Fancy a portable Xbox? I’m certain many society have thought about it before, and it will really see Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony slug it out both in the living room as well as on the portable front. How would you like the portable Xbox to look like? There are several major pitfalls for the big M to look out for, and one of them would be the lack of connectivity. Microsoft’s Xbox Live is one of the biggest attractions to term, and has not seen any serious competition from either Sony or Nintendo, so that will be quite a problem unless WiMAX is rolled out extensively. additionally, disc changing

on the go just isn’t viable, so Microsoft will have to think of a way to circumvent that. Should one be able to engage in online multiplayer, there is plus the issue of lag to deal with - will there be a good adequate coding like Quakeworld to compensate for latency found using 56k modems? As for the number of games available, I wonder whether Microsoft has it in them to court developers by to their side in such an unchartered territory.

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Orginal post by Mike Yamamoto