Pulling hype's plug. (Circuits).Let's let's Contraction of let us. play a game of Hype Blaster. Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, www.microsoft.com) The most successful and influential software company. Microsoft's software and Intel's hardware pioneered the PC and revolutionized the computer industry. is pushing its new video-game console, the Xbox, out November 15. Nintendo follows with its GameCube, out three days later. Here's the word. * Microsoft's hype: "Xbox is going to change video games See video game console. the way MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. changed music." MTV brought music from the radio to the TV. The Xbox will take video games from the TV to ... the TV. What will be different are the graphics on the most powerful of all systems. * Nintendo's hype: GameCube is "the ultimate TV game machine and the first of its kind." It doesn't have the best processor, but it works with the Game Boy Advance for new ways of playing. And it's the first to resemble a lunch box. |
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