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Rumor suggests Xbox One will launch in China in late 2014

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Microsoft may launch the Xbox One video game console in China in late 2014 through a joint venture with a Chinese company, according to a report from Kotaku.

Consoles are still banned in China, though many systems are available on the black market. But many have speculated that the Communist regime may lift the ban, and it got more fuel today thanks to a story published by one of China’s big tech sites, Sohu IT.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.