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Xbox Unveiling Tonight on MTV 175

Posted by Zonk from the i-want-my-geek-tv dept.
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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  • bsod (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Technetium Web ( 758174 )
    i wonder if it'll bsod this time? or is it a gsod now?
    • I guess you haven't heard that it's RSOD, Red Screen of Death, like Longhorn
    • To badly quote Sting and Dire Straits: "I want my, I want my, I want my BSOD!"

      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.

    • Re:bsod (Score:2, Funny)

      by ABaumann ( 748617 )
      Actually, that's part of teh AWESOME functionality of the XBOX 360. The new graphics capabilities will allow for a fully rendered screen of death. Sources close to Microsoft claim to have seen the new death screen with a 3-D rendering of the Jolly Roger, but Microsoft claims that those machines have pirated software.
      • sounds great! i can just imagine a beautiful 3d rendering with "ERROR OUT OF MEMORY!!!" complete with 1024x1024 texturemapping, of course with bumpmapping and specular highlights and realistic reflections and caustics.

    • Re:bsod (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward

      I've already heard someone refer to it as "The Xbox Reach Around"

  • Local Newspaper (Score:5, Informative)

    by superpulpsicle ( 533373 ) on Thursday May 12, 2005 @12:06PM (#12509893)
    There is a massive section in my local newspaper on this today. M$ claim by 2006, xbox will have close to 40% of the market, while PS2 will have 50%.

    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.

    • Re:Local Newspaper (Score:3, Informative)

      by Momoru ( 837801 )
      Yeah i had my doubts about Forza, but after buying GT4 and Forza I will never play GT4 again. It seems like almost no effort whatsoever was put into it, besides adding more cars and tracks. It plays exactly like GT1, which is extremely boring and tedious. I'm not sure why PS2 is so popular, as it seems like most of the games that come out for it are crap, or out on another system with better graphics. The only PS2 games i've bought since i got my xbox and gabecube were Katamary darmacy and GT4.
      • I'm not sure why PS2 is so popular, as it seems like most of the games that come out for it are crap, or out on another system with better graphics.

        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.
    • those numbers don't even take into account Nintendo, which will still be around. Also Nintendo still has the edge in portables, which isn't as big a market in the US.

      Wasn't their market penetration for the gameboy like around 90% until the psp came along?

    • Re:Local Newspaper (Score:1, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward
      I like the way Microsoft tries to predict their way into the future. It's a tactic that only works on sheeple, but most mainstream newsmedia consumers are sheeple anyway.

      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)

    by theclam159 ( 833616 ) on Thursday May 12, 2005 @12:07PM (#12509913)
    Xbox...Elijah Wood...MTV...
    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...

    • Re:Most Repulsive Combination Ever (Score:4, Funny)

      by mbrewthx ( 693182 ) on Thursday May 12, 2005 @12:15PM (#12510007)
      If they wanted to do that they would have introduced it on G4.

      • Dammit! I was >this close< to spewing Coke all over my workstation. Again.

        G4 is rapidly circling the drain

        GTRacer
        - Leaves Webb-surfing jokes to others

        • If I had mod points I'd MOD you up...
          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????
          • Nothing special, just a Dell Opti 260 tower.

            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

        • G4 is rapidly circling the drain

          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.
          • Just hit me after watching the X-box 360 show on MTV. TechTV was owned by Vulcan Enterprises, which is owned by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. He sold it to Comcast and they gutted it as we all know. The shows on G4 make gamers look like stupid childish idots. Maybe choosing MTV was for the following reasons.
            1) Audience Size
            2) Stick one in the eye of G4

            Just my 2 cents..
      • It is a bit odd that a station for music is showing a debut for a video game console, while a video game station isn't. That's major egg on the face of G4. Oh well, here comes some more reruns of Icons(yay! the sid meier episode AGAIN!)

        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.

    • "Xbox...Elijah Wood...MTV... It's the three things I despise the most."

      "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'...

    • It's understandable how you can despise a media personality or a broadcast channel but how can you despise hardware?

      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.
    • Elijah Wood: You mean you have to use your hands. That's for little kids.

  • Not interested (Score:1, Interesting)

    by Hellad ( 691810 )
    It is hard to say what I am less interested, the current music scene on mtv or the new X-Box. To me, both are paler imitations of greater things in older generations...

    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
    • Did you play the demo? It seemed quite a bit different than the N64 version... Very fun too.

      • Re:Not interested (Score:2, Interesting)

        by Hellad ( 691810 )
        I believe the demo is the multiplayer section, correct? That is new. The single player is the remake of the original. The single player adventure has been censored (who would have thought that nintendo would have the "adult" version of the game...) and made significantly easier. According to the preview on IGN, the game took the player around 20 hours on the original version and only 7 hours on the remake...
        • Umm, I'm not really sure... I just remember playing a demo that came with a game that was an omaha beach-like level. I never beat conker's on N64, but I don't remember playing that level.
    • 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?
      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.)
      • Yeah, I realize that. But it would seem to me if this is going to be Rare's flagship title and Rare is one of MS's crown jewel developers, they can do better than a remake. Some call this a contender for the top game for e3. To me, a remake of a 5 year old Nintendo game isn't all that much to brag about.

  • "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'." ... and always empty your wallet.

    Seriously how much is this thing going to cost?

    Sera

  • Is it too soon for another XboX? The PS2 has been around longer and it's still got maybe a year before the PS3 is out. There are still plenty of great games being released for each system. Is MS jumping the gun a little and pushing too hard just to be first to market with the next console?

    • Re:Too Soon? (Score:2, Interesting)

      by mconeone ( 765767 )
      Have you seen the supposed specs? The thing is more powerful than a majority of PCs on the market now. The games will push toward the ultimate goal of being photorealistic. MS has already lost a ton of money on the xbox, IMO with the goal being market dominance.

      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!
    • I don't think it's too soon. Especially since the PS3 has unknown real performance stats and a extremely powerful (theoretically) processor.

      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.

  • More likely: "confirmation of all the information we leaked all over the internet ;)" I guess it may be called an unveiling for those who havent checked the web,tv and comics for at least 2 months or so.
  • Damn. I dunno what I'm going to watch. What a lousy time slot to choose!
    • You sir, are obviously not the target demographic!
      • No, see, I am the target. I'm 27, male, and single with a good chunk of discretionary income. I owned an Xbox and 30 games. I ordered the original in advance as part of a bundle that had 2 controllers, 4 games, and the DVD remote. I received it on the morning of release. I'm likely to do the same with the next Xbox if I like what I see.

        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

  • I work at a retail store, and the Xbox rep. was in today, making sure that I know about the unveiling on MTV. He let me know that the name was going to be call Xenon, not the 360. I'm assuming that that is the correct spelling.

    Anyway, thought you'd like to know, if you didn't already.
  • This is my last chance to predict the name will be "xbox next" not 360.( but by now Im not sure). check the time this was posted.

    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
  • Currently watching the special.

    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
    • Samsung is heavily promoting, and investing in HDTV. They may be planning to introduce some cheaper HDTV sets when the Xbox 360 is introduced. It would make sense for them and Microsoft.

  • That was terrible (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Tibor the Hun ( 143056 ) on Thursday May 12, 2005 @10:27PM (#12515769)
    history of gaming according to xbox:
    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...

    • I agree. I found the '360 quite unimpressive actually. And here is a thing that I thought about. The if the one version with the hard drive is backwards compatible, will it have controller ports? Since they are all wireless..... What about my DDR pads? Will those work? The graphics also didn't look too much better than other systems either. Microsoft, you better not pull a Dreamcast on us.....
      • the graphics were my biggest shock. it was a WTF? moment.. I don't think sony and nintendo have to worry. (as long as they include wireless controllers, those are nice)

        and my god, did you see all the babes there? if only they knew that I have years of experience playing the games!

  • 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
  • Wow, that show was god awful.

    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.
  • That show sucked. I can definitely say that I am not their target audience. I did not see anything during the 2 minutes of actual footage that made me think that this was hundreds of dollars better than what currently exists with the XBox.

  • After seeing the Xbox 360 .... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by mbrewthx ( 693182 ) on Thursday May 12, 2005 @11:36PM (#12516219)
    All I have to say is

    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)

    by cgenman ( 325138 ) on Friday May 13, 2005 @12:04AM (#12516363) Homepage
    http://www.mtv.com/games/video_games/xbox/index.jh tml [mtv.com]

    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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