More Powerhouse Designers on Next-Gen Xbox

Just a few days after the announcement that the creator of the Final Fantasy series was joining Microsoft Games Studio, Voodoo Express has the news that more venerable designers will be joining the company. Yoshiki Okamoto and Tetsuya Mizuguchi will be teaming up with Microsoft Games to produce titles for the next generation Xbox. From the article: "Microsoft is now happy to announce that the driving creative minds behind the likes of Resident Evil, Rez, Street Fighter and Space Channel 5 have joined forces with the company to create exciting new titles for the Xbox Next, primarily designed to attract Japanese gamers to the system:"

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Re:OT question

[sw33tjimmy]

might have something to do with their webserver being fubar. have you been to that site lately? they're running on backup right now.

Re:Beautiful, or Completely Incorrect?

[rnd()]

Capitalism is indeed beautiful...just like the free agency market in sports is...from the standpoint of the free agent only.

Not at all. Capitalism is beautiful because someone is paying the cost of the talent and benefitting... in baseball that is typically the team's owner and shareholders. Fans also benefit because they choose to watch games, buy tickets, etc.

Re:beautiful? hideous

[rnd()]

C# is a revolutionary improvement over Java and is much closer to the ideal that Java has been striving toward for quite some time. Many of the language features are quite elegant and expressive, and it took someone with a very strong design sense to put it all together and still have it make sense to the vb programmers who make up a large part of the microsoft talent pool in a lot of companies.

The sister post rips apart your criticism of the x-box. For a company with no experience to become a serious contender in one shot is fairly impressive.

SQL Server is a fantastic database, and in my benchmarks it's 500 times faster than mysql without indexing and 100 times faster with indexing. I know those numbers sound farfetched, but testw were run on identical hardware, identical table structure, etc.

WINNT hal was designed by some of the premier OS designers and in its day was one of the more advanced approaches to OS design, in many respects, which you can read about.

The title.

[schild]

The most important thing in this article is the title of the Xbox Next. It's not the 360, it's the Xbox Next. No one would name their system the 360. It's just too goddamned stupid.