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Xbox 360 demos running on Macs?
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midnightguy
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COCKLES said:"Well that explains it then. The old Mac Kits always were a bit twitchy. With our full 360 motherboard it's impossible for PDO to skip frames or have bad wall guys. Now are you sure you don't want some more cornbread?"
LMFAO, hilarious :lol
gunstarhero
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:lol
Shogmaster
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COCKLES said:"Well that explains it then. The old Mac Kits always were a bit twitchy. With our full 360 motherboard it's impossible for PDO to skip frames or have bad wall guys. Now are you sure you don't want some more cornbread?"
:lol :lol :lol :lol
midnightguy
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1up.com had a little blurb about this, that was very informative. trying to find it.
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midnightguy said:
Of course, this flies over everyone's head
Gahiggidy
My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
More condeming than the shoddy grafx of these games is that it shows just how unprepared Microsoft is for their luanch. Most of these games look as if they are ports form projects that started on Xbox or are multi-console stuff that is only going to give the 36o version marginal attention to upgrading the visuals (never mind the actual gameplay). When did everyone start working on Xbox 360?! Last summer? That is way too short a time to create games for this generation.
I sure hope Nintendo has had plenty of projects green-lighted for Revolution alot earlier than 2004. Otherwise, they are going to have the same problem gathering up a quality lineup of luanch software. Its doubly important for Nintendo if they are going to sell people on this new way of playing games.
I sure hope Nintendo has had plenty of projects green-lighted for Revolution alot earlier than 2004. Otherwise, they are going to have the same problem gathering up a quality lineup of luanch software. Its doubly important for Nintendo if they are going to sell people on this new way of playing games.
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Gahiggidy said:
Rogue Leader on Gamecube was made in 9 months, and the Halo team was crunched for time as well
Gahiggidy said:
with nintendo i bet their first party stuff has been underway for a long time.... the GC release schedule has been slowing down for a while now. i would say that after MP2 released, everybody that wasn't working on a DS game or the new zelda has been focused on the revolution. nintendo's third party stuff will probably be mixed though just like the xbox, maybe worse because nintendo is so damn secretive.
Cold-Steel
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Gahiggidy said:
Many games nowadays are actually put together in less than a year.
The games that take 2 years to make are usually the ones to look out for.
UltraMagnanimous
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Cold-Steel said:
Then, by that logic, Duke Nukem Forever is going to be GOTCentury?
Shogmaster
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UltraMagnanimous said:
No, game of the millenium! :lol
midnightguy
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Agent Icebeezy said:
true.
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=518598&highlight=1up#518598
finally found the direct quote and link
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=1&cId=3140401
midnightguy
Member
Ryudo said:
I wholeheartedly agree :lol
the oldest graphics card used for Xenon dev-kits
midnightguy
Member
Ryudo said:
I don't think it's the r420 / X800's fault, it's supposedly the Mac OS that is holding the hardware back.
COCKLES said:"Well that explains it then. The old Mac Kits always were a bit twitchy. With our full 360 motherboard it's impossible for PDO to skip frames or have bad wall guys. Now are you sure you don't want some more cornbread?"
Fuggin Awsome. Bishop rules and so do Macs!
This news is only surprising to complete idiots, of which there are many on this board. Hell, I recall reading somewhere that final dev kits aren't due to be shipped until June or July. We're barely scratching the surface with this thing.
We've seen this song and dance before with previous console launches...underwhelming initial screens and demos, mere months before it's release. It's to be expected when the hardware is using the most bleeding edge technology available. Unless people would prefer to have the guts of the console and the dev kit finished for the better part of a year, as the Saturn was alleged to have been before it went through a last second redesign.
As I've said in previous weeks, XBox's E3 debut was incredibly underwhelming, and Halo was damn near laughed off the trade show floor. And does anyone remember the first leaked pics for Sonic Adventure? They were incredibly underwhelming as well. Nothing really changes, including the mass immature reaction to it all.
Of course, that doesn't excuse PDO's disgraceful looking visuals. :lol But would we look any better on Rare if they'd just used some phoney CG demo that they claimed was real and later exposed? I doubt it.
Moreover, using early, alpha dev kit stuff as a guide for what the next generation of games will look like is completely foolhardy. It's like saying Sega Rally 2 or VF3 was the benchmark for Dreamcast, or SF EX3 was the benchmark for PS2, or hell VF1 was the benchmark for the Saturn...history shows it just doesn't make sense.
Bottom line is, I don't see much to be worried about with 360...not yet anyway. If PDO's sporting the same visual look in September, I'd say that would be pretty damning, but only for Rare. But there's no way it'll stay at that sorry level.
We've seen this song and dance before with previous console launches...underwhelming initial screens and demos, mere months before it's release. It's to be expected when the hardware is using the most bleeding edge technology available. Unless people would prefer to have the guts of the console and the dev kit finished for the better part of a year, as the Saturn was alleged to have been before it went through a last second redesign.
As I've said in previous weeks, XBox's E3 debut was incredibly underwhelming, and Halo was damn near laughed off the trade show floor. And does anyone remember the first leaked pics for Sonic Adventure? They were incredibly underwhelming as well. Nothing really changes, including the mass immature reaction to it all.
Of course, that doesn't excuse PDO's disgraceful looking visuals. :lol But would we look any better on Rare if they'd just used some phoney CG demo that they claimed was real and later exposed? I doubt it.
Moreover, using early, alpha dev kit stuff as a guide for what the next generation of games will look like is completely foolhardy. It's like saying Sega Rally 2 or VF3 was the benchmark for Dreamcast, or SF EX3 was the benchmark for PS2, or hell VF1 was the benchmark for the Saturn...history shows it just doesn't make sense.
Bottom line is, I don't see much to be worried about with 360...not yet anyway. If PDO's sporting the same visual look in September, I'd say that would be pretty damning, but only for Rare. But there's no way it'll stay at that sorry level.
Jared Goodwin
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Ryudo said:
Mostly because of the shitty drivers for the Mac.
Panajev2001a
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Ryudo said:
True, true... the Mac's they were using were running at sub-GHz speed and probably we won't see the final chip running at even 3 GHz till December...
Something is frothing to blame PD0's showing on something
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