[IceFire]

Likely a fabrication and a farce but hey they are pretty nifty looking and it gives you a bit of an idea of what a finished X-Box 2 would look like.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/9253838747326816/

I wonder if the new X-Box would be compatible with the old one...

I want to play Halo 2 some day

[mrfun]

/shamelessbashmode 1

Condoles should all be pitched into the flames of doom or at least keep their dirty paws and marketing ploys out of PC games, they and their lousy game designs are ruining PC titles that could've been cool, noone should ever be allowed to buy a console aver again1!!!!1
!1!1

/shamelessbashmode 0

[Rictor]

Yeah, probably fake, but still. The first one looks uggggly, though the second one is kind of cool. Its seems everyone is trying to copy Apple designs these days.

[Ace]

Well consoles aren't that bad. While there's been tons of mediocre titles due to them (Deus Ex 2, etc.) there's also games like Morrowind where the PC version has the same level of quality additional features that allow for more replay value such as Morrowind's construction set.

The one X-Box 2 game I am waiting for is Oblivion, a sequel to Morrowind, which will also be out for PC.

Here's some Oblivion screens. They're scans from a magazine so the quality isn't super-great:

[Rictor]

luverly

[aldo_14]

Consoles are good for any game you want to play in the living room whilst slightly non-sober at 3 in the morning with mates.  Like Mario Kart, or Pro Evo.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by IceFire
Likely a fabrication and a farce but hey they are pretty nifty looking and it gives you a bit of an idea of what a finished X-Box 2 would look like.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/9253838747326816/

I wonder if the new X-Box would be compatible with the old one...

I want to play Halo 2 some day

interesting, but yeah, backwards compatability would be a boon to the whatever new console microsoft has planned. after all, that was a major selling point of the Ps2, neh?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Turnsky


interesting, but yeah, backwards compatability would be a boon to the whatever new console microsoft has planned. after all, that was a major selling point of the Ps2, neh?

Yeah, but - and this is an honest question - how many people actually played PS1 games once they had bought their PS2?

[Clave]

Me...

I played Colin McRae, until WRC came out....

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by aldo_14


Yeah, but - and this is an honest question - how many people actually played PS1 games once they had bought their PS2?

*glances at ff8*..
um... yeah..
even if people don't use it, it's still a good thing to have, so that people don't ***** about there being no backwards compatability..

[Gloriano]

Originally posted by aldo_14


Yeah, but - and this is an honest question - how many people actually played PS1 games once they had bought their PS2?

I'am still playing PS1 games like Chrono Cross,FF7,FF8, FF9

[01010]

Those Xbox2 screens are already confirmed fake. The new Elder Scrolls is looking badass though. Also, why bother with backwards compatibilty when you can just keep the old console? That's what I do.

[.:Firestorm:.]

I must be blunt.  Use ur brain

Xbox is essentially a PC, therefore it is very very likely, if Xbox 2 follows a similar approach, that it will be backward compatible with Xbox software.  

Of course, I have not been following console news at all, so if Microsoft has decided upon a vastly different approach of questionable compatibility then I am in err.

But if Xbox 2 is a specialized PC, then there could be no problem.  And never could be

[Gloriano]

Originally posted by .:Firestorm:.


But if Xbox 2 is a specialized PC, then there could be no problem.  And never could be

but there is proplem XBOX 1 use Nvidia and XBOX 2 has ATI R600 series card) so that is proplem they having in backward compatible


 
Ati X800pro is builded to R420 so that is proplem they having in backward compatible

[.:Firestorm:.]

still a rather doubtful premise.  Only problems would arise, in that case, from specific old generation nVidia tweaks.  This would be a problem only for purely console style built games i.e. extremely tailor made to the platform might have problems, but then most console games nowadays, my impression is, are multi-platform regardless.  

They were good enough to run on Xbox, they'll be good enough for Xbox 2, especially considering the case that they were already ported to vastly alien platforms in the PS2 and the GameCube

If the only relevant difference is an upgraded video card, rejoice.  xbox has the ultimate backward compatibility of all the consoles.  I always knew the Xbox line was the answer; that the path of the future lay in the convergence with computers.

Puahahahahaha

[Gloriano]

There is lot other proplems also, anyway some company is already doing backward compatibility program. Read news about it, maybe M$ uses that somehow.

and Xbox2 is more Power mac than normal PC because of CPU


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[kode]

I wish HIG made sense once in a while.

[aldo_14]

IIRC the X-box was to be based on multiple parallel processing, which AFAIK no desktop PC (be it IBM-stylee or Mac) uses.

[Deepblue]

Xbox 2 will be backwards compatible, all Xbox games will work on the Xbox 2. Speaking of Halo 2, while all you guys get to pay full price, I get to get it for (if they carry it) 25-30 dollars at the Msoft store. MUAHAHAHAHAHA.

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Deepblue
Xbox 2 will be backwards compatible, all Xbox games will work on the Xbox 2. Speaking of Halo 2, while all you guys get to pay full price, I get to get it for (if they carry it) 25-30 dollars at the Msoft store. MUAHAHAHAHAHA.

How do you know?

How do they solve the problem of having a completely different graphics core driving the whole thing?