“Breaking with the company’s policy of staying silent in public on the question of when the new console, widely believed to be called Xbox 360, will launch, Gates told the Society of American Business Writers and Editors that the system will ship in the current year.
Speaking about high definition displays, he asked rhetorically when the “year of high definition” will be – and followed on to say that it would be “this year, because we’re going to ship this next Xbox.”
His comment is the first public acknowledgement by the company that it plans to ship Xbox 360 before the end of the year, although it’s been generally accepted around the industry for some time that the console will arrive in October or November.”
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