Headed out for E3 '07

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iSTON3 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Damn..5:30 in the morning. :) I'm a man and I have to what I have to do.

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NemVitzh — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

I can't wait to hear the inevitable big news!

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Little Lee — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:47:10 GMT

Anyone have a clue what time this will be on in the UK?

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mike — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:48:00 GMT

any truth in this major ?

> From Dean Takahashi at mercurynews.com:

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Here's a trade secret that Microsoft is unlikely to publicly acknowledge.

Sony's cutting the price on the PlayStation 3. How will Microsoft react? We'll find out soon. But a key part of the strategy is going to be a project code-named Falcon.

Falcon is the name for the latest internal electronics in the Xbox 360. It will have an IBM microprocessor and an AMD/ATI graphics chip that are manufactured in a 65-nanometer production process. These are cost-reduced chips that do the same thing as their 90-nanometer predecessors, but they're smaller.

Microsoft is in the process of qualifying the new Falcon chips and motherboard this summer. I expect it will launch Xbox 360s with the new Falcon innards this fall. That is why the company has been able to say that it has solved its manufacturing quality problems. Microsoft is likely to spend a little more money on heat sinks to make sure that the overheating problem doesn't resurface with Falcon.

The good thing about the smaller chips is that they will likely be easier to make in mass quantities and they shouldn't fail as often. Quality should automatically go up. That's what folks said about the 90-nanometer generation. But the 65-nanometer production process is a known quantity at this point at places such as IBM for sure and possibly at other suppliers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. So rather than fix the problems with the 90-nanometer machine, Microsoft has the easier problem now of getting a 65-nanometer machine to work right. I suspect that is why Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment & Devices group, said on Thursday on a conference call with analysts that the company has "its hands around it at the engineering level."

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re: Headed out for E3 '07

Mike — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:45:20 GMT

i hope h3 is not the climax for us 360 folks

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The Fold — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:29:59 GMT

Looks like I'll be getting up early tomorrow morning!

I'm hoping for some news on the European Video Marketplace myself.

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Sal — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:53:34 GMT

Kinda funny how you linked off to the weather forecast Major.

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Unr3alCh13f — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:03:42 GMT

Hey, apperently G4 is showing the E3 special at 9 PM PST. I was going to put a "reminder timer" on my tv when i found that out...

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Chris Paladino — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:12:57 GMT

Actually Major, Tony and I (from the GSB Crew) were at E3 on Sunday Morning. ;)

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E1rohir — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:37:43 GMT

Hey, is that the Amphitheater from Heroes???

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Hybrid Alien — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:03:18 GMT

4.30 GMT time that sucks oh well probably watch the briefing when i get up, I hope loads of demos get released.

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Spike Mike — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:28:28 GMT

Yeah I'm looking foreward to hear some Big gaming news ^^

I also looking foreward to Games Convention Germany in August

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m0dm0use — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:23:33 GMT

I'm sure a week ago I heard/read that it would be up on the market place two hours after it started, but now all I see is that we get HD copy a few days later, still thats awsome something for Sony to learn from the content masters.

4:30am Wednesday London.

5:30am Wednesday France, Germany, Spain.

I hope the weather is good for you all, it is here in London :)

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GFx — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:10:50 GMT

Good points blahism.

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KIDamazin — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:02:45 GMT

Well, its OFFICIAL!

blog.us.playstation.com/.../new-ps3-new-price-drop-more-news-coming

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centeredtype — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:42:42 GMT

Hey Major N, i live pretty close to Santa Monica, would it be easy to sneak into the show, or watch from a certain point? its a high school so it shouldnt be to hard to get in right?