XBOX X02 FULL CONFERENCE (2002 Event) Fable, Sudeki, Kameo, Rare, Project Gotham Racing 2, Xbox Live

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Adam Doree

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Published on March 11, 2023 2:40:53 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In9B6C6d4yI

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Project Gotham Racing 2 (2003)

Duration: 54:52

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Among the "lost" footage I've been rediscovering from my personal archives is Microsoft's entire X02 presentation from Seville, Spain in September 2002. I remember the event very fondly as one of the best press trips of the era (they hired an entire theme park for it). The presentation itself was pretty solid for those days, though it did have high and low points as you will see. The whole thing has almost certainly never been published online in its entirety before (even back in 2002), so I hope it's interesting for gaming fans, preservationists and historians alike.

In fact, *any* footage from X02 seems to be practically non-existent online in 2023 (aside from my own Rare interview video, link below). This whole time, I had source tapes of multiple angles of the conference... both our on-site direct feed recording (which didn't include any game video), plus our recorded cam footage (which did), so I've mixed it together for preservation and nostalgia as always... I already uploaded the Rare acquisition clip separately a week ago, but thanks to people watching my videos, I decided to add the 55-minute conference, pretty much "in full"... including actual trailers shown for Fable, Sudeki, Kameo and Project Gotham Racing 2, plus the Rare acquisition sequence. However, also shown was Splinter Cell and Unreal Tournament, but I do not have sources for those videos, nor can I find these X02 videos anywhere online (based on matching audio). If they're ever located, we can add them here in the comments/description.

One of the fascinating things about early Xbox press events like this (aside from how lavish they were in a way that is rarely if ever seen nowadays) was how in Microsoft's tone you can clearly tell they felt like they had everything to prove to a sceptical media, and were really trying to win everyone over as the new kids on the block. Turns out it worked!

Chapters in this video --
I have no idea why (on all my videos) chapters sometimes work and then sometimes don't (really annoying, sorry), but here goes:

00:00 Intro by a very young me
00:41 Conference starts - lights/lasers
02:23 Xbox's award-winning TV advert
03:49 Sandy Duncan (Xbox Europe boss)
09:35 Ed Fries (Studios/Games boss)
13:47 Project Gotham Racing 2
15:15 Sudeki first ever announcement
18:07 Peter Molyneux Pt 1
19:09 Fable
21:01 Peter Molyneux Pt 2
23:20 J Allard (Xbox co-boss)
30:29 Michel Cassius (Europe exec - Xbox Live)
35:28 Jay Wilbur - Epic Games / Unreal
39:33 Yves Guillemot - Ubisoft CEO / Splinter Cell
43:53 Ed Fries - Rare Acquisition Announcement
44:37 Rareware Video Sequence
45:58 Rare announcement continued
47:11 Chris and Tim Stamper (Rare co-founders)
48:56 Kameo (Rare) first ever Xbox video
51:25 Sandy - Controller S announcement & wrap up
53:52 Outro sequence


See also:
Rare clip only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uo1-AATvnE
Xbox prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG_4EGDZbBU
Fable documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8BNlhkKtmU

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