Aus PS3 launch, "underwhelming"
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Microsoft boss goes on next-gen warpath.
Microsoft UK boss Neil Thompson has become the latest critic of Sony's decision to include a Blu-ray drive in its next-gen PlayStation 3 console as standard. Thompson was responding to a suggestion that the PS3's Blu-ray capabilities give the console an advantage over his own company's Xbox 360.
"Do I want to make people pay £200 extra for a machine with discs that have storage space I don’t need? My answer’s no, I don’t need to do that today," blustered Thompson to GamesIndustry.biz. "And I don’t think I’m going to need to do that for quite a while. I’m not sure the market has moved to high definition [movies] yet," he added. "And if and when it does, then the way that we’ve constructed the offering we’ve made [360 users have the option of purchasing a separate HD-DVD drive for their console] means we’ll be able to go whichever way we want."
He wasn't about to leave things at that, arguing that Xbox 360 games would use advanced compression techniques and content delivered via Xbox Live to counter the extra storage space offered by Blu-ray disks. "I’d be really surprised if technologically, and we’re a software company, we couldn’t get to a situation where we can deliver whatever content we need to," he said. "This is about the architecture of the hardware. With the PS3, you’ve got a big, heavy truck that requires a big, heavy engine. With Xbox you’ve got a much more nimble box that uses software in the architecture of the box in a much more nimble way.
"That’s the difference between us and PlayStation - we didn’t have a need to develop a really complicated engine to get Blu-ray players into the market. We wanted to deliver HD gaming. Judge us on what we’ve done.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=23761
Microsoft boss goes on next-gen warpath.
Microsoft UK boss Neil Thompson has become the latest critic of Sony's decision to include a Blu-ray drive in its next-gen PlayStation 3 console as standard. Thompson was responding to a suggestion that the PS3's Blu-ray capabilities give the console an advantage over his own company's Xbox 360.
"Do I want to make people pay £200 extra for a machine with discs that have storage space I don’t need? My answer’s no, I don’t need to do that today," blustered Thompson to GamesIndustry.biz. "And I don’t think I’m going to need to do that for quite a while. I’m not sure the market has moved to high definition [movies] yet," he added. "And if and when it does, then the way that we’ve constructed the offering we’ve made [360 users have the option of purchasing a separate HD-DVD drive for their console] means we’ll be able to go whichever way we want."
He wasn't about to leave things at that, arguing that Xbox 360 games would use advanced compression techniques and content delivered via Xbox Live to counter the extra storage space offered by Blu-ray disks. "I’d be really surprised if technologically, and we’re a software company, we couldn’t get to a situation where we can deliver whatever content we need to," he said. "This is about the architecture of the hardware. With the PS3, you’ve got a big, heavy truck that requires a big, heavy engine. With Xbox you’ve got a much more nimble box that uses software in the architecture of the box in a much more nimble way.
"That’s the difference between us and PlayStation - we didn’t have a need to develop a really complicated engine to get Blu-ray players into the market. We wanted to deliver HD gaming. Judge us on what we’ve done.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=23761
New Xbox in 5 Years?
Our friends over at Destructoid report that a new Xbox could already be in the works, set for a 2011-2012 release. Here’s the full Peter Moore snippet:
In an interview with Peter Moore, EGM grilled him about when the next one would come out, and questions about if they’d drop the X360 like a box of rocks like they did with the 360. He said that they were going to support it “as long as it sold” which is BS, because the Xbox sold well into this year despite no producting after Oct. 2005.
At any rate, he stated the production team from the 360 is working on the next Xbox, and their looking into what kind of CPUs will be available on the market in 2011-2012….( I think he meant April 29th 2007)
http://www.destructoid.com/peter-moore-new-xbox-360-in-five-years-30388.phtml
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