X-Box Announced

bah.

the black and tan was an abysmal failure...

they didn\'t layer, they fucking mixed....

Guinnes + Bass Ale = Black And Tan.

Mmmmm.. Black and Tan.

You can\'t rip it apart just like you can\'t rip apart a crappy motherboard that has audio and video built in. same concent heh

uhh, if this thing is a console, it\'s cheap right?

So I go out and buy a $500 console, with a 650mhz CPU and 64megs of ram and some funky-ass video card....
Whats stopping me ripping it apart and putting it in my computer?

They Probably don\'t want to use V5 cause of the Costs.

The official specs were up on xbox.com but it was taken down. You can find them on <a href=http://www.msxbox.com>msxbox.com</a>

Sol

#39 and #31:

The OS won\'t have to be a badass multithreaded-multitasking-protected-memory-supercalafragalisticexpialadociuos-30 million line behemoth. If Sega can kick out a bug-free low-level OS for the Dreamcast, I have no doubt that MS can do the same for X-Box - especially since they have experience (however bad) doing OSes.

And I think it\'s better to be able to d/l a Service Pack than to be stuck with a buggy unpatchable game (case in point: the first run of Gran Turismo 2 discs)...

I think the best thing bout the X-Box is that it\'s a semi-open standard. Right now, all videogame console development has HUGE barriers to entry - you must pony up a couple grand for a dev kit, then pay a significant license fee to the hardware manufacturer upfront. So if you want to make a profit, you must sell a significant number of units - meaning homogenized, surefire BTDT games, and little in the way of risk or innovation.

I think the X-Box may change that. Anyone can go out and make X-Box hardware - just pay nVidia, MS and Intel. And, based on the fact that the X-Box is just a stripped-down PC, I am presuming that anyone can put together a development station out of generic PC parts, and just pay MS for dev-ware, with no expensive licensing fees in sight.

Result? Lower barriers to entry, less cost to develop a game, and suddenly anyone with some free time and the necesary skills can develop games for X-Box, meaning more innovation.

And if the X-Box can be hooked up to the net (a no-brainer), then grassroots developers will have all the distribution they need to market a hit game.

Personally, I can\'t wait. There are only so many times I can stand playing the same damn games every year.

Hell this is MicroSoft, and I\'m inclined to make unfunny remarks about it (will there be a Service Pack for this?). But think about it, this thing will be using virtually the same architecture as a PC (CPU, GFX card, OS). It\'ll be interesting to see how quickly games will get ported over from PC to the X-Box.

And the first game they announce for the X-Box is... Tony Hawk\'s Pro Skater. Oooh yeah.. that puts the whole thing in perspective for me. I don\'t know about you all but I rather play F_ing mind sweeper on an Athlon 1ghz that Tony Hawk\'s Pro Skater on the X-Box.

indeego, nintendo might fail in the console market but they will never go bankrupt because of one word: Pokemon

#27... I know... Marketing sells consoles... But The Sony Marketing machine and Nintendo Marketing machine combined really overpowers the MS marketing machine for games... PSX2 will be unbelieveably popular... Dolphin will probably be Nintendo\'s last chance to make or break it.

Also what experience does MS have in making stable platforms? People that buy a console want stability, rock solid. A PC under most of MS\'s OS\'s is anything but that, but also, this would be a new OS. Even if it\'s based off of the NT 2K kernel it won\'t surprise me that there are glaring bugs in this thing.

Let\'s wait until more of the architecture specs come out. I can\'t believe it\'s coming out in Fall 2001 though... That is wack that they announce something that late...

p.s. I\'ve owned every console system there is and I can\'t believe I keep buying them. They are great eye candy but they quickly gather dust...

I am going to get me one of these things

Games are announced that far in advance too :)

I\'m sorry, a year and six months... holy shit... dumbasses...

Dolphin will blow it away. Real Smart of MS to announce specs a year and 3 months in advance so Nintendo knows what to shoot for.

This thing is better than my shitty computer already. If they make it expandable, I\'d be all over it.

did you see that nvidia\'s stock rose another 16 points? I knew I should have bought some when it was at $40...

Yes, by mid-2001 these specs will be crap. The specs of my current machine are similiar to the X-box (450mhz instead of 650, TNT1) and I\'m seriously considering an upgrade soon. The NV11/15 had better be damn good, or else there\'s no way that this thing will be able to play the latest games in two years.

well suck me sideways this system might not be half bad... it would be about equal to what i got now though... my computer is gonna be the same speed as a console... fuck.

b00la

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4 months ago I had 3000$ (Australian) and was considering nvda for 27$ US a share but thought \"nah they wont go up much more\"

100$ US a share later............

Is 64Mb really enough RAM. What kind of limitation would that be. You could not really play Q3 comfortably on it. Now maybe if the X-Box OS is not as much of a memory hog that Windows is then maybe but still it does not seem like enough. I\'ll get the PSX2 instead.

apparently it\'s not gonna ship till the 2nd half of 2001
i guess we won\'t know the real specs for a long time then

sega sucks major major major major ass.

stick to the arcades though cause sega arcades are cool.

#8, maybe if you typed with both hands (a-hole).

:)

mofo. (last post?)

If I would have said FIRST POST, i would have ended up being the
2nd POST (a-hole), and that woulda suked... so I stayed on topic and
God granted me... 1st POST BITCHES!