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nostromo
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Montréal, Québec
Mar 2002
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It seems these photos were taken with a cellphone... It looks more and more legit. It looks better than the prototype imo. It still won't win a design contest, mind you. Notice the USB camera on the right.
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Last edited by nostromo on 08-05-2005 at 09:29
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nostromo
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Montréal, Québec
Mar 2002
time: 00:17
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A close-up of the gamepad. I actually prefer the new logo. Notice the connectors for the headphones on the bottom. Edit: it seems the logo is actually a button.
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The wireless controller is white to compliment the new system and includes an X button in the place of the old Xbox logo. The button is said to let users access Xbox Live functions, like buddy lists and chat sessions. |
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Last edited by nostromo on 08-05-2005 at 09:39
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MS has made all of the concessions before to make inroads into the marketplace. It's looking to make money this time. |
If an XBOX2 costs too much people will not buy it.
I guarantee you this. No matter how awesome it is--if MS makes too much money off each sale, it will not be sold.
Besides, even after the loss on the consoles, didn't MS make money overall off the original XBOX plus controllers, cards, games, etc.?
At least it isn't as big as the old XBOX. Flippin huge.
What are we looking at for the next Nintendo and Sony consoles? What is this ugly boy's competition going to be?
P. S. I bet you the real XBOX2 is totally different from all this that's leaked. Microsoft is too evil to have a genuine lossage of information.
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nostromo
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Montréal, Québec
Mar 2002
time: 00:17
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What are we looking at for the next Nintendo and Sony consoles? What is this ugly boy's competition going to be? |
We know next to nothing about the Nintendo. We know a bit more about the PS3. Nvidia will design the GPU and it will have about the same horsepower as the one found in the Xbox 360, which is designed by ATI. However, the Cell, the PS3's CPU, is reportedly 3x faster than the one found in the Xbox 360. So, this time around, the PS3 will actually be more powerful than the Xbox 360.
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P. S. I bet you the real XBOX2 is totally different from all this that's leaked. Microsoft is too evil to have a genuine lossage of information. |
I doubt it. These photos were taken at the MTV party where they unvealed the Xbox 360. Yes, they already taped it.
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Asher
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Calgary, Alberta
Nov 1999
time: 22:17
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Originally posted by nostromo
We know next to nothing about the Nintendo. We know a bit more about the PS3. Nvidia will design the GPU and it will have about the same horsepower as the one found in the Xbox 360, which is designed by ATI. However, the Cell, the PS3's CPU, is reportedly 3x faster than the one found in the Xbox 360. So, this time around, the PS3 will actually be more powerful than the Xbox 360. |
It's much more complicated than that.
The Nvidia GPU will likely not be the same kind of GPU as the ATI one in the Xbox. In fact, it may be mostly a raster chip with anti-aliasing abiliites...the whole point of the Cell chip in the PS3 was insane parallel vectoring performance...exactly the same kind of performance needed for graphics.
The Cell itself is overrated. It's very useful for things like graphics processing and some types of physics processing, but not very useful for general game code. Game code is very logic-oriented...and the Cell can't do much of anything in "branching" code...it works by divying up the work into very small, independent packets and sending them out to the cells. If you're doing something where one packet immediately depends on the next (very common in game programming), you can't do this in parallel.
The MS (and presumably Nintendo) CPUs are much more balanced.
The "3x powerful" thing comes from theoretical numbers that will never be achieved. Look at it this way: the PS2 is ~4x powerful than the Xbox using the same method of measurement. 
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