Todd Holmdahl explains why XBox 360 will win
Tags: Microsoft, Games, Gaming, XBox 360, HDTV, Marketing
The folks over at Team XBox have an interview with Todd Holmdahl, Corporate Vice President of the XBox Group at Microsoft. In the interview, you'll hear from the horse's mouth why XBox 360 has no digital outputs (they expect third parties to fill that gap at Christmas) and why XBoxes don't target 1080p outputs (XBox 360 will output whatever component HDTV signal you like, but 1080p is just too small a market, given it isn't a standard).
In case not everyone has a calendar in front of them, XBox 360 launch is scheduled for about one month and two days from now. Given that the target is about 1.6 million XBoxes this holiday season (Goldman Sachs says 3 million -- I say get out of town), I wonder how many are built so far? My uninformed speculation: less than 10,000, and probably fewer than 1,000. Time will tell, though, and we only have about four weeks to wait to find out who is right. But by my calculations, if they intend to ship 1.6 million with only 72 days left in the year, those Chinese factories have to be cranking out about 22,222 a day starting now. Ditto for IBM in cranking out triple-core 3 GHz PowerPC chips -- and they would have had to start much earlier.
The folks over at Team XBox have an interview with Todd Holmdahl, Corporate Vice President of the XBox Group at Microsoft. In the interview, you'll hear from the horse's mouth why XBox 360 has no digital outputs (they expect third parties to fill that gap at Christmas) and why XBoxes don't target 1080p outputs (XBox 360 will output whatever component HDTV signal you like, but 1080p is just too small a market, given it isn't a standard).
In case not everyone has a calendar in front of them, XBox 360 launch is scheduled for about one month and two days from now. Given that the target is about 1.6 million XBoxes this holiday season (Goldman Sachs says 3 million -- I say get out of town), I wonder how many are built so far? My uninformed speculation: less than 10,000, and probably fewer than 1,000. Time will tell, though, and we only have about four weeks to wait to find out who is right. But by my calculations, if they intend to ship 1.6 million with only 72 days left in the year, those Chinese factories have to be cranking out about 22,222 a day starting now. Ditto for IBM in cranking out triple-core 3 GHz PowerPC chips -- and they would have had to start much earlier.
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