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everytime i hear about microsoft and bill gates i have this negative perception. then i read from a microsoft employee's blog about what's it really like there http://www.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/work ing_at_microsoft.html honestly, between gates and jobs, it's hard to think of them as real people. very hard. i'd like to just go up to them on the street and not be overwhelmed with fandom or anger. it's very very hard to shake the politics i've been exposed to for a decade. it was hard enough to stop viewing jobs as the bad guy when i switched to a mac! gates contributes billions to charity, competes with many companies, pushing technology forward. he's got a great house. he works with apple too. it's not so black and white. but emotionally, it's very hard to not hate or love jobs and gates :(

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No karma whoring intended, posting as AC.

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No karma whoring intended, posting as AC.

So, I dealt with it slowly and passively, you dealt with it quickly and actively, but in both cases we treated it as a big deal, and we dealt with it, and the end result was... we were gone.

Michael Brundage says, "28% of the managers I had at Microsoft were so awful" that in future, there wouldn't be room for him and either of them in the same organization... but it's not big deal.

But then again, I notice he's posted his resume

Later!

Your numbers betray you, indeed it grows but most people are content with offlien play

People used to say the same thing about cable. Look where it's at now. Once people try online gaming, they're hooked. If you assume an even distribution of gamers for Xbox & PS2 are interested in online gaming, then this would yield a significant increase in market share and initial sales for the Xbox360.

little under half of them cannot pay anything a month

If they can't afford $50, they can't afford to purchase a single video game, and they certainly can't afford a console. Oh wait, their parents bought them that stuff? Gee, I wonder what else fits in the xmas stocking ...

But when it came out, it was the cheapest (or close to) thing in Japan that played DVD's. You are forgetting when the machiens firts came out $500 for a panasonic DVd player was par for the course, for the same price you could get a PS2. Thats why PS2 has such a huge install base and that's why sony waited until blu-ray to make the PS3. Their gambling on a similiar effect.

There is a difference this time around: Blu-ray isn't "the" established standard. People aren't going to be purchasing them because they want both a next gen movie format + game box -- they don't know which format will come on top. This means that only people who are convinced that blu-ray will come out on top will consider this a good deal.

You also have a GPU whose instruction sets and design are IP of a company that wants nothing to do with the box. They could just obstract it back into pure Direct X and nto the xbox variant but they will nee dgame specific hacks.

Microsoft made announcment awhile back about having licensed the appropriate IP. In fact, you can read about it here: http://www.gamepro.com/microsoft/xbox360/games/new s/45969.shtml

Have you ever run an emulator? Generally every game varies, some are 100% other have graphic glitches ect.. The PS2 incorporated the PS1 chip as a IO processor and it even had glitches. Now a 100% software solution is possible, but you need unique software hacks for a lot of games.

Exactly right. No solution will be 100% compatible, which is why you didn't see absurd statements about the xbox 360 being 100% compatible with the xbox (and why I scoff every time Sony claims 100% backwards compatibility, because it is a baldfaced lie). They're targeting as many games as possible, starting with the most popular games and working their way down the list. It is certainly an accomplishable goal, unlike your previous statement where you said it would be impossible.

But don't take my word for it; you can read what the guy actually making it work has to say about it: http://www.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/xbox 360.html

You can also read a few more details about how they plan on performing the emulation here: http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=50574

I doubt that the compatibility will be near the 100% level, but I'd be willing to bet that they hit 80%. And personally, I could give a crap if "Bob's adventures in peanut land" works if the games I want to play don't (this was the problem with the PS2 ... half of my [admitedly small] PS1 library didn't work right on the PS2).

And if MS is going to be Backwards compatable they would have trumpetted it as a feature. I hear very little buzz about that.

They announced it at E3. What else do you expect them to be doing at this point?