Game Industry Experts Discuss Xbox 2

Alan Wong writes "Taken from the latest issue of Xbox Nation magazine, 1UP.com has posted a feature entitled Doing The Right Thing, where eleven industry insiders discussed what it would take for Microsoft to make the next Xbox a success. Among the panel members were Nolan Bushnell, Trip Hawkins, Steven Kent, Bioware's Greg Zeschuk."

Comments

Re:I'm not experienced with the industry...

[Jarlsberg]

Come on, you got to try harder than that ;)

Trip Hawkins tried to compete in the market with 3D0. No sucess, but I'm sure it taught him something about the console biz.
http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=100496

Steven Kent. Writer - here's his book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0970475500/ qid%3D1015862334/sr%3D1-5/gamingageonli-20/002-162 5945-0001657

Greg Zeschuk. Bioware -- ring a bell? Bioware did the enormously successfull Neverwinter nights game. It's even got a Linux client, for heaven's sake.
http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html

Bioware has Xbox experience, too

[radicalskeptic]

Don't forget, while Bioware's Neverwinter Nights was not released for the Xbox, they also produced Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, probably still the best RPG released for Microsoft's console. They're also working on Jade Empire , which will be an Xbox exclusive, and was specifically designed from the start for the Xbox.

Re:what it would take for Microsoft to make the ne

[phaze3000]

Imagine my happy surprise when I walked in the room and saw 4 Xboxes connected via System Link and projected onto big screens. We played for 2 or 3 hours every night, and people who weren't even videogame fans got into the action.

I really don't think people would have/could have done this with the other consoles.

Actually, this could have been done with a Gamecube and network adapters. Mario Kart DD multiplayer is a hell of a lot of fun.

I have all three consoles. For me what makes the XBox different is the type of titles you get on it - it naturally attracts a lot of PC developers. I doubt we'd see anything too much like Fable on the other two consoles.