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...occupation began a few weeks ago, the day the big parcel arrived from Microsoft. "The Xbox," said a co-worker we'll call Stein. He eyed the package hungrily, as if it were a hot pizza walking by itself down the hall. "Anyone want to play football?" asked his sidekick, JT. The two of them followed the thing into my office, where I uncrated it. It was a VCR-size video-game console, black with a dollop of mint jelly. I attached it to my TV. My friends elbowed me aside and booted up NFL Fever...
Just in time. The GameCube ($200) and the Xbox ($300) will both be arriving in retail stores this week. If you are of a certain age and inclination, you're probably wondering: Which one should I buy? And what about Sony's PlayStation2, which came out last year...
Older (age 15 and up), more hard-core gamers will want that Xbox. The machine is Microsoft's beachhead in the console wars, and I predict it will be a big success, even though it costs 50% more. It's a gorgeous piece of equipment that includes an internal hard drive (so it can respond at blink-of-the-eye speeds to your every command). While Microsoft offers a few child-friendly titles, including Shrek, it's the adult-oriented fare that will distinguish this machine. I was particularly enamored of a surfing simulator, Transworld Surf...
...real beauty of the Guadalajara plant--and the Xbox facility in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary--is that they are not owned by Microsoft. The Xbox is being made by Flextronics, a company that few consumers have heard of but that computer and telecommunications-equipment makers are eager to do business with. Indeed, near Building 12 are 16 production lines for Cisco Systems digital network routers. Other buildings produce Palm Pilots and DirecTV set-top boxes...
...know whether it will take off until the season gets moving around the end of October. If you discover it's a real hit, and it is being shipped from China, it won't reach you until it's too late." That's why most of Flextronics' Xbox production is in Guadalajara, near its primary market...