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Posted by Space Marine on Jan-08-2007 20:32:

Offical Xbox 360 Thread




Key highlights thus far...


- 10.4 million Xbox 360 units sold through December 31, 2006
- Majority of Xbox 360 gamers are new to the Xbox platform
- Gears of War sold 2.7 million units in first 8 weeks
- 160 Xbox 360 game titles to date, will double in 2007
- 5 million members on Xbox Live
- Live experience demonstrated on Windows Vista, Vista cross-platform with Xbox 360 coming in Summer 2007 to Live
- HD-DVD is the top selling format to date
- High-Definition viewing on Xbox 360 with HD-DVD Drive, Media Center (via PC), Video Marketplace
- New High-Definition Experience coming with IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) on Xbox 360, IPTV will be available by Holiday 2007




Now letz talk everything 360 related, PS3 and Wii fanboys are welcome here. Bring it!


Posted by TweeK on Jan-08-2007 20:38:

Inb4tehmuthafuckingfanboys








I played the Final Fantasy 11 Xbox 360 beta, awhile back. I enjoyed it for awhile but it sucked cause i was running around with a bunch of n00bs trying to find the same items all at one time. I got frustrated with some of the quests and quit. =\

Now im ready for something new, i know marvel is working on a new MMoRPG but the whole marvel universe doesnt really interest me.


I looked into some up and coming Xbox 360 MMORPGS and came across, Huxley. FPSMMORPG seems pretty good. Its going to run on a UNREAL 3 Enigine.



Source


Check out there Live Demo Video of that link. I will be keeping an eye of this game.


Posted by fmodena369 on Jan-08-2007 20:49:

The new GTA will be available on 360 right!?!?!!?


Posted by TweeK on Jan-08-2007 21:00:

quote:
Originally posted by fmodena369
The new GTA will be available on 360 right!?!?!!?



You can count on that.

Grand Theft Auto IV is coming to Xbox 360 in October 2007. GTA IV is coming to Xbox 360 -- and it will be available on the first day the game ships -- unlike previous GTA games that were delayed on Xbox six months or even years after the first PS2 versions. Apparently, Microsoft has now gained first-class status with Rockstar Games.

And from what i heard, Rockstar plans to use Xbox Live Marketplace to enable gamers to download episodic exclusive content in the future, though no further specifics were given.


Posted by CONNERMAN2000 on Jan-08-2007 21:51:

That Huxley game looks fucking solid.

Despite my recent PS3 purchase, I still save time for some occassional 360 sessions. I actually play the HELL outta Geometry Wars. If not that, I'm still glued to Halo 2. I havent picked up Gears of War or Call of Duty 3 yet, but Ill get on that eventually.


Posted by TweeK on Jan-10-2007 14:07:

Big update for us gear heads.


Big update and two new maps out today. Get them of Xbox Live Market Place. There FREE!!

Get them early. Xbox live servers, are going to get hammered later on today.


/downloading now.


Posted by fmodena369 on Jan-11-2007 02:23:

Heads up for 360 players
-Supposedly playing games on the 360 while it's standing verical increases the chance of the system scratching the game. I was playing Madden 07 then it was messin up, it was fourth time playing it. Gamestop told me to look for a perfect circle near the hole of the cd, and sure enough it was there. Luckily they replaced it for free!
Set your 360's on the ground if you wanna avoid this problem.


Posted by Pjotr G on Jan-11-2007 06:53:

yeah, it falling from vertical to horizontal destroyed my (first) copy of gears of war

lessons learned: put it horizontal


Posted by TheDemon on Jan-11-2007 08:08:

quote:
Originally posted by fmodena369
The new GTA will be available on 360 right!?!?!!?


yep. its coming to the 360 first.


Posted by TweeK on Jan-11-2007 08:25:

quote:
Originally posted by TheDemon
yep. its coming to the 360 first.



Oh yeah. Link?


Posted by TheDemon on Jan-11-2007 09:55:

quote:
Originally posted by TweeK
Oh yeah. Link?


no link, but peter moore has stated it. I hope its true.


Posted by TheDemon on Jan-11-2007 09:55:

you guys gotta read this. this guy can't keep his story straight.

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/St...5034.htm?Page=1


Posted by TheDemon on Jan-11-2007 10:01:

quote:
Originally stated by Sony Dimwit
GI: Are you surprised that Microsoft has met their sales numbers of 10 million? What do you think of the early acceptance of Wii and their sales?

Dille: I’m not sure if they had gone to 10 million or if they had announced that they had. I know a lot of people were wondering if they would ever get there. I think initially, they're bravado speech was: “We’re going to get to 10 million before they ship.” And then it was: “We’re going to get to 10 million by the time the year is over.” I haven’t seen a new announcement from them, but what we do pay attention to is that month in, month out, the PlayStation 2 continues to outsell Xbox 360. I think you see the consumers voting with their wallets on the PlayStation brand. But also, if people want to go out and buy a 360, their stacked pretty high at retail and yet, six-year-old technology is outselling it. I also think there’s another trend going on. Every Sunday in the paper, there’s a new deal with a free controller or a free game or $100 off all discounting the 360. I don’t think you take those measures if you’re selling as expected.


Ok, lets have a look at this. This yahoo is comparing the ps2 to the 360. well, of course the ps2 will have a larger fan base, but thats because its had a 5 yr running span. What a douche. then he's claiming that 360 has to sell by always selling its self on some sort of a deal? Hello Sony! why don't you give us hard working people a break and reduce the cost on your overpriced dvd player and give us some sort of a deal? Maybe that way people will buy it. I have one game for my ps3, Resistance, thats it. I paid $800 for it and I am not really taking much advantage of it. Oh, and when a system hits 10 million units, i don't know about you but that's quite a feat. even for Microsoft.


Posted by TheDemon on Jan-11-2007 10:04:

Re: Offical Xbox 360 Thread

quote:
Originally posted by Space_Marine



Key highlights thus far...


- 10.4 million Xbox 360 units sold through December 31, 2006
- Majority of Xbox 360 gamers are new to the Xbox platform
- Gears of War sold 2.7 million units in first 8 weeks
- 160 Xbox 360 game titles to date, will double in 2007
- 5 million members on Xbox Live
- Live experience demonstrated on Windows Vista, Vista cross-platform with Xbox 360 coming in Summer 2007 to Live
- HD-DVD is the top selling format to date
- High-Definition viewing on Xbox 360 with HD-DVD Drive, Media Center (via PC), Video Marketplace
- New High-Definition Experience coming with IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) on Xbox 360, IPTV will be available by Holiday 2007




Now letz talk everything 360 related, PS3 and Wii fanboys are welcome here. Bring it!


You can add Dead rising, its now sold officially over 1 million units.


http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/0...1-million-sold/


Posted by TheDemon on Jan-11-2007 20:31:

Iam just wondering, is 360 better to play in 720p or 1080i? I've always had it at 1080i. anyone can elaborate pls let me know. thnanks.


Posted by malek on Jan-12-2007 00:19:

always been at 1080i too... and it looks better too imo.

less edges.


Posted by fmodena369 on Jan-12-2007 02:45:

I keep hearing great things about Gears of War..but I keep buying sports games when I go to the store..Should I finally cough up the 60 bucks for the game?


Posted by InterMilan31 on Jan-12-2007 03:51:

did anyone get the Lost Planet game made by the guys of Gears of War?


Posted by TheDemon on Jan-12-2007 03:54:

quote:
Originally posted by InterMilan31
did anyone get the Lost Planet game made by the guys of Gears of War?


gears of war is by epic games. lost planet is by capcom.


Posted by TheDemon on Jan-12-2007 03:55:

quote:
Originally spoken by Bill Gates
Bill Gates spoke with a small group of reporters after his speech at the Consumer Electronics Show. I got to stand next to him at a cocktail table at Delmonico's restaurant in the Venetian Hotel. He didn't have his boyish face anymore, but he was in a good mood and talked for a surprisingly long time. We'll post some audio of that conversation a little later on the CES blog (www.mercextra.com/blogs/ces). The interview covered a lot of territory but I'll mention some highlights here on the Xbox 360.

It has always struck me how much Gates knows about the details of the Xbox 360 business. A year ago, I quizzed him about it in a small group and he offered an update on the strategy last night. He said that the strategy is working "amazingly well" in terms of the Xbox 360's sales, which have now topped 10.4 million units.

He said that this time Microsoft and Sony have switched positions. Microsoft has the high ground, he said, repeating an answer from last year. He said it has a small box, costs less, is visually compelling, has great games, does online superbly and offers all of the tools for game developers to make games easily. He said the Xbox 360 is out earlier and can ride a silicon cost-reduction curve faster than Sony can, which saddled every unit with Blu-ray and hard drive costs. At any given point, the Xbox 360's costs will be lower and more easily reduced.

I asked him about Nintendo. What if their graphics were good enough, their controller innovative enough, and the system cheap enough for a lot of gamers? He said that Sony was always the more direct competitor and that the novelty of the controller without good game graphics could wear off.

"Look at their experience with online," he said, noting Microsoft has the ability to create games where Xbox 360 gamers play with PC gamers.

He said that Sony had no advantage in graphics at all. He said Sony started earlier but "burned a year" trying to make the Cell processor do graphics functions. When it didn't work, Sony went to a fallback plan by tapping Nvidia for the graphics chip at the last minute. It also didn't have embedded DRAM or unified memory. The Xbox 360 game developers would always be a year ahead of Sony on the learning curve in taking advantage of the system. As a result, Gates said that Sony would never have games that look beter than Microsoft. He said that either system, limited to 512 megabytes of memory, would not likely exploit HD resolutions beyond 720p. If you go to 1080p, he said, you will have to give up something.

In his speech, Robbie Bach came on stage and talked about how the Xbox 360 was ready to go as a set-top box for IPTV, which phone companies are using to compete with cable by providing high-speed Internet, movies and TV, video on demand and digital video recording for subscribers. The service is expected to debut with the Xbox 360 sometime before the holidays this year. I asked Gates right off the bat if AT&T, which is a Microsoft IPTV customer already, could give away Xbox 360s for free to subscirbers. Gates said there are a lot of options available, but he wouldn't be able to talk about any customers until later.

He said there ought to be a great "win win" in new business models for the Xbox 360 and IPTV. Asked if the Xbox 360's small 20-gigabyte hard disk was a problem, he said that the Xbox 360 didn't need anything more than that to serve as a set-top. That's because with IPTV, so much is stored on the server and you can access it so quickly that you don't really care about storing things.

"We don't have to change the Xbox 360 at all," he said, holding a glass of red wine.

As far as figuring out an exact strategy with a customer, he said, "We have a year."

He said that the Xbox 360 has enough security built into it that the content players (HBO or what not) would be more comfortable allowing their content to be stored on the Xbox 360. And of course Microsoft announced in December that movie downloading is an option on the Xbox 360.

He said the Xbox 360 would be a high-end set-top and wouldn't really compete with Cisco or Motorola set-top boxes. And he noted that Apple doesn't necessarily have the best relationships with companies such as phone service providers as Microsoft does. So its iTV service may not be as expansive as anything Microsoft does with its partners.

"Jobs always says he doesn't like to go through someone else's orifice," he said.


Posted by InterMilan31 on Jan-12-2007 03:57:

quote:
Originally posted by TheDemon
gears of war is by epic games. lost planet is by capcom.


whoops anyways anyone get it?


Posted by fmodena369 on Jan-12-2007 23:26:

who else has madden 07? Is the game overall just slow to you? I'm curious if it's my system that's making it slow...


Posted by TweeK on Jan-13-2007 09:42:

So i was sitting at my desk, and i looked over to my copy of "Oblivion:IV".

What was weird to me it had a "TEEN" rating. wTF!

But then i clearly read the ESRB content rating which said:

Blood Gore
Language
Sexual Themes
Use of Acholhol
Violence




Shit i havent played it all the way thru maybe (12+ hours) but i know it shouldnt have a teen rating. I mean come on the game it self even has some refrences to Necrophilia.


Anyone want to explain?


Posted by CONNERMAN2000 on Jan-13-2007 11:37:

quote:
Originally posted by TweeK
So i was sitting at my desk, and i looked over to my copy of "Oblivion:IV".

What was weird to me it had a "TEEN" rating. wTF!

But then i clearly read the ESRB content rating which said:

Blood Gore
Language
Sexual Themes
Use of Acholhol
Violence




Shit i havent played it all the way thru maybe (12+ hours) but i know it shouldnt have a teen rating. I mean come on the game it self even has some refrences to Necrophilia.


Anyone want to explain?


In all honesty, the game's rating was changed to Mature about 2 months after it was released. I know only because I work at a video store, and we got M-rated stickers sent to us to be put on our copy of Oblivion that we were renting out to people.


Posted by Cloud on Jan-13-2007 19:01:

Thumbs up

great thread


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