In an interview with Globe, M-Systems President and CEO Dov Moran confirmed what gamers have been speculating for months. Xbox 2 won"t have a hard disc. When asked about its technology development agreement with Microsoft Corporation, Mr Moran said:
"It"s a cooperation agreement. The potential isn"t clear, but it"s in the billions of dollars. Microsoft has taken the hard disk out of its Xbox. The only thing left will be a CD; that"s all. At some point, when users want to save their e-mail messages, copy music, or anything like that, the only storage they"ll have is what we give them. It"s worth hundreds of millions to the company, spread over a few years, and we"ll be the main supplier for it; and I hope the sole supplier.