Xbox Unveiling Tonight on MTV 175
GamesIndustry.biz has a reminder that the Elijah Woods hosted Xbox 360 unveiling will be happening tonight on MTV. From the article: "Microsoft has already said that it will demonstrate 'the Xbox vision for the next generation,' which 'ensures that the user experience is always connected, always personalised and always in high definition'."
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I want my, I want my.... (Score:3, Funny)
Seems like they should have unveiled it instead on CNN on "Anderson Cooper 360". It fits with the name better than unveiling it on the "48 Hour Road Rules Marathon" channel.
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I've already heard someone refer to it as "The Xbox Reach Around"
Local Newspaper (Score:5, Informative)
While I own a PS2, I look at games like Forza Racing on the xbox and it's competition like this that we desperately need. Games like Gran Turismo has been sitting at the top for too long.
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At the moment, the PS2 has a gigantic selection of RPG's available, compared to the other consoles. That's why I bought one, anyway.
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The PS1 has some really fun games. Even stuff like Loony Tunes Racing is a blast, which boosts the PS2's library of _fun_ games by a large margin.
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Wasn't their market penetration for the gameboy like around 90% until the psp came along?
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I own them all.
So which category do I fall into?
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Actually, this is marketshare, i.e. percentage of all consoles sold in a given timespan. You'd count the same as three different people buying one console each.
Re:Local Newspaper (Score:2)
> Gamecube. PS2. Xbox.
> I own them all.
> So which category do I fall into?
People with way too much free time?
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If they're wrong, and their product is really so shit that they can't hype its way to success, they pull the "In only four years we've fought off the big bad wolf to make significant inroads in this extremely competitive market, in two years we will own the etire market with Xbox version X+1. Love us, we're the underdog and we're fightin
Most Repulsive Combination Ever (Score:4, Funny)
It's the three things I despise the most.
Seriously, what demographic is Microsoft trying to reach? The people who know the least about good gaming? Oh, wait, I think I figured it out...
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G4 is rapidly circling the drain
GTRacer
- Leaves Webb-surfing jokes to others
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1) for drinking Coke
2) For your insights into G4, Well not actually insights just stating the obvious
What type of workstation did I almost get sticky????
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But in geek fashion, I have lots of toys on and around it: Several Matchbox cars racing around on the case, a number of the SW Ep I happy meal toys around the monitor, a monkey and all sorts of cables.
A while back, I was here on a weekend and popped open a Coke from my mini-fridge. I took a sip, walked to the kitchen, came back, took another sip, and *whoosh*. A live spider had climbed in and I almst swallowed him. In my shock, I spewed EVERYWHERE without t
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Correction, G4 is NOT circling around the drain, it has already gone down the drain, through the pipes, into the sewers and out into the ocean.
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1) Audience Size
2) Stick one in the eye of G4
Just my 2 cents..
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Perhaps The Weather Channel will be playing the latest music video from $ARTIST.
MSNBC will have a special hour playing the Firefox promo videos.
The Golf channel will be unveiling the latest cadillac vehicle.
It's a crazy mixed-up world.
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Thanks to DVRs and VCRs people will be able to skip a lot of the crap and goto the sparce 5 mins they will actually talk about the 360.
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MTV has music now?!
Bye, bye, a blue screen will I die (Score:3, Funny)
"And the three things I despise the most,"
Xbox, Elijah, and MTV's host"
They caught a virus, and now they're toast
Because... the Xbox...fried.
And they were singin'...
Re:Most Repulsive Combination Ever (Score:2, Informative)
Your not forced to buy it, to use it, to look at or to even consider it. It's just a collection of plastic and circuitry.
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Not interested (Score:1, Interesting)
I guess I still don't buy MS as a game company. I was looking at Rare's newest offering for the X-Box and realized it isjust a rehash of Conker's Bad Fur Day. Nothing against conker, but can't Rare at least put him in a new adventure instead of just prettying up an older game? I realize that Capcom did this with Resident Evil on the cu
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Wow, you're pretty clever. I never thought of that!
(You realize it was announced as remake, right? The new stuff is the extensive multiplayer mode.)
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Re:The new Rare titles aren't so hot? Surprising.. (Score:1)
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always... (Score:2)
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Too Soon? (Score:2)
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1. Lose a buttload on xbox, gaining market recognition.
2. Sell system that blows the pants off anything coming out for the next 6 months to a year, AND before christmas.
3. Profit!
Re:Too Soon? (Score:2)
The thing does a TeraFLOP! It's hugely more powerful than ANY PCs on the market now.
Re:Too Soon? (Score:2)
Yes. A TeraFLOP. Check the specs then come back when you have the courage to put your name on it.
Not soon enough (Score:1)
Does Microsoft think they can beat the PS3 in stats in the future? That is a big unknown, but they do know they can definately beat the PS2 hands down by a huge margin now.
By coming out a year earlier, they can attract some game developers to their side. As we know, it'll be the quality of the games that will ultimately decide the outcome.
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dick
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Towards the end of my NES console's life, getting a game to run for more than an hour was an effort. There was even a procedure: blow in it twice, blow in the console, wipe the contacts with alcohol, allow to dry, PRAY, then turn the console on. If the screen wasn't totally garbage, you could get a few levels into a game like SMB3 before either the picture corrupted or the game just froze. And even worse, there was a chance it would corrupt your save games (remember
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You ever seen SMB3 crash? Heck no!
I'm making the point that, YES, I have seen consoles crash. Specificly, I HAVE seen SMB3 crash, due to the flawed combo of a weak-72 pin connector and a sensitive Lockout chip. [wikipedia.org]
Relevant line from that link: Unfortunately, inadequate testing of this design prior to release resulted in one of the NES's most infamo
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Unveiling? (Score:2)
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aka MTV's target audience.
BAD TIMING - Same as Apprentice (Score:1, Offtopic)
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Sony knew the Apprentice demo overlapped their own and they paid to have their product featured as one of the projects on the show. I wish MS had done this or been as smart
NOT the Xbox 360, according to Xbox rep... (Score:5, Interesting)
Anyway, thought you'd like to know, if you didn't already.
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well.. last chance: "Xbox next" (Score:2)
Why xbox next? Theres a nice puzzle in colony.org revealing that in ascii code, also xbox360.com has been bought by some kid. xboxnext.com belongs to MS and last but not least, gamasutra has the console listed as "xbox next".
We shall see if I was right in about 2 hours.
Some other things to find out:
Backward compability.
Xbox live for free.
Hard drive yes or no.
Hey if you dont w
This is really lame... (Score:1)
Mostly glitz. Very little info. No word on backward compatibilty.
The system is lame looking and still too big. Madden was the only clip that impressed at all.
The funny thing... They are targeting teens and 20 somethings. Samsung is co-promoting HDTVs with XBox 360. How many in that age range can afford both the game system and the HDTV to really enjoy it?
Clue M$, just because you have Frodo and some ganagsta wannabes doesn't make you cool. It just shows how lame and tru
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That was terrible (Score:4, Interesting)
pacman, atari, xbox, xbox in hd...
the game footage they showed was terrible.
doom3 has better graphics.
i thought this thing was supposed to be more advanced than today's PCs.
with a product such as this, there's no way they'll be able to keep up with real next gen consoles...
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and my god, did you see all the babes there? if only they knew that I have years of experience playing the games!
mtv 360: God awful (Score:1)
Wow, that show was god awful.
I think it comes down to, playing games is amazing fun... watching people play games, watching people talk about games, watching people talk about how they are going to play a game, well *that* just really sucks.
That show... actually made gaming in general, look well, incredibly stupid.
Only high point, watching the final transformation of J Allard from dullard windows network geek, to 'far too old to pull off' mtv rad dude. Worth the whole pile of stinking program to see that
mtv 360: God awful (Score:1)
I think it comes down, playing games is amazing fun.
Watching people play games, talk about games, talk about playing games, well that just sucks.
I think in general, that show actually made gaming look pathetically stupid.
Only high point, seeing the final transformation of J. Allard from dullard windows networking geek to mtv cool rad dude wannabe.
Sad moment: realizing that I will be paying more money to play the same old games with fancier graphics.
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After seeing the Xbox 360 .... (Score:3, Insightful)
The Phantom is dead!!!!
Long live the Phantom!!!!!
Xbox 360 kind of looks like a Phantom on Steroids. Infinum Labs could learn alot from Microsoft's unveiling.
I can just hear it...
"Boys I'm buying you a Phantom for Christmas"
"But Grandma if you get us an Xbox 360 we can give you our X-box for you house so we can play games with you when we visit"
"You boys are so good looking out for Grandma, now if we can just get your lazy as father off the couch"
Video Files available on MTV.com (Score:3)
Note - requires nasty proprietary combinations of Windows, Media Player, Internet Explorer, and DRM. I've seen the future, and it is locked down. They're also, oddly enough, significantly longer than what was shown on MTV.
These videos do show an impressive amount of physics, which is really what is missing from gaming currently. The graphics don't seem to be enough to wow, and I'm not looking forward to how much that much content will cost to develop, but certainly having that much extra processing power will come in handy. Hopefully it will go to making a better gaming experience rather than just a higher-poly, more normal mapped / enviornment mapped one. Condemned didn't give much hope, but the draw distance and physics in the other games was impressive.
Unfortunately, the most impressive things on new systems seem to be the tech demos. I remember the Xbox ping-pong demo was just stunning, probably moreso than the first round of games, as was the detail on the Dolphin for the Dolphin, or the PS2 shell screen. I'm kind of sad that there aren't any really "wow" demos for the Xbox 360, as a good tech demo is always an impressive, if pointless piece of eye candy.
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Those whacky MTV kids (Score:2)
Oh? They are actually consuming tech now? I guess those stupid kids think that the "chips" are corn chips.
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Just because a court says it does not mean it is true. It is unfortunately common, for example, for the guilty to be declared innocent by the court, and for the innocent to get declared guilty.
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Old news is so exciting! [forumpics.info]
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Re:November? (Score:2)
I think you need to look up the difference between "unveiling" and "releasing".
This is not news, though - even the headline calls it a "reminder". People have known about this unveiling for several weeks (if not months?) now. It has nothing to do with the launch in November - consoles are always unveiled before they're launched (well, except for the Sega Saturn, and we all saw how well that went over).
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Clever clever
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Wait, Microsft has been making press releases? Then who is running the viral marketing ARG campaign at www.ourcolony.net, where it seems to be the only place any "real" "information" is coming from?
Microsoft has been making announcements that any manufacturer of a new mass-market product would
So that is what you call the gibberish/vague images being released form that site, and their not confirming or denying the various
It makes perfect sense (Score:1)
Re:Is it really going to be called 360? (Score:2)
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Why not the XSphere? "The Best XSpherience Ever!"
See? Writes itself.
It ain't the Davinci code... (Score:1)
Let's see... Elijah Wood (Frodo).
Hmm, Xbox 360... Xbox - fairly obvious.
360 - relating to degrees, a circle, a ring! The Precious?
Wait, would that make Bill Gates Sauron or Gollum?
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Marketing department? Haven't you noticed that in nearly every comments section about Microsoft, 99% of the posts are dicing up Microsoft to be fed to a pack of rabid coyotes?
There aren't even that many comments for this article, meaning, largely, people don't care. The people who do care enough to post are ambivilent.
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