"Bill Cable" <billcable@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> 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.

That's what i was thinking... how is the console not playable yet. Sony had 
PS2's playable before launch... what's MS hiding? I really hope the system 
is alot more powerful than they've shown. Otherwise its going to get blown 
out of the water come spring. The dev kit that the tech demos were running 
on at E3 for Sony were 75% of the power of the final product. And they look 
spectacular. If MS really was running demos on 1/3rd the power then why 
wasnt the graphics at least looking good and the frame rate just choppy?? 
The graphics looked like nothing better than current xbox stuff, you cant 
deny that... but the excuse is the dev kits at 1/3rd power... well when i 
run Half Life 2 on my computer it looks marvelous, if i tried to run it on 
my sisters computer it would look marvelous, but the FPS would be like 4. 
So anyone that says that the games looked like shit for 360 because of the 
1/3 powered dev kits is majorly mistaken.


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