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May 10th, 2006

Taking the wraps off the new games

Posted by: Reuters Staff
Tags: E3Expo

gates.jpggames2.jpgTop console makers took the wraps off their big new toys, hoping to make lasting impressions at this year’s E3. Bobbi Rebell reports from Los Angeles. Watch the video here

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sought to sell a vision of “anywhere” gaming that would link video game consoles, cell phones and computers, Daisuke Wakabayashi and Kemp Powers report.

Sony’s U.S. game unit chief Kaz Hirai threw down the gauntlet to Microsoft on Monday, saying next-generation gaming would not start until Sony said so. But Gates countered that customers would snatch up 10 million Xbox 360s before Sony got started.

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