Microsoft's handheld to be revealed on March 2?

[crazyjohn]

@ sheng - I noticed that too. As far as I can tell from those screenies it is a small tablet PC made inhouse by micro$oft. It appears to be running windows XP tablet edition (does that 'paint' program look familiar to you?) . This also explains the halo bit. If its on a regular x86 platform, and previding it had a graphics accelerator ofcorse it can run halo. As has now been stated by microshaft these pics are real but are a year old so it may have a completly different form factor by now and the software should be a bit more 'disguesed'.

[cal360]

it looks more like a PDA

[mexicansnake]

lol is toooooooo big looks like a brick!!!!.

[sithmaster]

id buy it just to play halo on the go and homebrew and roms

[CalvinDu]

EUuuugh!! look at the buttons xD

I'm sure the touch screen will make that up

[paco1984]

xbox360 will have one year advance on the game sales against ps3... but the 360 isnt realy catching my eye or prety much any other person i know's eye. the thing sucks. i mean if theyre realy trying to reach everyone why arent there any realy good games. maybe if they showed me something that realy looks fun id reconsidder. but untill then its still just a handfull of purty grafix and un-inovative gameplay. oh and kameo sucks it should have just been canceled instead of delayed and released.

[paco1984]

i dont know i dont see myself playing street fighter or any game that requires some kind of quick button movements. looks clumsy like i would drop it if i held it a little wrong.

[Hidavi]

Its toooo bigggggg. Its not a game console!!! Like any other handheld device (even the IPod) it'll be able to play games, but it won't be a gaming machine.

[ace_t]

Check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...=search_videos

[Cap'n 1time]

This is pure speculation...
If the software is just your average x86 based pc software... then this thing is going to cost more then the machines actual production cost.

Rather then a console - which generally costs less then it takes to make it but makes up for that with software sells this could just be a PC. That being said, in order for MS to make a profit off of this they will have to sell this gadget at a higher price then it took to produce it. I'd say look at a price >$600.

Thats just speculation btw.