Grandmaster said:Don't see the humor, and this has been known for a while
Xie said:Interesting that they went thru the trouble of trying to make people think they were actually playing on a 360. Why not just say we don't have a final prototype, but we do have some demo's? I guess when it's all about flash and hype it doesn't matter when you don't have the real deal?
Yep, more on that here:Grandmaster said:Every interview that J Allard and every other MS exec gave, they repeatedly said that the current games are running at alpha hardware which is only 30% of the power of what the final hardware will be like. That is why there are a few games that are choppy.
Beta dev kits are supposed to be just around the corner, and they will be actually 360s then.
Xie said:I understand the whole alpha hardware thing, I just think it rather shaddy to put a non-functional 360 in a kiosk window and pretend it's actually rendering the games/demo's is all.
Xie said:I understand the whole alpha hardware thing, I just think it rather shaddy to put a non-functional 360 in a kiosk window and pretend it's actually rendering the games/demo's is all.
So the console war is like politics? The one that can throw the most BS wins?RickyC said:It's called marketing and this is what wins the console wars.
This is what happened with the first PS, Sony made it 'Cool' to have a PlayStation even though imho the Sega Saturn was a better console. Same with the PS2, the Dreamcast was out long before it, was comparable on graphix even though it was an older console and had some kickass games for it. Problem was Sega's marketing department got trounced by Sony's. So Sega focused on what they're best at, making games. I can see the same thing happening to Nintendo :cry:
Microsoft on the other hand are playing Sony at their own game and have tonnes of cash to throw at it, just like Sony.
SPeedY_B said:By hiding it away so you can only see the front? Not a very good method of presentation is it?
I honestly don't think the factor that demo's were running on G5's was a secret, were it meant to be, they would of been better concealed. It's good to know that the demo's were running on 6800's though (Why didn't they use X800's?), and shall look even better when they start utilising the real 360 hardware
RickyC said:It's called marketing and this is what wins the console wars.
This is what happened with the first PS, Sony made it 'Cool' to have a PlayStation even though imho the Sega Saturn was a better console. Same with the PS2, the Dreamcast was out long before it, was comparable on graphix even though it was an older console and had some kickass games for it. Problem was Sega's marketing department got trounced by Sony's. So Sega focused on what they're best at, making games. I can see the same thing happening to Nintendo :cry:
Microsoft on the other hand are playing Sony at their own game and have tonnes of cash to throw at it, just like Sony.