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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Greg Howson

Box opens at CES

There are strong rumours that Xbox 2 will be unveiled at the CES show in Las Vegas next January. Currently codenamed Xenon - why can't they choose a less sci-fi name, like tomato, or seaweed – the Xbox 2 will allegedly be unveiled during Bill Gates' keynote address and will almost certainly produce jarringly large amounts of whooping and hollering from the assembled US games/tech journalists.

Other Xbox 2 rumours that have been milling around for a while include suggestions that there will be no hard-drive included and that three IBM-designed 64-bit microprocessors (i.e. very powerful) will run the console. Most gamers, of course would settle for a decent Xbox RPG. But that's another story..

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