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Xbox Unveiling Tonight on MTV
GamesIndustry.biz has a reminder that the Elijah Woods hosted Xbox 360 unveiling will be happening tonight on MTV. From the article: "Microsoft has already said that it will demonstrate 'the Xbox vision for the next generation,' which 'ensures that the user experience is always connected, always personalised and always in high definition'."
i wonder if it'll bsod this time? or is it a gsod now?
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There is a massive section in my local newspaper on this today. M$ claim by 2006, xbox will have close to 40% of the market, while PS2 will have 50%.
While I own a PS2, I look at games like Forza Racing on the xbox and it's competition like this that we desperately need. Games like Gran Turismo has been sitting at the top for too long.
Xbox...Elijah Wood...MTV...
It's the three things I despise the most.
Seriously, what demographic is Microsoft trying to reach? The people who know the least about good gaming? Oh, wait, I think I figured it out...
Seems like they should have unveiled it instead on CNN on "Anderson Cooper 360". It fits with the name better than unveiling it on the "48 Hour Road Rules Marathon" channel.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
"And the three things I despise the most,"
Xbox, Elijah, and MTV's host"
They caught a virus, and now they're toast
Because... the Xbox...fried.
And they were singin'...
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Have you seen the supposed specs? The thing is more powerful than a majority of PCs on the market now. The games will push toward the ultimate goal of being photorealistic. MS has already lost a ton of money on the xbox, IMO with the goal being market dominance.
1. Lose a buttload on xbox, gaining market recognition.
2. Sell system that blows the pants off anything coming out for the next 6 months to a year, AND before christmas.
3. Profit!
We used to call it the Malcolm X-box, spiritual successor to the IHaveADreamcast.
I believe the demo is the multiplayer section, correct? That is new. The single player is the remake of the original. The single player adventure has been censored (who would have thought that nintendo would have the "adult" version of the game...) and made significantly easier. According to the preview on IGN, the game took the player around 20 hours on the original version and only 7 hours on the remake...
No wonder obesity's such a problem! Kids aren't just eating food, but eating technology as well!
Yes. I've seen EVERY NES title crash.
Towards the end of my NES console's life, getting a game to run for more than an hour was an effort. There was even a procedure: blow in it twice, blow in the console, wipe the contacts with alcohol, allow to dry, PRAY, then turn the console on. If the screen wasn't totally garbage, you could get a few levels into a game like SMB3 before either the picture corrupted or the game just froze. And even worse, there was a chance it would corrupt your save games (remember to hold in the reset button while turning off your console!)
Don't get me started on the phonebooks I had to put on top of the RF Adapter to keep that working. I've stripped and spliced enough of those buggers to figure out this neat little trick: if you get one of those old Atari GAME/ANTENNA RF adapters with the composite port on the bottom (the kind with the tines you screw into the TV, or attach to a Coax converter), you can use a plain jane $.99 composite cable from the back of the NES and it'll work fine. Much easier then shelling out 10-15 bucks for the Nintendo RF adapter!
I was looking at Rare's newest offering for the X-Box and realized it isjust a rehash of Conker's Bad Fur Day. Nothing against conker, but can't Rare at least put him in a new adventure instead of just prettying up an older game?
Wow, you're pretty clever. I never thought of that!
(You realize it was announced as remake, right? The new stuff is the extensive multiplayer mode.)
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I work at a retail store, and the Xbox rep. was in today, making sure that I know about the unveiling on MTV. He let me know that the name was going to be call Xenon, not the 360. I'm assuming that that is the correct spelling.
Anyway, thought you'd like to know, if you didn't already.
One thing about consoles is they should NEVER crash for any reason. If this gets pushed out too early it will be crash friendly like the early x-box I believe?
You ever seen SMB3 crash? Heck no!
I'm making the point that, YES, I have seen consoles crash. Specificly, I HAVE seen SMB3 crash, due to the flawed combo of a weak-72 pin connector and a sensitive Lockout chip.
Relevant line from that link: Unfortunately, inadequate testing of this design prior to release resulted in one of the NES's most infamous problems
I believe these kinds of "rush-to-market" flaws are exactly what the GP is complaining about, so an NES game was probably the worst example.
history of gaming according to xbox:
pacman, atari, xbox, xbox in hd...
the game footage they showed was terrible.
doom3 has better graphics.
i thought this thing was supposed to be more advanced than today's PCs.
with a product such as this, there's no way they'll be able to keep up with real next gen consoles...
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
All I have to say is
The Phantom is dead!!!!
Long live the Phantom!!!!!
Xbox 360 kind of looks like a Phantom on Steroids. Infinum Labs could learn alot from Microsoft's unveiling.
I can just hear it...
"Boys I'm buying you a Phantom for Christmas"
"But Grandma if you get us an Xbox 360 we can give you our X-box for you house so we can play games with you when we visit"
"You boys are so good looking out for Grandma, now if we can just get your lazy as father off the couch"
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http://www.mtv.com/games/video_games/xbox/index.jh tml
Note - requires nasty proprietary combinations of Windows, Media Player, Internet Explorer, and DRM. I've seen the future, and it is locked down. They're also, oddly enough, significantly longer than what was shown on MTV.
These videos do show an impressive amount of physics, which is really what is missing from gaming currently. The graphics don't seem to be enough to wow, and I'm not looking forward to how much that much content will cost to develop, but certainly having that much extra processing power will come in handy. Hopefully it will go to making a better gaming experience rather than just a higher-poly, more normal mapped / enviornment mapped one. Condemned didn't give much hope, but the draw distance and physics in the other games was impressive.
Unfortunately, the most impressive things on new systems seem to be the tech demos. I remember the Xbox ping-pong demo was just stunning, probably moreso than the first round of games, as was the detail on the Dolphin for the Dolphin, or the PS2 shell screen. I'm kind of sad that there aren't any really "wow" demos for the Xbox 360, as a good tech demo is always an impressive, if pointless piece of eye candy.
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