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360 beta kits shipping to Devs?
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jimbo said:
[Allard damage control] The increase from 30% performance to 100% perfomance melted our manufacturing plants and raped our mothers. 360 launch delayed UFN. Due to the inconvenience we will release LE Wallguy fan art to the first 100 customers who returned defective power cords [Allard damage control]
"well what type of unexpected events? i'm interested
like some chips not working or something? what type of event could botch the whole launch."
Problem with a chip. Poor yields. Problem with the disc drive. 1 out of 5 defective consoles....stuff like that.
If something like that happen, on a large scale, it wouldn't leave them with a lot of time to fix the problem and still produce enough units for a world wide launch.
like some chips not working or something? what type of event could botch the whole launch."
Problem with a chip. Poor yields. Problem with the disc drive. 1 out of 5 defective consoles....stuff like that.
If something like that happen, on a large scale, it wouldn't leave them with a lot of time to fix the problem and still produce enough units for a world wide launch.
Pseudo judo
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When ever you manufacture complex tech there could be issues. So what? Same goes for Nintendo, same goes for Sony.
Let's keep the Chicken Little posts to a minimum.
Let's keep the Chicken Little posts to a minimum.
Nothing much except it's true. AFAIK the first retail systems should start being mass produced at the end of July. Some components are already being stocked and the assembly lines are being tested with the debug kits.krypt0nian said:
Expect LOTS of 360 demo units in the september/october games show around the world. It's going to be crazy.
Pedigree Chum
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Good. Hopefully we'll get a good idea where launch titles will be graphically 1-2months from now. I sure hope to god it isn't what we're getting so far (bar a few titles like GOW).
"How is this signifigantly different from any other console time-line. Aside from the fact that affects here in the US and not those in Japan?"
I think you have a point there. I never thought about that. I guess because the Xbox launched here first it was the first system that we, or at least I, paid more attention to as far as the launching prosses goes.
"What happened to getting those beta kits in July? Did MS just decide to speed this process up? At least this gives devs an extra month to polish games and tune them for launch."
Well I think it's an ongoing process that will go through July. I doubt everyone's getting their kits this month. They'll probably start with the developers that have launch games planned, then big developers, then everyone else.
I think you have a point there. I never thought about that. I guess because the Xbox launched here first it was the first system that we, or at least I, paid more attention to as far as the launching prosses goes.
"What happened to getting those beta kits in July? Did MS just decide to speed this process up? At least this gives devs an extra month to polish games and tune them for launch."
Well I think it's an ongoing process that will go through July. I doubt everyone's getting their kits this month. They'll probably start with the developers that have launch games planned, then big developers, then everyone else.
Cold-Steel
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Pedigree Chum said:
I'm preparing to be let down. That way, I'll be surprised when the graphics are TO THE MAX.
Most people won't follow my lead.
jimbo said:
Makes sense, I'm hoping that visually certain titles will be able to at least take a step or two up graphically like DOA 4, PDZ, and NBA 2K6. Gears of War is basically the graphical bar and hopefully most XB360 games will achieve those types of visuals in 2nd gen games.
I sure hope the demo units are hooked up to HI-DEF. It would make a world of difference.
Plus I'm going to love hearing the sob stories of poor casual gamers not understanding why their 360 games don't look soo good on their analog TV then they take it home and that Microsoft is screwing them. You KNOW you're going to hear at least one statement like this in the 360's or PS3's lifetime
Plus I'm going to love hearing the sob stories of poor casual gamers not understanding why their 360 games don't look soo good on their analog TV then they take it home and that Microsoft is screwing them. You KNOW you're going to hear at least one statement like this in the 360's or PS3's lifetime
jimbo said:I sure hope the demo units are hooked up to HI-DEF. It would make a world of difference.
Plus I'm going to love hearing the sob stories of poor casual gamers not understanding why their 360 games don't look soo good on their analog TV then they take it home and that Microsoft is screwing them. You KNOW you're going to hear at least one statement like this in the 360's or PS3's lifetime
Wow Awesome!!! Can't wait to get my hands on that
I'm dissapointed that they don't mention anything about demo-ing Xbox Live. They really need to create some anonymous user accounts with time limits for demo units that would let people get online with just other kiosk demos. Like the matchmaking service in Halo.
I'm dissapointed that they don't mention anything about demo-ing Xbox Live. They really need to create some anonymous user accounts with time limits for demo units that would let people get online with just other kiosk demos. Like the matchmaking service in Halo.
Downsampling from a higher resolution plus 4X AA should make the games look quite nice on normal TVs.jimbo said:I sure hope the demo units are hooked up to HI-DEF. It would make a world of difference.
Plus I'm going to love hearing the sob stories of poor casual gamers not understanding why their 360 games don't look soo good on their analog TV then they take it home and that Microsoft is screwing them. You KNOW you're going to hear at least one statement like this in the 360's or PS3's lifetime
That's a great idea. They should also throw the camera in the live demo unit.
Pedigree Chum
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Blimblim said:
...and then subsequently ship it to Pedigree Chum's address.
"Yep. July should also be the time the press gets the first kits and previews too. That means that I'll get mine in August 2006 (if I'm lucky, if not it could be 2007 or 2008)."
So does this mean we should expect, in-depth, hands-on, sit-downs with 360 games from Gamespot and the likes next month?
Wooohoo. I'm dying for more stuff on the launch games. More media, impressions....E3 sucked sooo bad. Not even enough to be considered a tease. More like staring through a dirty window.
So does this mean we should expect, in-depth, hands-on, sit-downs with 360 games from Gamespot and the likes next month?
Wooohoo. I'm dying for more stuff on the launch games. More media, impressions....E3 sucked sooo bad. Not even enough to be considered a tease. More like staring through a dirty window.
Of course, but to hype a console and the games, you have to have the games in the first place. If there are previews on the final hardware as early as july that would have let the devs about 5-6 weeks to get their code running on the hardware and to polish it at least enough to get it to preview level. Since these are launch titles, having these guys lose time over very early preview builds for the press could be a bad idea.jimbo said:
"Of course, but to hype a console and the games, you have to have the games in the first place. If there are previews on the final hardware as early as july that would have let the devs about 5-6 weeks to get their code running on the hardware and to polish it at least enough to get it to preview level. Since these are launch titles, having these guys lose time over very early preview builds for the press could be a bad idea."
Good point. But again, it doesn't necessarily mean you'll get to preview all the launch games. Stuff like Kameo that's pretty far along shouldn't require too much work for press previewing. To those far along games, there's going to be immediate benefits to that same code running on better hardware. Like frame rate and other effects they had turned off at E3.
Good point. But again, it doesn't necessarily mean you'll get to preview all the launch games. Stuff like Kameo that's pretty far along shouldn't require too much work for press previewing. To those far along games, there's going to be immediate benefits to that same code running on better hardware. Like frame rate and other effects they had turned off at E3.
I'd estimate the press will get their kits in August, but they won't get anything substantial in terms of games until September and October when they start to get Preview and then Final builds of launch and post-launch games. It's gonna be the most hyped launch ever, quite possibly.
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