http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/ Engadget Comments for Xbox 360 hands-on preview http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
If you could answer this, that would be very helpful! :)]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
jk, this unit will suck.. woohoo same games with slightly "better" (by better i mean untextured) graphics! ZZZzzz boring! go revolution!]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
Rubbish! If that logic was correct, we'd all be playing Dreamcasts right now.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
Review the games not the machine. Consoles are so powerful now that spec fetishs are just a joke. It's about the games! And erm the controller!]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
Did you happen to notice if the PC was running XP or Media Center?]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/

no, im not crying..theres something on my eye, that all,,,youre crying
i dont cry , i work out!
]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
Also #12, you can get the unit alone at ritzcamera (dot) com]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/It would be really cool if a Nano could be used as a memory card.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
What are you talking about? A lot of Dreamcast games look better than their PS2 versions. Even Soul Calibur 1 looks better than Soul Calibur 2(jaggies galore) on the PS2.

Not to speak about the games like Shenmue 1 & 2, Jet Grind Radio, Sonic etc which are actually truly beautiful. Especially textures look far more crisp on the DC(which has more texturememory).]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
huh?

PS2 and XBOX have strong enough installed base, that most games will still feature ps2 and xbox ports that will outsell ps3/xbox360 versions of the same games for a looong time.

unless you are really the most hardcore console gamer who already has ps2/xbox/gamecube and psp, for at least the next 12 months the best fun/money deal is to buy a used ps2/xbox with a game collection..
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Early adopters and tech geeks..already have their 360's on pre-order but they'll probably buy both systems.

The General public is still getting a lot of enjoyment out of their current X-boxes (Halo 2, Far Cry,) and PS2's (MGS3, DMC, GT4 etc..) and outside of techies like ourselves I just don't see any real buzz around the 360...or the general public clamoring to upgrade...

Sony's massive base will take notice of the 360 launch but I just don't see large numbers of these folks getting a 360.
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To put it in simple terms every screenshot every video of Xbox 360 stuff looks just a tad bit better than current gen

However, when I've seen PS3 stuff it all looks so much better and amazing hmmmm?
Trust your own eyes.

Microsoft constantly says "we belive the graphics gap between PS3 and Xbox 360 are pretty close" Well why not just say The Xbox 360 can blow away the PS3, becuase they know it can not period.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
What looked better - Halo 2 or Halo?

Halo 2 looked better in 4:3 on the SAME platform. With more horsepower in the XBOX 360, expect XBOX 360 games to look great in 4:3 mode than current games in 4:3 or even 16:9 mode.

In most cases 16:9 mode gives you a larger FOV. It doesn't magically make the textures or geometry better.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://gotmaddgamez.blogspot.com. I personally LOVED DOA but I'm a big fighting game fan. The new latino female wrestler was dope. Perfect Dark 0 was cool. But overall my favorite where Need for Speed and DOA. And I really like the Xbox Aracade games and the fact that small indie publishers can get their shine on.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
the xbox 360 has a "windows media center extender" feature, and the extender program (by definition) only connects to windows media center computers. so, would the pc have been running media center? yes, indeed.

"So......will we need to buy a memory card? The harddrive is in fact optional."

if you have the optional hard drive, then you do not need a memory card. that's sort-of why the cheaper xbox 360 bundle is such a poor value: it's one hundred u.s. dollars cheaper than the hard-drive-plus-remote-control bundle, but then you'd still need to buy a forty dollar memory card or one hundred dollar optional hard drive in order to save your game progress. and the hard drive is required for backward-compatibility with old xbox games.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
Because the PS3 is so amazing, my MS friend realized that it was futile to work for MS anymore and has since left and is now growing hydroponic peanuts.

ps, never believe posts like these]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/The point is that since the xbox360 isn't as huge of an improvement as other consoles (N64, Playstation), the difference in texture quality and such will be less noticible. You will be able to see a lot more of the features with a 16:9 40" HDTV than with a 10" B&W tv. Of course, things like HDR and effects/blur will still be easily visible, but I think the difference in resolution with the textures and bump/specular mapping will not be huge without a fairly large SDTV or an HDTV. Hopefully, however, since games playing on an SD set have less pixels to render, it will make the framerates faster.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
Yes. What I was getting at was whether Xbox 360 will provide a significant and noticable difference in graphics and visual experience between an SDTV and an HDTV, to make getting an HDTV worth it.

From the comments, it sounds as though the game viewing experience and graphics resolution will be similar for both an SDTV and an HDTV.

This leaves me a bit confused (or perhaps uninformed). I had read that Xbox 360 supports HD. In this context, does Xbox 360 (and the games themselves) output two different resolutions? That is, an SD (aka 800x600) resolution signal for SDTV and an HD (aka 1920x1080) resolution signal for HDTV. If so, it would seem that the viewing experience and graphics would be much better in HD than in SD, the same way HD movies and television look much better in HD than in SD.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
It just seems like more of the same games from Sony. I'm more interested in some of X360's original titles and Perfect Dark Zero. Also can't wait to see what the Revo's games will be like.

PS3 is technically more powerful but I can't say we'll see a massive difference between the systems due to the limits of the amount of money and time developers have to put into a title.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
that's how it works with PC games, but it's different with xbox 360. xbox 360 games are rendered in 3D at the resolution that the developer chooses, and optimized for that. then there is an analogue video scaler further down the line from the GPU, which (if necessary) re-renders the flattened 2D image at whatever other resolution the user has selected. so, basically, no intentional difference in 3D framerates between one type of TV and another, everybody gets the same framerates regardless of output resolution.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
any tech enthusiast should know that

many products have bombed regardless of awesome spec papers...

people have a really good idea what the awesomeness the 360 can achieve now... sony has YET to show any real material for PS3... til then i'm not gonna make any comparisons

on another note...
need 360 now!]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/1. One would be a fool to buy X-Box now, unless you have money to burn. It'd be best to wait until the HD feature is implemented in the next release in the Spring (along with all the bug fixes since MS is rushing things out the door to grab market share before PS3 comes in.
2. We don't know anything about the PS3, except for the specs on paper. A console's computing power comes from the sum of its components along with software implemention. Thus, no more comparisons until Spring. OK?
3. Nintendo are idiots for not supporting HD in the revolution.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
The big selling point for me on the XBox360 is that the XBox Live service is the best way to play console games online. Sony is leaving online up to the individual game developers like with the PS2 and they will struggle again in the online battle. The XBox360 has integrated voice chat so that you can talk with anyone on your friends list, even if you are playing a game offline or listening to music.

Being able to play co-op games with voice chat with my friends online is the selling point for me. I'm glad that I pre-ordered a non bundled unit when they were still available.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
I guess i'm just really interested in what Nintendo will offer with their new control system. I want to play entirely new games in a new way and I think they might be able to pull it off.

If Microsoft can offer up some new games with the likes of Katamari Damacy where traditional gameplay and ports are tossed out the window, i'll pick one up. But your typical racing and sports games got old even before Dreamcast came out.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/
"In this context, does Xbox 360 (and the games themselves) output two different resolutions?"

Even some current XBOX titles are able to be played in HD or SD. Yet, users without an HDTV are able to play the game on their SD sets. How does it look? I think comparing a show broadcast in SD to the same show broadcast in HD is a good example or the detail you will see. Look at a show in digital SD. Then look at that show in digital HD. Is that difference worth purchasing an HDTV? I'll let you be the judge.

The stuff in the HD broadcast isn't any different, it just comes across in a sharper image because each frame is at a larger resolution and the cables transmitting your HD signal have the bandwidth to support the "heavier" picture. So, you need to have an HD source, pumping clean HD signals, through clean HD pipes, to a clean HD monitor.

Depending on the programming of an XBOX 360 title, a change in resolution does not necessarily mean that the game is accessing different texture maps or better shading techniques.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/xbox-360-hands-on-preview/Dec 19th 2005 12:20AM