“Some more details have leaked out about Microsoft’s unannounced-but-well-known WiFi-enabled digital music player that shed some light on its role in Microsoft’s overall home entertainment strategy — though you’ll still have to deal with that blurry pic for now. According to sources cited by The Seattle Times, the upcoming DAP is only one of several offerings that will be part of a larger lineup of Xbox-branded products, which will also include Microsoft’s upcoming online media service — the one that will dupe all your iTunes tracks for free — and a dedicated software media player. Codenamed Project Argo, this initiative is said to be spearheaded by Xbox co-founder J Allard, and is rumored to support the so-called XNA toolkit for allowing developers to easily port games to multiple platforms — possibly setting the stage for that heavily-rumored Xbox2Go. There’s not too much here that we didn’t already know, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that Redmond has a definite battle plan for waging war against Apple and others in your living room (and pocket), and that the company is starting to make good on its promise of turning the 360 into a true digital hub.” — Engadget
Wow could things get better on this? First we’re getting all this new hardware from microsoft from christmas (i love microsoft hardware :) ) and now we’re hearing rumors that not only will the MSpod be a nice combatant to the iPod but theres a chance it will be taking on the PSP and DS as well? Interesting but i’d love to see how they pull it off… I really hope it joins the “Live Anywhere” moniker and gets the arcade access… i have about a dozen games on XBLA that i’d love to play on a handheld :)
Source: Joystiq
