I just read those form posts you listed, it sounds mostly like it's an CvS problem, not one everyone's encountering with all live games, am I correct?

Since it's a third party title, I honestly have no idea what's being done about the (Capcom vs. SNK EO) issues. I can ask around though.

welcome aboard Calico!

j

wel the reps at XBL said MSFT runs the servers for all non-SEGA games

Have you heard anything about Banjo-Kazooie 3? Will it ever see the light of day?

I just read in the EGM rumor mill section that X-Box 2 may not have a hard drive to save space. I know that this is in the rumor mill, but that is a disturbing rumor since I love the hard drive. Do you have any information about this?

Well, I hate to sound like a lamer, but we're not allowed to comment on rumors.

Then what good are you here?

When's Halo 2 coming out?

well you can just pass along that it would be kind of stupid to have hyped the HD this gen and then not include one next gen, unless they are going to do something else fairly innovative with storage (USB thumb drives that could be used to transfer to any PC might be nice or some other smart media), and then only if it could be pulled off with fast loading times.

I realize the hard drive pushes the cost up, etc and that there are drawbacks to it (losing your saves if your hard drive or X-box gets smoked and you don't want to pony up the $$$ to have MS fix it), but it was a feature that was hyped along with the built in NIC, etc this gen.

One request: CDDB lookup for CD track names when copying to harddrive, perhaps as a perk for subscribing to XBox Live.

kthx

Regarding the hard drive, we've been letting MS know EXACTLY how gamers feel about the rumors of it not being included.

I can't say if it's swayed them one way or the other yet, because they are keeping product details a closely guarded secret, even internally.

I've been hoping for this one myself. I had hoped it would happen with Music Mixer, but it didn't. I need to ask around to see if this might be in a future feature set.

I was able to pop in some CDs and have the track listing...maybe the CD text was read or something though.

I think it is kind of cool to have you here. I know you will get valuable insight for MS as we hold no punches around here. I kinda wish your Sony and Nintendo counterparts would join in as well, since I think you will be able to bring news of value to us, and since we know your perspective (PR Guy) we can judge it accordingly. Plus if your counterparts were here, those threads that turn into such and such is better could become even more fun.