Perfect wrote:
> "Brenden D. Chase" <brenden.chaseREMOVE@THISgmail.com> wrote in message
> ...You probably didn't read many post E3 articles that weren't about
> Sony/PS3.  The Alpha Xbox 360 dev kits on hand at E3 have only 1/3 the
> capabilites/power of the (final relase) Xbox 360 console.  This fact was
> pretty much plastered all over most videogame websites.
>
> http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/615/615667p1.html?

"A rough estimate placed these machines at about one-third as powerful
as the 360."

Yes... a "rough" estimate from a 3rd-party developer trying their best
to cover their asses for their sub-par E3 demo.  They could just have
easily claimed "Sure our demo looked like shit... but we were running
it on an Apple IIe!  When it's on the final hardware it's gonna look
freakin' SWEET!"

So we're 4 to 5 months from the xbox360 launch, and game developers
haven't yet received their final devkits?  They're gonna have what... 3
months to tweak and optimize their games?  If that's the case, the
xbox360 launch line-up is gonna both look and play like shit.  Forget
the devkits... shouldn't the final xbox HARDWARE be ready by now??  How
are they going to have any appreciable number of consoles available to
consumers before Christmas if they don't start manufacturing them until
fall?  Granted much of the xbox360 hardware is off-the-shelf, but
still... it takes a while to really ramp up production on consoles.

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