cool

Micro$oft and $ony need to stop worshiping $$$$ and think about gamers like Nintendo. Greed will be the downfall for the Xflop 360 and the GayStation 3.

While the handheld initiative was later scuttled
I think those of you think MS will have a handheld any time soon need to break out the Websters' and find out what scuttled means.

Moving on, J Allard won't wear a wig because he is not a man of his word. You have to turn in you honesty and personal honor when you take the job of MS PR flack.

i Pod killer my ass, want to make a handheld now?? Greddy!! Just make sure that your window doesn't have any blue screen of dead or hang instead, want to make a hendheld, huh ... puihh ... that ori xbox eat my dvd, scratch it, that 360 scratch and burn my dvd becuse of that overheathing problem, just make sure your previous product run really well first, before begin any of new project, money $ucker!! it's just keeping greedy on every day. bill gates .... moore .... allard .... Crap.

i hope the handheld will have two sticks, so we can finally play a good shooter on a handheld. im so pissed on my psp's one stick layout. the ds came close with metroid but its still annoying. ( DREAMING about a HALO match in the bus or study hall !!!)

Yeah dmce042004, because Microsoft doesn't know how to attract people to their conference. So they resort to girls.

y should i buy?

PS-2 has loads of problems compared to 360! Even the most recent PS-2s has problem! PS-3 will have problems too. I'm glad that my Xbox never f***d up in it's 2+ years of service

I had dreadlocks once... I miss them :-( Had to get rid of them cuz they were too hard to take care of because if you can't get all the water out after showering they start to mold after a while, and it took me 2 hours to get the water out using a hair dryer on high

Do it jay! wear that wig

HAHAHAHA i hope he wears a Wig, come on Allard Be e Man! Be e man!
and, come on people the 360 doesnt have as many glitches as the PS2 had in launch ( or in its entire "life" ), i still remember buying my PS2 ( two years after launch by the way ) and having to return it 'cause it didnt read any discs.
On the other hand i NEVER had any problems with a Nintendo Console ( Amazing uh ? ).

No he won't wear a wig.

He's not a man of his word. I don't belive 1 word that dude says. He always makes big statements to apear confident...

I own a 360... but that guy is a looser.
The Sony and Nintendo guys are much pleasant.

This does'nt intrest me at all.

I'm not trying to be nasty or anything like that but I got my system at launch and I had no problems short of the "save glitch" with DOA4 and that was a software issue. It sucks when you purchase anything for any price and it doesn't do what it's supposed to. On that note no system has had a perfect launch with no faulty parts...welcome to the world of mass production.

I also think it's childish to claim a system can be better by taking someone's word for it. I "know" my 360 is great to me cuz I played it and nothing MS, Sony or Nintendo reps or fans can say or do to to change that. I plan on getting a PS3 and Wii and don't consider myself to be a fanboy due to the fact that I hold no alliance to no company (though I think it's foolish to be a fan of a corporation). But we all have to admit that certain things are true; Microsoft needs more variety in it's games to become dominant, Sony has be over exaggerating what their systems can do since the PSX , and for the maturing gamer Nintendo doesn't have much to offer besides the occasional title and innovation.

Also the next-gen started when the 360 dropped. I've been playing games for a while, becoming more jaded as the years passed, bought mine with my own money and I am thoroughly impressed. Claiming something is better and haven't seen or played it with your own eyes and hands is foolish. The PS3 or Wii might take the spot when released but untill then the 360 is giving next-gen value to gamers now.

I'll likely get a PS3 as well as the 360 I own and I'd expect the quality to be about the same with some different exclusive games.

As for some of the quality comments below, here is some food for thought.

1 - At a 3% defect rate (considered standard) you'd have 90,000 defective 360's by now with 3 million being sold. At over 500 per week, I don't doubt I'd see some posts from unhappy campers. I've seen quite a few posts on defects, but when you think about 90,000 defective anything's, you'll realize Sony will have many posters saying the same thing about the PS3. I don't think the quality is that bad, nor will it be any different with the PS3.

With the Blu-Ray it could actually be worse. I sure hope not, but that's a brand new technology by itself.

2. With 50% of the 360 owners being connected via Live, many are getting updates or patches to fix glitches. The same will hold true for the PS3. If game developers believe they have this safety net, they'll ship just a wee bit earlier and patch later. That could make this Generation a problem for the 50% or so, that aren't connected via Live for patches...

I've had probably 50 patches for games, Live, etc. Many of them, I don't even know what they were for... I just click OK and it downloads. That may help or hurt the PS3, since Xbox users were more typically connected because of the original Xbox Live service.

3. Since the 360 drives scratch disks that slip out of the tray, when opening/closing... I wonder how many who put their 360's upright have more problems than those how lay them flat.... I think it looked cool in marketing ads, but I would advise against it. Sony is doing the same thing. Gravity is not your friend in these situations.

Anyway, my 360 lays flat and I've never moved it once, since I originally fired it up and it gets plenty of air. I'd recommend being gentle with the PS3 as well. It can't hurt your chances of not being one of the 90,000.

Like Allard would wear a dreadlocksk wig. He wants Microsoft to succeed first, not honor some stupid bet with a writer.

lmao! so hope he will fo allard go allard go!

is it just me or is it everything he says is undeciferable lol

I wish I was a "looser" like Allard... .

i'd like to hear more about this handheld, knowing microsoft is making it i'm sure there will be a huge emphasis on multi-media, it would be cool if it was open architecture

i had my 360 since launch and i haven't had any problems with it. my brother bought a playstation 2 (one of those small thin ones) last month and after playing on the ps2 for over 30 days it started making weird noises and we had to return it. It isn't just the 360 even old systems still seem to run into problems. I am sure that the ps3 and Wii will have glitches also.

hahaha, and this years console winner is... Nintendo??? well, Nintendo systems don't have many glitches at launch. it's all up in the air. the x-box 360 might be the winner this generation because of the year jump they have on the ps3 and the Wii. that really helped out 5 years ago with the PS2. The winning one now is the 360, just because it can be played right now. We'll find out by october of next year which system is dominant.

wow finally Allard is officially a loser... not really news though, we all knew it...

I've had my 360 for just over 2 weeks now, and just yesterday the disk tray mysteriously stopped working. XBLA games and demos still work fine, though; only the game disks don't work.

So yeah, I'm pretty pissed right now; don't tell me that we're all just overreacting.

An Xbox handheld? I don't know... I'm kind of already sick of my PSP aside from using it for MP3s (to play on my 360). I'm pretty much done with portable gaming; no DS Lite, Xboy, PSP2 can re-entice me.

" i don't own a 360 but sony fans quit ragging on 360 being buggy. It really wasn't....."

Easy for you to say.. You don't have one to lock up constantly on the AAA titles like PGR3 and GRAW like I do. I love my 360, but I wouldn't put "stability" on the features list. If Sony really wants to show that they are the long term ruler of consoles, they could make sure that their system is stable BEFORE launching it. Quality speaks wonders about a company's commitment to thye future. Kicking hardware/software out to fast just to get a leg up in this battle could loose M$ the war.l

Why everyone that claims X360 is "buggy" doesen't have one ? I liked "Sony way" better, but since I had to return my PSP 3 times for defects sake (and didn't bought it on release day), and my X360 play > 3 hours/day (12 hours on week-ends) and never, ever had a single "glitch", I think MS does better quality control than Sony.

lageasy311: I also don't agree with you, the previous guy is right, as of today X360 is better than PS3 because we can play with the 1st now. By your way of thinking I can say X720 is better than PS3, virtually. But virtually doesn't mean anything, what counts is what we can do now, and the sad true is PS3 doesn't exist.

i don't own a 360 but sony fans quit ragging on 360 being buggy. It really wasn't.....as far as this guy goes, i hope i see him with that wig. But yea, a few consoles had glithces, so does my precious ps2, but that is not something to finger point. Unless they do a total recall, the system is working just fine, though i still want my ps3 and not a 360. Sgt_mmmmbop whatever your name is, learn to make a VALID point, not just "our console is out first so we're better than yours" point, b/c we shall see what happens in the future. It aint next gen till we say it's next gen .....Ken Kutaragi