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Comments on: A gaggle of new games for Xbox 360

Following debut of next-generation console, Microsoft announces game support from major publishers--and compatibility with old games.

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Where is the Phantom?
by sevanthson May 16, 2005 8:09 PM PDT
Yet another year of InfiniumLabs vapor... :)
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phantom is a rip off
by October 3, 2005 1:22 PM PDT
phantom is a rippoff designed to fatten the pricks pockets and not develope a product they never respond to emails i was a sucker and bought there stock i would be impressed if they could do what they claimed they could how stupid was i
No Wonder It's XBox 1.5 ...
by 201293546946733175101343322673 May 16, 2005 8:39 PM PDT
Nothing fancy for the software lineup, where is the innovation? Just pushing the graphic to the next level means nothing since the games are still shallow anyway :)
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The World is Flat.
by NWLB May 17, 2005 6:18 AM PDT
"Backward-compatibility is not the reason people buy a new system," said David Hufford, Microsoft Xbox group product manager.

Yeah, just like nobody cares about running older versions of software on the newest Windows system. Who'd ever want to do such a thing.

It isn't like people would want to use proven applications or beloved games on new OS' to such a degree that companies are forced to design them to allow it, or that more than a decade of CPU design winds up being tailored to allow for it.

Backward compatibility? What a joke! :)

Now how many combined titles will PS3 have if you add-up PS1 and PS2 titles?

MS will be in the game, and the titles will flow. Some thought Nintendo would never be dethroned but they were, soundly. It may be that getting introduction cycles offset by a year will help the industry more than hurt either it, MS, or Sony for the short run. But production costs will force game studios to pick sides more and more, and after awhile, that is going to effect the market greatly.

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All Mac Compatible
by 198775425444042216790779840523 May 17, 2005 6:44 AM PDT
The best part about this is that there all going to be on the Mac
platform..the 360 is being demoed on Apple G5s right now. It will
actually be more difficult to port these games to the PC because of
the platform they run on (basically G5 processors).
What does it say when Apple's biggest competitor uses Apple
hardware when they want the best.
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"the best"
by May 17, 2005 9:39 AM PDT
I think it has less to do with "the best", and more to do with the chips that IBM designed happen to closely resemble the G5 architecture.
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Xbox - PC - Ageia
by p_reviewer May 17, 2005 7:47 AM PDT
Hope the new Xbox will support or include Ageia hardware - so there is a way to standardize on games played on PCs and the new Xboxes - this would make it a better platform than PS3
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If XBOX 360 isn't backwards compatible --- bye, bye XBOX
by Stan Johnson May 19, 2005 12:58 PM PDT
If XBOX 360 isn't backwards compatible --- bye, bye XBOX

I refuse to repurchase old games for the XBOX 360. XBOX 360 had better be 100% backwards compatible or I will just move to the Play Station 3 and forget about XBOX all together
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