Microsoft has denied that its decision to push back the Japanese launch of its X-box console to 22 February next year will have any knock-on effect on its planned European launch. Although it is yet to set a date for Europe, the software giant says it will do so in October, and that its European manufacturing plant is nearing final readiness to begin production of the consoles. Richard Teversham, UK marketing manager for X-box, told vnunet.com: "We will have hundreds of thousands of X-boxes ready for our European launch in the first quarter of 2002."
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