New Xbox: Microsoft Speaks Out

[DrSpike]

Somehow I'd got the impression you were an X-Box fan.

[Verto]

I am. I think Sony and Nintendo are both going to lose ground to Microsoft. That doesn't mean those two companies won't do something right every once in a while.

[Grumbold]

Originally posted by nostromo
I don't think it will give the PS3 an advantage for games. Like I said, 7 GB is more than enough room for games. It will give the PS3 an advantage for HD movies. But it's not a big advantage, since most people don't own HD TVs anyway. Btw, Apple is on the Blu-Ray team now.

Games are already coming out that use 4GB. unless developers get their bloatware tendencies under control, 7GB games aren't far away.

[Nostromo]

Games are already coming out that use 4GB. unless developers get their bloatware tendencies under control, 7GB games aren't far away.

4GB? Surely that's not common? It seems that the price of developing a game for the next-generation of systems is going to skyrocket, because of all the extra content they'll have to create. And that makes everyone very nervous. They could always go procedural like Will Wright. Check the thread on Spore, his new game.

[DrSpike]

Many games are around the 4GB mark or just below. Thing is the pace of affordable hard drive capacity has risen along with the capacity required.

My first drive was 800MB, and it was MASSIVE. Now I have that 275 times over. It was only 9 years ago as well.

[Asmodean]

The beta alone for WoW was 2.5 GB (that you had to download )

I'm sure that actual game is 4 GB or more.

Asmodean

[Nostromo]

Yeah, WoW is a huge game. Btw, it seems that you won't have to install games in Longhorn. Microsoft want to make PC gaming as painless and effortless as console gaming. So pop the disk in your PC and it should work. Dream on, Microsoft!

[Kuciwalker]

KOTOR and KOTOR 2 are also very large.

[Asher]

Originally posted by nostromo
Yeah, WoW is a huge game. Btw, it seems that you won't have to install games in Longhorn. Microsoft want to make PC gaming as painless and effortless as console gaming. So pop the disk in your PC and it should work. Dream on, Microsoft!

That's what XNA is about.

It's a custom version of an upcoming Visual Studio that makes game development faster, easier, cheaper...and as a curious sideeffect only works on Xbox and Windows Longhorn.

[Nostromo]

They're also claiming that, for the users, PC gaming will become as painless and effortless as console gaming. The so-called "tray and play". I'm sceptical about that.

[Grumbold]

Once they've elbowed every other player out of the market so that all the hardware applies the standards in the same way, they may be right

I saw the spore thread. It looks great as a concept, but I'm not really a fan of directionless gaming, which his implementation appeared to be. That is the main reason I still love Sim City 2 more than 3 or 4. The scenarios gave you more of a purpose to building the city than pure godlike whim.

[Dis]

can it play SMAC?

didn't think so. Inferior product.

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by Dissident
can it play SMAC?

didn't think so. Inferior product.

Move to the modern age, Diss.

[MORON]

SMAC is better then......those bull****tt games you people play

*still plays moo2/civ2 sometimes......*

[lord of the mark]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by nostromo
They're also claiming that, for the users, PC gaming will become as painless and effortless as console gaming. The so-called "tray and play". I'm sceptical about that. [/QUOTE


that would seem to be the logical direction for PC gaming to go and one tht all parties with a stake in PC gaming would have an incentive to follow.