Late Night Consoling

That guy with the lawsuit must be lazy. I called the Xbox support number last friday and had my 360 troubleshooted. That didn't work so they sent me a box next day shipping and I got it today.

I placed my 360, PSU, and cables inside and packed it up. I went to the DHL webpage and requested a pickup and within 5 minutes the DHL guy shows up. He took my box and gave me a receipt with tracking number.

MS says it takes about 5 business days to have my 360 repaired (maybe even replaced!). So this level of service is unprecedented.

That be cool if Sony could match this level of service when PS3 hits.

At Least 10% of Xbox 360s Sold on Ebay.....

Isn't this supposed to be illigeal? Isn't this the same as scalping tickets, buying up a whole pile, and then selling them at elavated prices?

I can't see this sort of thing being allowed to continue...

Ok, you know what sucks? Being at work when a huge debate goes on and you have something you wish to add but can’t. Now as a consequence you get to “enjoy” another really long post-debate volley from myself. I’ve placed it in LNC since it would fit best in here, and I’d rather not mess up the latest chatty with it. Also, in LNC I may be able to get away with leaving it all in the route post.

Alright, there are a couple things I’d like to touch on here. First is going to have to be the Revolution performance “details” IGN is displaying. IBM’s Broadway processor was supposedly only finished 2 weeks ago, at which time IBM showed the design document and a prototype to Nintendo and a few select developers. As yet we have no word on ATI’s Hollywood. Now, IGN indicates that the developers would only talk under the insurance of anonymity (a smart move on their part), but that limits what kind of information they can really reveal (detailed information would obviously narrow down any trace effort Nintendo started). The information they do disclose indicates that the system is comparable to a current gen Xbox in some fashion, but more powerful. I don’t find that terribly encouraging, but there is something else that came to mind. How was this developer drawing the comparison without specs on the GPU? Were they simply comparing clock speed/throughput on Broadway? I find this an odd comparison considering that an IBM rep indicated during an interview Nintendo’s primary goal was to look for “ways to better display graphics, speed up the processing power [of the Rev], and make it more user-friendly…” If Nintendo invested millions of dollars into developing this, then there has to be something more to it than Xbox comparable.

IGN also mentions that the system has 128MB of system memory, tops, and knocks it for the texture detail problems that the system will encounter because of that. If you’re going to not show the image at 720p, why would you need the textures detail to drive it? A significantly lower output resolution (480p) doesn’t need the same size textures that the 360 would use to give you a comparable image (leaving resolution out of it) – ‘pixel quality’ as armybob calls it.

Side notes:
-There was another article where developers dished on the 360 under promises of anonymity that indicated the 360’s processor was at best 3X more powerful than the current Xbox’s P3/Celeron. I’m sure you all remember that article, it was posted by Anandtech and shortly after was taken down; it generated a pretty large amount of controversy over the validity.

-The caption for the MP3 image asks the question whether it represents a marginal improvement over the Gamecube – well, it was rendered on a Gamecube, so take what you will from that.

-I would like to know which 3rd parties are commenting on this so I can judge their competence with the Gamecube hardware and weigh their comments in light of that, but that’s not possible

-The article seems written to cause a stir

The next thing I would like to chime in on is the reaction by some people. I would just like to say that this really should not have changed anything; you were either interested in this before now, or you weren’t. The CPU doesn’t measure up to what you imagine the 360’s performance to be, and I’ll bet that the 360’s CPU doesn’t measure up to what the Cell turns out to be. We’re just facing increasingly challenging chipsets to battle with as their performance goes up. We don’t know the extent of the power gap; hell, we don’t even know what each CPU is capable of driving at this point.

The last thing I’m going to mention is that there seems to be a very similar feel here. The same sort of exuberant enthusiasm for the DS, shown initially by few, is following this system. It seems that those daring enough to imagine the possibilities the control scheme offers are really excited about the console, while those who aren’t recurrently harp on the graphical downsides the system supposedly possesses – much like people built up the PSP initially. Sure there are tons of people who love their PSPs and there will be tons of people who love their 360s and PS3s – they’re definitely powerful machines and have some really dazzling graphics, and I’m sure games will come that you will enjoy – but I’ll be damned if I wasn’t right about the DS, and I’m certain I’m right about this unit.

How many of you are getting turned off by the same gameplay, regardless of who makes the game? How good was PD:0?

10% sold on ebay, that's insane. Remind me to buy 3 PS3s to sell.

Wow, SEGA gets the Olympics.

I hope they can make it as fun as Summer Games / Winter Games / World Games from Epyx was on the C64. Those games rocked back in the day.

You wanted to use all of the icons so you made the Sega Olympic story didn't you Remo.

You know Guitar Hero rocks when the woman (who doesn't play video games) can't wait to go home and play Godzilla. She's graduated from Easy to Medium and loves it. :-D

Our second guitar controller should be here on Friday. Can't wait to try out the multiplayer.

I really wanted to get the Revolution, but the lack of HD has totally changed my mind. After spending a week with the 360, my ability to play games for hours has increased because the HD is much easier on my eyes. If I play my Gamecube or Dreamcast, my eyes start hurting and I get a headache after 2 hours or so.

I understand most people don't have HDTV's, but obviously that is changing.

The guy filing the lawsuit is an idiot. If you buy a product and it's defective, you return it. It's really simple. You don't fucking sue the company that made it just because it's not working for you. I can see if it was something dangerous, but not being able to play SSX 3 or whatever is not a big deal.

And anyone who would wait in line for hours or pay twice the price for something as non-essential as a gaming console is apparently not bright enough to realize that with new technology comes new problems. I say screw him. Just because he can be the first on his block to have bragging rights doesn't justify another senseless lawsuit. In fact he's so annoying I think I'll look into suing him for causing me to even think about his stupid lawsuit.

Did anyone else read "modern pentathalon" as "modern penetration"?

No? Oh... =(

Haha. Australia gets roped in with fucking Hong Kong. Those poor beautiful Aussie bastards.

Do you get bonus points in Guitar Hero for finger tapping?

Gawd I hate you Remo I want guitar hero so bad. I listened through the sound track yesterday on their website like 90% badass I hear they have an extra bonus frezzepop track too (best tracks in frequency and amplitude made by them).

why do all companies seem to want to fuck australia with software releases and such?

that is insane, 10%

was thinking the same thing, take out a home equity loan and preorder 50 ps3s x 300$ avg profit on ebay = money

"[...]and probably the best gfx the Renderware engine has ever produced" Come on, even Burnout 2 almost looks better than Cold Fear, and that has been out forever. And then compare Burnout 3 to it, or the upcoming game Black.

It was a decent horror game yes, but the graphics; nothing special.

As a Sony fanboy (actually a Playstation fanboy, cuz $ony iz evil lolz q) I just thought that I should, once more, (and in the vien of repeated news postings) bring up that fact that Microsoft is equally guilty of grafitto tagging. Observe!!!

http://ad-rag.com/6255.php

I think you need to fix up the XBox/Xbox 360 table.

I wish the ebay xbox 360 article had given average price of all consoles sold. i'd just be interested to see what people actually paid.

Monkey Ball DS? Sign me UP!!!

Now where's my Xbox Live enabled Moneky Ball?

Heh geez. It's 360 launch aftermath "trail of destruction in its wake" night tonight on LNC.