Xbox 360/Playstation 3/Revolution Thread (Part 2)

[Nostromo]

Most important part is confirmation that the base console will come with the console

[Verto]

Xbox 360 Gaming System: Welcome to the Next Generation of Gaming.
Console sold separately.

[Verto]

Screenshots from Alan Wake:

[Nostromo]

You haven't being paying attention, have you? Shame on you!

[Verto]

Originally posted by nostromo
I thought the issue was PC versus console, not high-end PC versus console. Consoles are not good at strategy games. Anyway, Age of Empires 3 will probably require a pretty decent machine.

THe issue is PC vs. Console; usually in this argument the PC fans will assert that PCs have better graphics than consoles, better online multiplay, better game manuals, better looking CDs, etc.

[Nostromo]

I was just pointing out that somebody already posted those screenshots.

PC games do have better graphics. Consoles are stuck with lousy low-def TV's. I played Halo 2 recently on my Xbox. Compare Halo 2 @ 640x 480 interlaced with Half-Life 2 @ 1280x1024 progressive... Halo 2, even though it has great graphics, looks crude compared to Half-Life 2. There's no way I'll buy a next-gen console and plug it in my current TV.

[Odin]

@ the graphics!

My God. I remenber when people were gloating over how great the graphics were in LOZ: Ocarana of Time.

[Asher]

Wow, PGR3 comes with a track-maker/editor. You have the "fully-realized" cities at your disposal (like the previous images have shown), of which you can create your own tracks:

[Verto]

Originally posted by nostromo
I was just pointing out that somebody already posted those screenshots.

In this thread?

[Asher]

Even the interiors of the cars in PGR3 are very detailed...

[Tassadar500]

Wow, PGR3 is looking to be a great game.

[Nostromo]

In this thread?

I don't remember.

edit: it was in another thread. Nevermind.

[flash9286]

Man i was going to buy a PS3, but it looks like Sony is pricing themselves out of the market, and no harddrive shipping with it thats just stupid.

Asher- what kind of screenshots are those, ingame or like cutscences.

[Asher]

All of the screenshots are in-game.

[Asher]

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/xbox360_inside.asp

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/xbox360_inside_02.asp

Great interviews, lots of good information.

This part was especially cool:

Jeff: Sharing music and sharing photos is cool ... if you have access to music and photos. And if you've got them all on your PC and you've got a home network, that's great. Many people have their photos and music these days. But not everyone has the home network. And that's still a barrier for a lot of people.

[Jeff picks up a Rio Carbon, which is a small portable MP3 player.]

Xbox 360 has fixed that by adding really simple, fast, fun device connectivity to the console platform. It's never existed before on any console. You'll be able to take your digital audio players--like the Rio Carbon I have here or an iRiver, or an iPod, or even a Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP)--put music and photos on it, bring it over to your Xbox 360, navigate over to the Media Blade, connect that device via USB 2.0 to the 360, and stream it all over in real time to the 360. In the Media Blade, we scroll down to portable devices, and it will give me a list of all the music that's on this device.

[Jeff scrolls through the list of artists on the Carbon.]

Do you have a favorite artist that's on this list?

Paul: Do I? Um. Coldplay is fine.

Jeff: OK, pick a song and ... [music begins playing] Yes. This music is actually being streamed from the device in real time, through the Xbox 360, and into my home theater with its HDTV and surround-sound system. And I can do anything with this music that I can do with music I've ripped directly to the Xbox. If I want to share that music with friends, I can do it. If I want to use that music as a custom game soundtrack, like we did earlier, I can do that.

Paul: Now you can play that music and then go back and do other stuff, right?

Jeff: You can start a game while the music is playing, you can start an audio chat while the music is playing...

Paul: It's not happening in isolation.

Jeff: No, it's not.

The other trick I'd like to perform, if you don't mind me snapping a picture of you, and I promise I won't publish this, I can take this picture ... [he snaps a picture of me with a digital camera] and plug the camera directly into the Xbox 360, navigate to the Media Blade, same way, via USB...

[I notice some icons at the top of the Media Blade screen.]

Paul: What do you have there? You have media sources...

Jeff: Media Center PC, a mass storage USB device, a Memory Unit, an iPod or other portable audio player, a digital camera source.

So I go into Pictures, and this will show me my pictures library, locally or on networked PCs. I might have a USB drive with a photo library. In this case, I just click the camera icon. [The pictures on the camera come up onscreen]. I can go through these one by one, or I can view them as a screensaver, or I can share this photo album with friends online. In this case, I'll just view a slideshow. And this actually gives me a high definition view of the photos directly off the camera.

[The photos stream off the camera using Media Center-style transitions between each photo, which is a wonderful effect. I ask about this.]

Yeah, we've got lots of transitions and they're customizable. You can select fades or wipes or whatever. You can also do some effects like black and white or sepia. It's all pretty simple, playback-oriented kind of stuff, but it looks really cool in high-def. [The picture he took of me comes up.] That's a keeper right there. That I will publish.

[Laughter]

That's how easy it's become to get digital photos directly from your camera to your high-def television set. For people that don't have a home network, or just want the pure convenience of being able to just walk up and plug something in, and get it on the TV with surround sound, Xbox 360 is going to make that easier than it's ever been before.

That's the stuff I'm really excited about.

[Jeff suddenly and accidentally drops the Xbox 360 controller onto the concrete floor.]

That's only a $60,000 prototype. I'm sure they'll appreciate me breaking this. [The controller is OK.]