Uh-oh, disagree central is coming your way from PS fans. I will agree because you're correct in a sense, no game for any console, besides maybe the Wii Wii is using the entire potential of the system. But this is really great news because everything they do will now be done more efficiently, apparently by locking down certain chunks of data for one core, and so on and so on. Great news, wonder how big of an effect it will have on the games.

Edit:: Just wanted to add that this also is good because this will help free up resources to make reaching stable framerates etc. that much easier.

all your missing now, is a much much better GPU and another 3.5gig of Ram. and maybe you'll see crysis running at 200p.

EDIT: disagrees? yeah your probably right, you'll need a better CPU to.
oh and by the way, all that ^^ includes the PS3.

mighty_douche - maybe your getting disagrees because youre being, well, a douche. Why would you need another 3.5GB of ram? Windows Vista never goes above using 1GB. When I played Crysis on my computer, it still didnt. If you would like proof of this, here is someone with 4GB of ram where Crysis is only using about 850MB:
http://www.hardforum.com/sh...

Also, in the 360 and PS3, if developers use them in the most efficient way then they can be made to do this. But Crysis was developed in a PC way, not a 360 and PS3 (they have separate ways but bare with me) and both have Crysis competitors coming. Whether it be Warhound or Killzone 2.

I think ease of programming has been and Xbox brand advantage since the original Xbox ... I would imagine that will always be a strong point to developing games for MS.

Threading is a lightweight process. With the help of threads we can increase the response time of the game.
I've writen some simply multithreaded and is a pain in the @$$... which is why most developers avoid it like the plaque.

Here is a good article that explain the benefit and why is so difficult.

http://visualstudiomagazine...

Damn.. I know the .NET Compact Framework (included in the xbox 360) have a few namespaces that allows for this... but this API will make life a lot easier...

It could be. But what does it give you now? One can put a Ferrari Engine in a Lada, it won't drive as fast.

Thus: no use for a gamer right here, right now. I think MS is taking huge steps in their already great development environment. I am curious what this will do for gaming and games on the 360 in 2008, compared to the PS3.

@ Douche (below)

Well you don't know as much about cars as you think probably. I bet the engine will tear the chassis apart, thus slowing down in the end pretty much.

Not being able to brake or turn is also a bad way. More bottlenecks there!

You get my point though.

ummm i think you'll find it will! it might not turn or stop but it'll certainly go faster.

you obviously know less about cars than tech so just stick to the tech huh.

I think you will find it would run into a bit of a bottleneck when the power hits the gearbox.

Pretty lame huh? Everything you said was spot on. Microsoft does a great job with tools. and no console is maxed right now. Yep that's alot to disagree with, it's disagreeing to disagree I presume.

1- You log into the 360 forum
2- You scan the headlines
3- if any posts reflect well on the 360 you go in and disagree with everything positive in them.

Hint: count the "disagree";'s; its always the same amount across the board.

Most likely its the same IDs disagreeing with everything, possibly all belonging to the same kid. :-)

Actually the 1st game to utilize all 3 cores is a future xboxlive game called Schizoid. I believe that alan uses all three but in a different manner by using cores for specfic tasks in the game where as you have Schizoid and other future titles that will use all of the 3 to 6 dual threaded cores pulling from one pool rather than dividing them up. What I find interesting is that they are finally getting a hold on the 3 cores but then they will get a hold even later in the 360's lifecycle to run them in dual to where there using six!

Lol yes. I am about to go to work at Abercrombie and Fitch, dammit being a store manager, pays the bills though, haha anyways I won't go as far as planning anything, but I will for sure rather be playing ME than managing 18 yr old boys/girls and dealing with spoiled kids and their rich parents.

edit:: god I sound old. I'm talking about 18 yr olds as if I am a old person, lol I am only 22, maybe I am old, damn, this sucks :)

Makes you feel any better I refer to anyone who is younger than 22 as kds. And I'm only 24, but I do this for a reason. That reason being as soon as most people turn 21, they go out on a yearly "I can buy drinks all I want" free for all. And they should, its fun...for about 1 year. Then it just gets old and costly. Of course their are the ones who don't stop but thats a whole other issue.

*Note I don't mean stop drinking all together, but stopping the frequency and amount.

Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.