XBOX 360

[Bane]

XBOX - I dont buy microsoft products becuase Bill Gates stole open source from Linux Torvalds and its a mononoploy. plus its big and black and teh only person here who lieks big and balack things hear is Jerry's mom (she drinks a lot of coffee! gross!!!)You take too much of somethingawful.com stuff seriously.You take my penis in your mouth.:shifty:And I like it.When did you get horny!? MUSASHI, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?

[Jordan]

XBOX - I dont buy microsoft products becuase Bill Gates stole open source from Linux Torvalds and its a mononoploy. plus its big and black and teh only person here who lieks big and balack things hear is Jerry's mom (she drinks a lot of coffee! gross!!!)You take too much of somethingawful.com stuff seriously.You take my penis in your mouth.:shifty:And I like it.When did you get horny!? MUSASHI, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?:shifty:

[ReDWasK]

"Since every game is coded differently, Microsoft has to look at each backward compatible Xbox game individually. It has to test each one and create a game nugget to store on Xbox 360 to enable backward compatibility. This is a long and arduous process, and it's forced Microsoft to prioritize some games over others. Thus, "the best-selling games" will come first, and others will come after. Also, Microsoft is trying to get third-party publishers to include code nuggets in this fall's games so those will be instantly backward compatible from day one. Either way you look at it, if you want the Xbox 360 to play Xbox games, you'll want the hard drive, and a little patience from Microsoft on this one." for anus' inquiry

[Bane]

I don't remember this being a problem for the ps1 ps2 compatibility

[Anubis]

"Since every game is coded differently, Microsoft has to look at each backward compatible Xbox game individually. It has to test each one and create a game nugget to store on Xbox 360 to enable backward compatibility. This is a long and arduous process, and it's forced Microsoft to prioritize some games over others. Thus, "the best-selling games" will come first, and others will come after. Also, Microsoft is trying to get third-party publishers to include code nuggets in this fall's games so those will be instantly backward compatible from day one. Either way you look at it, if you want the Xbox 360 to play Xbox games, you'll want the hard drive, and a little patience from Microsoft on this one." for anus' inquirywell i hate to sound whiny, but we shouldnt need patience. they should have it alrdy coded and in the system or they shouldnt of said the console is rdy for purchase. and i actually have a question...you know if they are going to be adding the "nuggets" or "emulators" or whatever they are via live?

[Bane]

poo nuggets *giggle*

[ReDWasK]

yeh i know, i agree with what you're saying, it should have been backwards compatible out of the box 100% like sony's has been, i'm just saying i'm not worried about it cuz it looks like they have most of it covered, like you were saying it'd suck if some really sweet game came out for xbox and couldnt play iti'll just post the article on backwards compatibility, pretty much covers everything we need to know(courtesy of ign.com)Backward CompatibilityWithout officially announcing the details on backward compatibility, Microsoft has basically outlined what is needed to make it work. Initially, the manufacturer said it would support backward compatibility for the "best selling Xbox games." Meaning… a handful of its own first-party titles such as obvious picks Halo, Halo 2, Fable, Forza, etc., plus a select few third-party games, ranging from Madden to Ninja Gaiden to Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. Of course, Microsoft hasn't officially said any of this. But people can put two and two together. Actually, officially, Microsoft has said Halo 2 will be backward compatible in its sell sheets, so that title is confirmed. The other major part of Microsoft's rather stealthy backward compatibility issue is that for all intents and purposes, gamers will need the hard drive to support it. The 64 MB memory card won't be enough. This makes the Premium Package a little more appealing every second we think about it. The reasoning behind the labyrinthine messages comes down to Microsoft's graphics chip strategy. On Xbox, it used an nVIDIA graphics card, while on Xbox 360, it's using an ATI card. To make a long story short, the new custom GPU chip is nothing like the nVIDIA-based GPU on Xbox. One of the main complications is that Microsoft would have to pay a small sum, a percentage of every Xbox 360 sold, to nVIDIA, if it were to include that chip in its new system. As it is, Microsoft has to pay nVIDIA for the emulation chip it's running on Xbox 360, but apparently that sum is far less than it would be had Microsoft used the official nVIDIA GPU.Since every game is coded differently, Microsoft has to look at each backward compatible Xbox game individually. It has to test each one and create a game nugget to store on Xbox 360 to enable backward compatibility. This is a long and arduous process, and it's forced Microsoft to prioritize some games over others. Thus, "the best-selling games" will come first, and others will come after. Also, Microsoft is trying to get third-party publishers to include code nuggets in this fall's games so those will be instantly backward compatible from day one. Either way you look at it, if you want the Xbox 360 to play Xbox games, you'll want the hard drive, and a little patience from Microsoft on this one.

[Recon]

PC owns. Consoles suck. woot :twisted:LOL!Xbox 360 > Your PC, My PC , Snape's PC and anyone on these forums PC.Personal preference of which you like best, but keep in mind these newer console will own any PC on these boards without question. Unless of course someone has 3 G5 processors in thier PC.Dual opteron 8.6 ghz. Currently under testing, worth 15 600$ US. If the xbox is better than that, fuck you allNot that i have it though..

[DesuMacchi]

PC owns. Consoles suck. woot :twisted:LOL!Xbox 360 > Your PC, My PC , Snape's PC and anyone on these forums PC.Personal preference of which you like best, but keep in mind these newer console will own any PC on these boards without question. Unless of course someone has 3 G5 processors in thier PC.Dual opteron 8.6 ghz. Currently under testing, worth 15 600$ US. If the xbox is better than that, fuck you allNot that i have it though.. :shock:Xbox 360 = 3 - 3.0GhZ G5 processors = 9GhZ, .4 more than that 8.6GhZ and $15,200 cheaper

[Shadow]

The way that the X-Box 360 is set up though, you cannot compare it's raw processing power directly to a PC. Even so, a Dual CPU Xeon Mobo with the new 3.2 GHZ Dual Core processors would rape an X-Box 360. That is four physical processors, 12.8 GHZ.