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Xbox 360 Press Event News
by Maarten Goldstein, May 16, 2005 8:00pm PDTAll sorts of fun facts coming out of Microsoft's E3 2005 Xbox 360 press event. Story will be updated as they come in.
- Xbox 360 will have limited backward compatability. Only the most popular Xbox games will be supported, through an emulator.
- Square Enix is releasing Final Fantasy XI on the 360, with Live support. First of several Square Enix games on the platform.
- More than 160 games are in development.
- During a 90 day launch window Microsoft hopes that between 25 and 40 Xbox 360 games are released.
- You can buy movies and music online through the 360
- All games must support 720p, a 16:9 aspect ratio, anti-aliasing and 5.1 multi channel sound.
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So "emulator" likely means "recompile your code and give us the new EXE"
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For one, it's NOT Microsoft, it's all of the game publishers that own the code.
For another, these are businesses with proprietary information. The open source movement has its very good uses, and people with completely impractical ideas of the application of open source are the ones that give it a stigma.
And don't even think of pointing to id as an example. By the time anything at id goes open source, everyone is already doing what the engine does. The secrets are out there, though I will admit that part of that is because id are quite forthcoming.
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