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State of the 360

Posted by Zonk on from the good-ship-xbox dept.

IGN is reporting on The State of the Xbox 360, detailing information on the next-gen console since this past E3. From the article: "Coming into the home stretch here, it's clear Microsoft has had its fair share of problems. The MTV event, though brilliantly conceived, was a hype-without-substance infomercial that impressed nobody, especially the most important people -- gamers. At the actual MTV event, I did an informal poll which revealed that three-fourths of the people attending were there only to see the Killers. E3 was underwhelming to put it mildly, and the summer months proved to be vacant of everything but rumors, leaks, and more rumors and leaks. The Tokyo Game show helped Microsoft's cause a little, and Microsoft finally revealed its Japanese pricing and the worldwide release dates, leaving one major news announcement left open - the day-and-date launch games. Apparently, Microsoft and friends are still working on these last details."

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  1. Re:Which is surprising... by Freexe · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Revolution will have alot higher specs than the current gamecude (and if you have played resident evil 4 you will know that they were high already) plus wifi built in, the disks will be bigger enabling more space etc...

    Just like all the next gen machines, the has been losts of little improvements, but this time the controller will add a new dimension to the control, and this will come as standard.

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  2. Dreamcast 360 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Even the Dreamcast 360 label seems a little silly now. The Dreamcast was another dead before it hit the shelves console, but I don't think Sega could have had more disasters with their Dreamcast pre-launch if they had tried.

    I don't think we will ever see a console launch disaster of this magnitude ever again.

    Going all the way back to the 2600, I can't think of any console that even is in the same league as the 360's year long release and launch fiasco. Jaguar, CDi, Dreamcast...none of them are close to MS's 360 disaster.

  3. Re:Which is surprising... by AsiNisiMasa · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...the controller that for all that matters could have been shipped as a gamecube addon. The problem with that argument is that games are rarely designed with peripherals in mind. Not many developers would want to cut their market drasticcally by making a GC game that uses a different controller.

    The games of the Revolution will all be designed with this new controller in mind - Mario, Link, &co. will all be re-invented to fit the new design.

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  4. For those who didn't RTFA... by animejoe · · Score: 2, Informative
    The guy who started this thread posted the first paragraph in the IGN piece. That first paragraph definitely gives the impression that the 360 is going to fail miserably. However, if you actually read the entire article, you're left with a slightly different impression. Here's the final paragraph.
    Despite Microsoft's rough start, and a lineup that doesn't have a single, clear-cut killer app, this launch is really just the start of a much broader assault. The 25-plus launch window titles are like appetizers at a party, with the main course to come. These first games are just meant to whet your whistle. They'll be good, but the real innovation, the genuinely astonishing next-gen titles won't come out until 2006. I can tell you this, though, when you get and actually play those games, damn, are you going to have geeked-out, high-tech fun. When you connect that Xbox 360 to your HD TV and Dolby 5.1-enabled stereo, you're going to find out just how sophisticated, deep, and fun the box itself is. When you boot up Call of Duty 2, Project Gotham Racing 3, NBA 2K6, whatever it is, the long slow summer of waiting, the mistakes we've all been witness to, and that bothersome worry in the back of your head, will quickly fade.
    Not exactly something that instills confidence, but not the prophecy of doom that many self-proclaimed gamers would have you believe. I'd suggest waiting for the release of the system to pass judgement on it. At the very least, wait until the end of X05 when MS is likely to have shown more telling screens and video of its launch line-up.