MS announces US Xbox Live start
Posted by Simon Perry on 15 August 2002 at 11:01 am | Tagged as: Content, Gaming, Microsoft
Microsoft has announced the finalised US release date of its new “online, broadband, multi-player” service for Xbox – Xbox Live, to be 15 Nov. It will retail in shops for around $50 including a years worth of subscription, a headset (enabling players to talk/insult fellow players) and a mini-game.
At launch there will be a minimum of seven Xbox live enabled games with at least sixty publishers working on new titles.
There’s only a small paragraph on how the Xbox will be able to receive and store additional content via the service. I think this is the area that holds some of the most exciting potential but I think they still concerned about highlighting this fact to people, in case people think MS is taking over their lounge – which I’m sure has crossed MS’s minds.
