My point exactly. Friends come over play some xbox on the HDTV and then they go out and get it. They are amazed by the features like the friends lists, marketplace and the convience of downloading demos. Even little things like playing music in the background of a game gets them excited.
I am a 1 console man.
Sounds like a rip off. Shouldnt it be atleast $40 to $45
Nvidia hates Ati, Microsoft and Nintendo. Microsoft kept bashing Nvidia for their bad business last generation. Nintendo always went with Ati and now it appears microsoft's new friends is Ati since they designed the GPU for the xbox 360, the decoders in the HD-DVD drive and rumors that ati is also working on the Zune. Especially now the AMD bought Ati they will get the cash boast and more attention but ati is the worlds largest gpu maker so they can handle the extra work.
Just played it, too retro for me. I perfer arcade games like Cloning Cylde, the marbel game, small arms, etc.
It won't go to 4.0Ghz, simply because it gets too hot. Thats why sony wanted to do 2.8Ghz. The xbox 360 was intially ran near 4.0Ghz as well but it was taken down because it was too hot. As for ram sure the developers want more but it costs too much. The xbox 360 was intially developed with 256MB and then boast to 512MB and it cost microsoft an extra billion dollars to do so. Developer units have extra specs since they run extra programs that won't be on the final units.
Its because the ps3 was originally supposed to launch in spring but then got delayed to november. So actually proof that sony just outright lied about the spring launch of the ps3 and it was meant for november the whole time since the final kits only went out during may.
The developer goal is to putting as much into the game without dropping framerate. The amount of things they can put in depends on code effiecency, the ps3 is hard to code for so 30% efficency might be a good thing. What people need to know is the processor is still running at 100% it's just that due to poor coding only 30% of the work is actually used.
Exactly. All games that are shipped are using 100% of the processor. What determines the quality is how effiecent the code is. In this case mercenaries is only 30% effiecent, we heard from ps3 developers its hard to develop for the system which is why the code isn't efficent. Same for xbox 360 games like Gears of War and lost planet are using efficent code which is why Gears of War demo was only running on 1 core and still beat almost all the present xbox 360 games visually.
Peter moore said the current demo of Gears of War was 80% visually of what Epic will acheive when the game is shipped. The game was only running on 1 core of the xbox 360. Same for mercenaries 2 it will run the processor at 100% but the coding is only 30% effiecent. Tons of loops will cut the effiecency.
Great demo, but you have to know it's not a basic shooting game. It's an RTS and once you know how to play its great.
Little early there, it's not up till 4AM eastern
Most of it is due to all the events they hold. And don't forget the development costs of all the first party titles like Halo 3, Forza 2, GOW, Viva Pinate, Too Human, Mass Effect, Etc.
Not Really
LOL
how much of those actually work? :|
I'm sure you do
Sorry xbox 360 only, well its also for PC
Microsoft is a really smart company they know and live software. They can use software to make some incredible things. Look at Halo 1 -> Halo 2. Using the exact same hardware they pulled off a huge jump in visual, audio and A.I quality. Microsoft knows exactly what they are doing and where this industry is heading which is why they rarely backtract on what they are doing unlike sony. Sony thought the future was 2 HDMI ports and using a video game console as a network hub. Guess what they s...
I doubt games will ever be released on HD-DVD this generation. Simply because Blu-ray/HD-DVD stream speeds are not fast enough to stream game data. The ps3 stream rate is about 60% of that of the xbox 360. The ps3 has the benefit of storing more data but the xbox 360 can read more data at once. What does this mean to us well we have little to no loading time for xbox 360 games. This is why games like saints row can have no loading times.