XBox 360 and you....

Thinking about getting one?

Allow me to take the soap box....

We played a few games here at work yesterday in our art lounge. Mind you, only the best for our gaming experience. 60" plasma screen with complete surround sound system. Now, we have stared at Oblivion on this screen for a long, long time, but now we had to see what else was out there.

What we played:
Madden
NFS
Condemned
Kameo

There may have been some others that I wasnt around for, but these are the ones I checked out. Basically, WOW. Condemned is probably the only title there that I would actually be interested in, but after seeing the other titles, I am sold. For one, football never looked so !@#$ing good. Car racing, never so jaw dropping. And little fairy chicks hopping around kicking arse.... well, I dunno, it looked.... cool? Hehe! But ya, if you ever wanted to get a new tv for the 360, it looks like an big fat years worth of savings should go there and another years worth to a surround sound system.

The games and the 360 are definately gonna push the gaming world into a new gaming era. I am VERY excited and want my 360 NOW. Hopefully, Oblivion will be there soon to play a major part in this gaming revolution.

Very exciting stuff is about to happen....

I am excited to hopefully get one... I am taking the day off to get to the stores early. fingers crossed I will get one on launch day.

the screenshot from PGR3 looked so real that the reviewing magazine accused the studio of cheating by releasing FMV footage as in-game experince.

Then they released the wireframes and said... "ha ha ha suck it"

well not really, but you get the idea.

I am thinking about it... but, I have an old 32" TV and my surround sound sub woofer just went up. Really need to replace and upgrade the whole system.

The Xbox360 isn't so bad... it's the peripherals - like TV and sound.

My question is, and not sure if anyone has looked at this yet, but how crappy does it look on a normal TV? I would swing the 360 now and upgrade the TV later when I get some additional cash.

didnt the normal Xbox support HDTV also? i think i read somewhere most the companies didnt make any games which were in HD.

I played Call of Duty 2 the other day on a decent size plasma display, it looks very very nice.

Though I'm still going to wait until next year when the price will be lowered. Still have to finish doom 3 and half life 2...

You can keep track of the pre-order saga here:
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/mess...hreadid=510051
More units were released at CircuitCity.com today at 2pm, but I think they are gone now.

In all honesty, we have our QA dept here testing our game with the 360 on regular analog tvs. No bells and whistles. It doesnt look horrible, but it doesnt look great either. Its no worse than what the Xbox looks like on a regualr tv anyways. It's all in the pretty tricks we developers put into the game that sets it apart from the XBox anyways. ;)

On an HDTV/plasma though, you get bumped to 1080i and it's simply awesome. The XBox has an aftermarket component cable that you can use unstead of the RCA cable it ships with, but there are only a handful of game that are offered in 720-1080. I have yet to see a game on the 360 that isnt offered in 1080i though.

I "should" have my 360 by next Mon or Tues since developers were given an opportunity to get them directly from MS for a much cheaper price. We will see if they actually get here though. Knowing MS, we wont have them until Easter '06.

How do ya think the 360 will compare to the PS-3???

yeah, isn't the ps3 supposed to be better?

uhm

no.

I'm actually holding out for the Playstation3. I believe it will be a better system, cell processor, 50GB blu-ray discs, HDMi outputs, I own about 50 PS2 games, etc.

The 360 is definatley impressive, I've played CoD2 and it looks great. I think it may have been rushed to market, but I guess we'll see. I did read a bit the other day about M$ pumping false shortage to increase interest/demand, I figure it's cause they already know it will be an outdone 'old' system sometime next year. Not a long life for a console...

Regardless, I wouldn't buy either till I upgrade my television. I've got my eye on a DLp. But like ISCE said, it's the peripherals that you have to worry about.

What do I think?

I think the PS3 is still a long ways away, so for now, The 360 will be the best, heh.

Seriously, Sony hasnt even sent us development kits, so I REALLY dont think they even know what they box will do. You can read this and that on the internet all you want, but until the actual developers get kits in, the hardware is only speculation. I do look forward to working with the PS3 though. I am a huge Sony fan and I hope they can stay on top of their empire in the industry.

Nintendo Revolution however.... what can I say. With that stupid as all hell controller gig they are going with, they may as well just give up and start making fishing rods.

I have read quite a few articles about the Xbox 360, but not one answered my only question... will the new system play "old" Xbox games? Every article talked about the improved graphics (no duh, what a shocker... a new system is better than the previous version!!!), etc. and raved about it, and then failed to mention wether or not my $1500 worth of games would even work on the damn thing... brilliant! Even the Xbox 360 website is useless... unless you want to watch a green glowing dot circle endlessly. Retards. The reason I got a PS2 was it would play all the older titles too. The only reason I got an Xbox in the first place was because I won it from Taco Hell. However, it is a great system & hooked me on Halo. Oh, well (unless one of you know the facts) I guess it'll remain a mystery.

Noct, lack of information is sometimes informative in and of itself! :D