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Xbox 1.5 was real after all!

Xbox 1.5 was real after all!

Well, I don't believe conceptual and real are the same thing. I imagine manufacturers are juggling literally hundreds of concepts at any given time.
 
What MS needed was an XboxOne. A more efficient unit with a more reliable DVD drive and a more attractive case.

However I guess them not owning the silicon was the reason the XBox was never redisigned.
 
VPhys said:
However I guess them not owning the silicon was the reason the XBox was never redisigned.
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This is most likely true. I doubt Nvidia even wanted to refine the hardware for the xbox. I'd say the 360 will get a redesign eventually tho. And even before that, I'm sure MS will refine the chips so they give off less heat (so less excessive cooling is needed) and use less power (bye bye huge ass PSU).
 
Well geez, I guess everyone should suck it up, lay off a bit, and stick with calling it Xbox 1.7 or 1.8 when they bash rushed 360 games.
 
This reminds me of the RUMOURS of a psx 1.5 . . . . . . . . .

Anyone remember that one?

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HAIL to the greatest advance in mass miscommunication that is The Internet!
 
S-Wind said:
This reminds me of the RUMOURS of a psx 1.5 . . . . . . . . .

Anyone remember that one?

~S-Wind

HAIL to the greatest advance in mass miscommunication that is The Internet!
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Don't do that.
 
TheDuce22 said:
I think last time Klee posted something like this it turned out to be false.
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I don't think klee cares about how valid any rumor is before he posts away. He's more of a rumor carpet bomber. :lol
 
Yes. The EXTERNAL power supply is so big because it's not an internal power supply.


What's the rolleyes shortcut?

This is going to turn out to be false I reckon.
 
S-Wind said:
This reminds me of the RUMOURS of a psx 1.5 . . . . . . . . .

Anyone remember that one?
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Yeah, the supposed Type C that would have extra RAM and run existing PlayStation games in higher resolution.
 
How about a smaller 360 down the line??? I think the Playstation revison's have been their secret sauce, giving great legs to Sonys consoles.
 
JoshuaJSlone said:
Yeah, the supposed Type C that would have extra RAM and run existing PlayStation games in higher resolution.
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So it'd be similar to a System 12 board?
 
"Microsoft had actually planned to release an updated version of Xbox, called Xbox 1.5, shortly after the original Xbox 1, and before the real next-generation Xbox. This Xbox 1.5 has the full hardware backward compatibility with Xbox 1, and has a better CPU/GPU. It can run both Xbox 1 softwares and better looking Xbox 1.5 softwares. Basically it breaks the 5-year cycle of game console and runs away from the competition by the absolute power."
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I don't buy it. Microsoft already had technical superiority, and would have diluted Xbox developer/publisher support for the Xbox family rather than built it. Why develop for Xbox 1.5 when the PS2/Xbox markets are bigger, and it will be superseded in a few years by the true "next gen"?

They may have indeed kicked the idea around briefly, but I don't imagine anything like this would ever have built any momentum internally and I doubt there were anything resembling actual plans.
 
JoshuaJSlone said:
Yeah, the supposed Type C that would have extra RAM and run existing PlayStation games in higher resolution.
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With 4 controller ports as well. I think I still have the old Next Generation issue with most of the info lying around.
 
JoshuaJSlone said:
Yeah, the supposed Type C that would have extra RAM and run existing PlayStation games in higher resolution.
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:lol Gamefan's rumors section went crazy over that shit back in the day. I always loved how anytime any new system or addon was rumored, they already had a launch lineup ready.
 
There really was a Type C PlayStation, it just wasn't what the rumor pages of the magazines suggested. If you have a PlayStation 1, you probably even have a Type C or newer machine.

The GPU was reworked and was made (for the most part) slightly (but not significantly) faster, but most importantly, a GPU bug that caused some nasty color banding in certain situations was fixed. Take a look at some games on a 1000-series PS1 vs. anything after the 5000-series machines, and you might be able to notice the difference, depending on the game...
 
Wasn't Sega significantly tinkering with the idea of a more powerful Saturn at some point? Not the DC, not the Hi-Saturn or anything like that, but something capable of running existing Saturn soft (like NiGHTS) at higher speeds?

I remember there was some eBay auction relating to that concept years ago, which I'm 98% sure was fake, but there's always that sliver of a question.
 
Goto thinks while it seems the PS3 case was designed after Cell was completed, the design of the Xbox 360 case had to be done before silicon validation. At E3, he heard from a Microsoft insider that they hesitated to make the PSU external, as seen in the back panel of the mockup unit at E3. The ugly PSU will stay for a while as the symbol of the rushed design until the chip set is shrinked and the PSU becomes internal.
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Heh
 
dorio said:
I'm sure there are alot of stupid ideas by game companies that never see the light of day.
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Just think about the ones that do see the light of day.
 
Microsoft had actually planned to release an updated version of Xbox, called Xbox 1.5, shortly after the original Xbox 1, and before the real next-generation Xbox. This Xbox 1.5 has the full hardware backward compatibility with Xbox 1, and has a better CPU/GPU. It can run both Xbox 1 softwares and better looking Xbox 1.5 softwares.
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Thankfully Nintendo did not let the wonderful idea go to waste!
 
well, considering about a year after xbox 1 launched they were talking about the next xbox releasing around the same time as the next world cup, i don't believe this news. Maybe they very briefly looked into this, but I don't think they spent any significant amount of time or energy in it.
 
Kulock said:
Wasn't Sega significantly tinkering with the idea of a more powerful Saturn at some point? Not the DC, not the Hi-Saturn or anything like that, but something capable of running existing Saturn soft (like NiGHTS) at higher speeds?
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Not a more powerful Saturn, but rather an upgrade cart (codenamed "Eclipse"). It was very real, suppossedly incorperating a Lockheed Martin designed Real3D chipset and extra RAM for Model 3 level performance. Virtua Fighter 3, SEGA Super GT, Sonic Adventure and Tomb Raider 2 were planned to take advantage of it and the planned release was mid 1998.... but Saturn totally fumbling in western markets made SEGA push their nextgen projects forward instead.
 
If it's true, it's seriously cool it didn't happen!
I fear the day Microsoft may succeed a little too much in the console world and drown us stupid consumers into a sea of microtransactions, add-ons and .5 consoles rendering console gaming as expensive (or more) than the PC game (therefore obliterating the console world).
The console Jedi in me can feel the dark side of the force from here already...
 
Wyzdom said:
If it's true, it's seriously cool it didn't happen!
I fear the day Microsoft may succeed a little too much in the console world and drown us stupid consumers into a sea of microtransactions, add-ons and .5 consoles rendering console gaming as expensive (or more) than the PC game (therefore obliterating the console world).
The console Jedi in me can feel the dark side of the force from here already...
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The Dark side rocks.
Join us, we have the power.

Yes, I'm serious about this!
 
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