Xbox 360 to debut in Europe, Japan by year-end

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Microsoft aims to unseat game market leader Sony by launching the console ahead of the spring 2006 debut of PlayStation 3.

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Another Failure
by 201293546946733175101343322673 July 25, 2005 3:20 PM PDT: Come on now, MS seems to "forget" how lousy its XBOX sells figures are in Europe and Japan. I can't wait to see PS3 crushes XBOX 1.5 again :); Like this Reply to this comment

the tables have turned
by Scott W July 28, 2005 3:01 AM PDT: this will be interesting. last time PS2 came first with "inferior" technology (though it has been proven to outperform X-BOX). now the roles are reversed. MS have inferior technology out the door first. but... standard DVD. i know MS are bad but i never thought they would stoop that low.; Like this Reply to this comment

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