XBox 360 "are you wanting it" thread

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I don't know why so many people seem to think this round of consoles is coming too soon. It's always happened every five years or so.

The DS was a giant flop.

The DS was only ever supposed to be something to provide competition for the PSP and hold fans over until Nintendo is finished working on their next GameBoy. I'd say it's serving its purpose well.

[XxSephirothxX]

Playstation has always had the best "Exclusive" games(by exclusive I mean games that are out on only one system.) Sony gets games from many publishers like Capcom, Konami, Square Enix, ya know stuff like that. Thats where X-Box and Nintendo fail. The DS was a giant flop. Although many people bought it there are barely any games for it, and name one thats actually good. As of now, Sony controls every aspect of gaming. The PSP looks awesome by the way. Here is some contact I had with an Xbox nerd:
Nerd: Why are you looking at PS2 when you could get an X-Box
Me: PS2 has better games and I'm not made of money
Nerd: X-Box has the best graphics
Me: Do I really care? Graphics dont make a good game.
Nerd: .......X-Box has better games
Me: Name one other than Halo or Halo2
Nerd:.........
Me: Exactly. On PS2 you can get God of War, Shadow of Rome, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, CastleVania and a whole bunch of other things.
Nerd: Im better than you!
Me: Okay, your a complete nerd, 30 pounds overweight, looks like you fail Phys.Ed, and you own every game system known to man.
Nerd: So?
Me: So get a life, loose some weight, and maybe loose some games. GET OUTSIDE.
Nerd: I hate you!
Me: Cool, now go tell someone else that cares.

I think everyone here knows what the word "exclusive" means, and Nintendo is the single-best first party developer on the planet. They make the best exclusive games, hands down. Sony gets the best third party support, but their first-party stuff isn't amazing. The DS had some good games--Wario Ware Touched!, Mario 64 DS, etc. I don't have one, though. And I refuse to believe that conversation is real, as you mentioned virtually every single fanboy cliche imaginable. KOTOR is just one other great exclusive game the Xbox has, and there are indeed others. And none of it was really relevant at all.

[Necronopticous]

By the way, have you guys seen the screenshots for Perfect Dark Zero? It's the most awful looking game I've ever seen on as a launch title. It looks like a bad PS2 game, I can't believe Microsoft is even letting this game be published.

http://www.1up.com/do/media?cId=3138147

It's a total joke, it almost makes me wonder if it actually IS a joke.

[Super Christ]

I'm sure it's a joke, considering they were supposedly going to do it back when the Gamecube was new, and then we never heard anything about it again besides Rare moving to XBox.

[omnitarian]

Those Perfect Dark Zero shots make me glad that Nintendo is making their console move forward conceptually, instead of just graphically.

It also makes me glad that Nintendo cashed in their chips. The "chips" refer to Rareware. Hmm... I'm no good at metaphors.

[Necronopticous]

I'm sure it's a joke, considering they were supposedly going to do it back when the Gamecube was new, and then we never heard anything about it again besides Rare moving to XBox.

I honestly don't think it's a joke, it's listed everywhere as being an actual Xbox 360 title.

[Maxico]

I've been looking around at a few of these screen shots and frankly I can't see any graphical leap what so ever.

[Necronopticous]

I see a huge graphical leap... Unfortunately it's a leap in the wrong direction.

[CloudSquallandZidane]

Too bad no games with take hold of PS3's potential. Or else it might be the best.

[MecaKane]

Pretty much all of the info I read about 360's spec leaks. I had a link to it but I lost it. Besides, I don't see why it SHOULDN'T get Backwards compatability. If I know Microsoft they'll put it in just to make people wanna buy it more.

If wishing something made it so, I'd be playing Xenosaga episode 3 for PS3 on my forewards compatable PS2. But it's not so.

Oh, and I don't really care about it blah blah blah. I'm not getting an Xbox.

[lordblazer]

eat this Xbox2.... PS3 specs: *Cellular Processors - powerPC
*8 APUs - Vectorial Processors each with 128K memory
*System will run at 4GHZ or 256Gflops
*1024 Bit switched front side bus
*64MB of switching memory

Bit "Emotion Engine 3" aka "Cell" 8 Indetical Attached Processing Unit (APU): Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD)

4 X FPU: 32 billion floating point operations per second (32 GFLOPS)
4 X Integer Units: 32 billion operations per second (32 GOPS)

256 GFLOPS

64 Bit XDR-RAM at 6.4GHz (Rambus, "Yellowstone"/"Redwood")

Memory Bus Bandwidth: dual-channel 102.4 GB/sec


Maximum Polygon Rate PS1:360,000 polygons/sec
PS2:75 million polygons/sec
PS3:6 billion polygons/sec


Disk Device/Speed:CD-ROM
DVD-ROM

Blu-Ray ROM


Interfaces: 4 X USB 2.0 Port
i. S400 I-Link™ (IEEE1394) connector

AV MULTIOUT connector

4 X Controller Port (Wireless??)

10/100 Ethernet

Supported File Systems:ISO 9960 Level 1, CD File System
UDF (Universal Disk Format), DVD File System



plus PS3 will use blue-ray dics that hold up to 56GB......almost twice as much as the next Xbox's hd-dvds...PS3 rules ALL!!!

Yeah really its just a video game system and poeple who become fans over a system or gaming company are just people who are supporting da man! and being da man's lapdog.

Anyway I can't wait for PS3 and xbox 360 to come out.My dad will get me a discount on the PS3 (works for sony in the upper mangement department in georgia).And I'll just make my sister buy the the xbox 360 or if all goes to worse i will buy it myself.But if i do buy it.I'll wait 6 months so the price will go down.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

XBox has never really caught my attention. There are a few games that have been mildly interesting to me, but not enough to make me want to shell out the cash to buy it. XBox 360 (I maintain the number is what the price will be) is no different. If you want me to buy a console, you have to give me games worth playing.

I will be looking into PS3, and I will probably look at Revolution since I still have some excess Nintendo devotion lurking around (and if another Smash Bros. game comes out it WILL be mine). XBox just doesn't do anything to make me want to buy it.

[Sepho]

I don't really get excited for new games and consoles like I used to, so I guess I haven't really been paying attention to the end of the current generation and the hype concerning the consoles of the next.

I doubt there will be any launch title for any console that will interest me enough to warrant a purchase at launch (I don't really buy new consoles when they first hit the market anyway).

I could survive for years on the games for the current generation consoles, so I'm in no rush to spend a grand on all new hardware when I could just buy a crapload of new games and play those. I could buy a modded Dreamcast, put a few hundred SNES ROMs on a CD-R, and be content with that, for that matter.

[Halifax Housewife]

In regards to Perfect Dark Zero, I think a lot of you people need to realize that the game is not finished yet - it's only in the latter stages of development. Give it time. It's going to look amazing.

[Excelsior]

that game looks retarded anyway because of joanna darks dumbass hairstyle. wtf is up with that crap? i thought she was supposed to be joanna dark, not joanna stylin-bright-orange. jesus.