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Microsoft CEO Explains New Xbox Comment

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By Tom Ivan

June 22, 2009

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has clarified comments he made last week suggesting that the platform holder was to release a new Xbox console in 2010.

In a speech at The Executive’s Club of Chicago, Ballmer reportedly said that a new Xbox console would feature technology that is “really close” to an actuality and an in-built motion sensing camera.

But clarifying his comments in a statement issued to IGN, the executive said he hadn’t been making any new announcements.

"I confused the issue with my poorly chosen words,” he said. “There is no news in my comments. Things are as reported after E3. Sorry."

At E3 Microsoft announced plans to release a motion control sensing camera for Xbox 360. The device is widely expected to be available as a standalone product and to be bundled with consoles at retail. Xbox 360 director of product management Aaron Greenberg said last week that Microsoft is considering launching an Xbox 360 featuring an in-built camera, but that launch plans have yet to be finalised.

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On June 22nd MarkJFerreri said:

I can see how Balmer would see the Natal 360 (as included, not built in) as a new system. It will be. I'm anxious to see all the 3rd party software ahead. Sure, the demos lagged and the videos were contrived FMG, but the concept is still real, and I'm sure that it is currently the software (and not the hardware) that we are waiting for. Since the controler is our interface with the gaming realm, isn't dramatically altering that interface essentially provinding a new console? I surely hope that they never chose an integrated Natal in the console. It'd be impractical. How many people have their 360 smack dab center in front of their HDTV? I certainly don't!

(then again, as a new console, maybe he was just thinking about the new bar code for a Natal package deal)

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On June 22nd savagehenry said:

Steve Ballmer really does have a face only a mother could love !!

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On June 22nd DubsTF said:

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On June 22nd Rider_on_the_Storm said:

It's clear Steve Ballmer is just fucking batshit mental, judging by his comments and video below!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc

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On June 22nd grognard66 said:

I suspect MS is using Fall 2010 as a soft launch of Natal, just like they did with XBLA the last year of the original x-box. I'll be surprised if the next x-box doesn't come out Fall of 2011 with a more fully realized version of Natal, but they won't abandon 360 the way they had to for the original x-box.

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On June 22nd nolim said:

Well, glad we cleared that up then, so nice of Ballmer to go on record and leave us all in no doubt that M$ are DEFINITELY NOT going to make any useful comments regarding the rumored new Xbox.

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On June 22nd Indrema said:

Oh you know how it is at executive clubs. You get to drinking. You get to boasting, and it just "slips out" that you're about to, hilariously, screw all those pimple-faced, zipper heads, who play that something-box my company makes; with a new console right after launching Natel.