Topic: Microsoft to unveil next X-Box on May12, 2005...

[hudsonhawk]

To be fair, the demo units that people are using only have 2 of the cpu cores and lack the custom GPU.  So all of these demos are unoptimized; trying to judge anything from early footage would be sort of akin to judging a movie's special effects by its story boards.  I have little doubt that PD0 will be running at 60 fps and will absolutely rock... but I didn't shed my Rare fandom as quickly as others.

[Ian Sane]

"they showed Atari and the Genesis, yet no NES, SNES, PSX, PS2?"

Gee, I wonder why they wouldn't show THOSE consoles.

[BlackNMild2k1]

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Originally posted by: BigJim
There is another replay on the 15th at 9 AM. Warning: Record it so you can keep your finger on the fast forward button.

Why?  I have a link to all the videos that were shown on the special HERE. Nothing else on there was worth watching.  If you want to see a much better hypemercial look for the 'TheColony' link on Page 6.    

[vudu]

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Originally posted by: BigJim
What's the biggest difference between Silver and Gold Live (other than the price)? I'm not really clear on that.

From what I understand Silver lets you do everything on Live other than play actual games.  Meaning you get to do just about nothing worthwhile.  If you want to play games, you gotta pay for a Gold account.

[hudsonhawk]

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[From what I understand Silver lets you do everything on Live other than play actual games.  Meaning you get to do just about nothing worthwhile.  If you want to play games, you gotta pay for a Gold account.

Silver does let you play games - but only on weekends.  Gold gives you anytime access.  Source.

[Grant10k]

I saw a clip, the one with the CG ant with the green eyes. They were talking about how gamers are like ants or something like that. It was really dumb, nearest I could tell the only think the new xbox has going for it is:
Changeable Faceplates  They are turning Console games into Nokia cellphones.
Chat online with your actual picture  Hearing voices are bad enough, I don't want to see pictures of people's genitals as well (you know it's going to happen)
Better Graphics I'm just assuming here, I never really saw any footage
Every game must be in high def As if that wasn't going to happen anyway, all this will do is piss of devs

New xbox live community

Watch video trailers for upcoming games  They are turning it into cellphones WITH V-CAST (the most ironic part about this is I was watching this clip on a modded xbox
Every game must be live aware now that's just stupid, injecting a a virus like LIVE into a normally healthy single player game (I KNOW PaLaDiN is against this idea)

Nearest I can tell, every marginally good idea they had, modded xboxes can already do. They even talk about customization in the clip "make your xbox 360, YOURS"  

[Artimus]

Grant, Live aware means it keeps your stats and stiff amd adds to your profile, not that it has to have multiplayer.

[PaLaDiN]

Yeah, Live Aware isn't so bad because it's negligible to add as far as I can see.

I'm more concerned about online play in general.

[nemo_83]

Live Aware sounds cool, but generally I think most people are disappointed with what has been shown so far.  It doesn't scream next generation.  Even the fan tools on the Xbox boards I go to read are having a freak out.

It is kind of funny to see them scatter like ants.

[Grant10k]

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Originally posted by: Artimus
Grant, Live aware means it keeps your stats and stiff amd adds to your profile, not that it has to have multiplayer.

WHO TOLD YOU MY REAL NAME!!!!!
but seriously, I figured that a single player game woulnt' have multiplayer, but I just don't think there is a point to being 'aware' within the game itself. For example, if you are playing a PC game you can still get instant messages. They could have a small program always running in the background (they could even make it built into hardware) that tells you that a friend wants you to stop playing your game because he's bored and wants a partner. I just don't want to recreate the playing-a-game-on-the-PC-and-hit-the-windows-button-and-die-just-before-a-save-point effect on a console. But I guess it's not a horrible idea, I just hate playing a game and AIM decides that it's more important then interrupts me (that's the reason I use MSN messenger, it dosn't pop up infront of what i'm doing). I realize that they won't let that happen, but it's still nagging at me.

[PaLaDiN]

MSN used to do that as well, but they changed it.

So I'm confident MS isn't stupid enough to make the same mistake twice.

[Deguello]

I need you PGC Forumers to confirm something for me.

This MTV special actually happened, right?  I mean.  I didn't just hallucinate that whole 30 minutes, right?

[KnowsNothing]

Come on, Deg, give yourself some credit.  Not even YOUR brain can hallucinate something THAT pathetic.