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- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -9/+47don't you have a PS3 pre-order to make?
- bprice25, on 10/12/2007, -7/+27Because Xbox Live and the 360 OS is probably about the best software MS has ever developed, much better than XP.
- mkjones, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Excelent news, now lets pray they get Vista out sometime soon :)
- interiot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Buy a game on one device, and be able to download and play the same game on other devices, without having to pay again? It doesn't take a genius to know that's a good idea, but it's good a company is actually promoting such a concept.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14***** Believable, gaming bliss is almost around the corner! if they could integrate this to make it so cross platform multiplayer becomes a reality, I would have to orgasm. Xbox Live users vs. PC Live users. That would make for one hell of a match.
- DeathSun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Hi, and welcome to 1995. Enjoy your visit.
While you're in the tired jokes archive, please be sure to take a moment and relax with some handy OJ Simpson jokes told to you by Jay Leno. Yakov Smirnoff will be by shortly to take your drink orders. - jon61575, on 10/12/2007, -12/+21Macs work with the 360. I stream music from my Mac to the 360.
http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360 - sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Except I don't think that's the concept they're promoting. You're NOT going to be able to buy an XBOX 360 game and then play the same game on your PC without buying the PC version.
- anamanaman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I think a lot of PC game development companies will jump at the opportunity to utilize XboxLive for their multiplayer and save a fair amount of implementation. They'd get the xbox gamertag, gamerscore, and friends functionality for free. I just hope microsoft prices it reasonably for developers to get onboard. I think they are eager for this to work so they'll make it cheap (or free) to developers to integrate. The down side is gamers might have to subscribe to xbox live to get all the features.
- snoozzell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10the main benefit of live is the persistence between play sessions you get when you have a persistent gamertag attached.
With counter strike on the pc who cares how many times you die. If you have a record that is specific to you and ranks you worldwide, it makes the competition that much more fun.
Not to mention that it will enable intelligent matchmaking on the PC for the first time ever. This way you don't have the fools who can't figure out how to reload or the pros who don't let you get a shot off. Everyone gets to play in a competative game. - IQ70, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16You beat me to the submission. This is huge!
Ability to continue games from computer, xbox or phone using one nametag. - rileyjt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10It will be interesting to see if they can pull this off. I am extremely doubtful about the cellphones - so many proprietary systems. I think Vista will offer a lot of new integration posibilities though and the Xbox mobile device in a couple years should work well with the system.
- mattb19us, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Actually they showed the ability to cross platform game.
3:53 pm - Shadowrun demo: "Avenger" starts up Shadowrun and pulls up his friends list. He can see his friends connected to their mobile phones, computers, and so on. Avenger sends an invite to his friend "Major Nelson." Switch video feeds to Major Nelson. We see the invite pop up on Windows Vista, almost like an email notification popup. Major Nelson then compares profiles (insert slick, transparent UI here!) and decides to jump into Shadowrun with his buddy Avenger. Now get this: one of them's using the Xbox 360, one's using a Windows Vista PC. Finally, we will settle the ages-old debate about which control mechanism (mouse & keyboard or console controller) is superior for FPS control. - prab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If you don't need the power brick.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah um cause all of us have $1350 right in our pockets for games you know. Who needs food and gas? Pft. Not me.
[Assuming Ps3 = 600$, Xbox 360 = 400$, Wii = $250]
I think Microsoft might just have an upperhand with this Live thing. - Dabellah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I'm sure it's trusted content only rasterbator. Calling someone loser in the first sentence of your comment just gives you away.
The way the content would work is streaming the game, not anything else unless otherwise specified. If you are anyway near a half-decent computer user, you'll never get infected anyways even if someone does find some work around. I've never been infected, and I never will be. Oh, and another thing - I don't run anti-spyware or anti-virus programs. It's all about what you do your pr0n IE browsing n00b. - Brhine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@philgmo: The XNA development platform allows a game developed in it to be compiled to both XBox 360 and Windows PC from the same source code. An Oragami game would probably be a mostly different code base with different features suitable for the platform, same with phones.
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8because you can't take your Xbox on the bus can you
- wistar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7As announced the mobile gaming initiative spans Windows Mobile, Java and BREW handsets.
- Aleman360, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Makes you wonder if those guys who sold Xfire for millions recently had caught wind of this earlier...
- mkjones, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7I would assume Windows Mobile will be the only systems that can use this system so it should be possible.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think this system would work best for those tedious games like World of Warcraft where you are spending hours on end killing rats for gold. Ya I can see people doing that during their lunch breaks or on their commute to school while on the subway or bus.
- Dogtown7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3there's so much vitriol between console fanboys it's hard to get anything useful from these posts. Ok, here is an unbiased breakdown of where the consoles stand:
PS3: Bad
360: Medium
Wii: Good - Flankk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"gaming bliss is almost around the corner! if they could integrate this to make it so cross platform multiplayer becomes a reality, I would have to orgasm. Xbox Live users vs. PC Live users. That would make for one hell of a match."
Assuming you're prepared to pay for a Live subscription on your PC, and all your devices. Microsoft always wanted their own proprietary network. Once Windows, Xbox, MSN Messenger and Windows Mobile are all synergistic on the entirely proprietary Microsoft Network, who needs the internet? - adizzy615, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Think xbox live arcade games.
- IQ70, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Thats exactly what BIll said. Finally we can decide which control is better, keyboard or the console controller.
- GuyNextDoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The truth lies somewhere in between. You actually are the host on games you play over live, but MS does indeed have a vast network of servers that deliver content, regulate connections, provide information gateways, store information for synchronized content access, and more. This is not a central server farm that hosts game rooms, aka World Of Warcraft, although there is discussion about how an MMORPG game would work if the developer wanted to interface a server farm with the XBL server system.
But seriously, the thing only costs 50 bucks a year...cheap as hell if you ask me...I pay more for useless things like an internet fax service that costs me 120 bucks a year. So yeah, PC gaming has provided "online for free" in certain games for years (I'm a long time counter-strike fan), but nothing quite as well implemented as XBL has been (not even close really). - JFetch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Your completely wrong about how Live works. You connect to their servers, you don't host a game as a server. Live has central servers that do everything for you. It's nothing like PC multiplayer. Thousands of people are connected at the same time, like an MMORPG.
- Griffology, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The part I enjoyed about the new 'live' service is I can buy content once and use it across all platforms seamlessly.
- FreeCajunLove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11 month earlier than the PS3's release and exclusive content. Sounds just as good
- dpk87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But their are already systems out their that do just that, and dont require people to pay subscriptions. I.E. GameSpy, Microsoft Zone, Battle.Net and more.
- dWhisper, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7So, essentially... they're finally realizing the original vision they had with Passport, interlopability between varrying devices and operating systems. Of course, it's been retooled with a specific purpose, but that's what Bill originally laid out for the software (you know, after Wallet crashed).
It's a good idea, but I wonder about execution for 3rd party developers. For smaller and niche titles, it could be huge, and for Microsoft, it will be native. But for big companies, like EA, there's not as much benefit to this.
Plus, to a point, hasn't Nintendo already scratched the surface on this with the GBA+GC and DS+Wii connectivity? - ByteGuerilla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Whilst I agree with your sentiments about people thinking graphics make a game, I disagree with your assertion that the Xbox and the 360 are just glorified PCs.
"Look at it: Intel processor, its own OS, hard drive, etc." By that logic, we can call jet fighters sporting Rolls Royce engines cars can we? The hard drive is because people want storage. Memory cards just stopped cutting it last generation. Yes, I do want to put my music on my Xbox. Yes, I want to go minigunning in GRAW to Prodigy or something deathly. Yes, I need a hard drive to do that. So what do you do when you need to communicate between network ports, storage devices, and the core of a machine? You put an OS in. Everything has a ***** OS these days. My digital camera has an OS... doesn't make it a PC though. - bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seriously how is no one talking about grand theft auto 4? i mean that is worth an xbox 360 alone
- mpancha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I loved the Halo 3 screenshots on that link. Now I want an XBox 360 just for that game.... I'm sure I'll enjoy it with other games afterwards, but Halo 3 is what I'm waiting for.
- saska, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4@ rasterbator.. Clearly, all six Microsoft employees are currently busy working on XBox Live.
Nothing exposes a person who's spent their entire career in tiny open source projects more quickly than their assumption a company can only do one project at a time. - JFetch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They never said it was exclusive. They just said it was coming to the 360.
- FreeCajunLove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I read the date wrong. Boo me
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Because, I believe Rockstar just corrected Moore by saying that the release for Grand theft Auto 4 is simultaneous on both the Xbox 360 and the Ps3, the only difference with the xbox 360 version is the episodic content, Which is awesome. If you go to
http://rockstargames.com/grandtheftauto4/
You can see that it says Available Oct 16th, and has both the 360 and the Ps2 and Ps3 Listed at the bottom thus it is not exclusive. - eclipseCDN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think XBL is the cream of the crop when it comes to multiplayer gamming. I think you get your moneys worth out of it should you use all it's features. BUt that said, you can still do a TONNE for free with it. MS has the best press conf BTW. Way to go guys... MS and Wii 1 each, sony ... 0
- philgmo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6Even if the Origami thing is the only portable platform this will support, this still seems pretty crazy. Is the API of the 360 written well enough that a game designed for the 360 could possibly be ported to a Vista machine or an Origami and run in a manner scaled down to the platform?
- aniseed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Um, latest generation of Xbox uses IBM's CPU and ATI's GPU. Guess what other console used IBM+ATI?
Nintendo GameCube.
Maybe that's a PC too then? - aniseed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's actually bull. You don't need the live starter kit to join live. If you have a game that does live, all you need to do is try to use the live functions and the console will update itself to joining. Then just add your info and creditcardnumber, and you're set without any purchase. You'll have to pay for the first month tho, starter-kits come with a few months prepaid (that's why they cost something.)
- dan4prez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Is there any way to stream music from Windows XP to my Xbox 360 without using Windows Media Connect? WMC causes my computer to crash.
- IQ70, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Vista will ship after the Holiday season. MSFT delayed Vista because it didnt want Dell being favored over other PC makers which have traditionally been slower.
- captainjy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6After reading this, reading that MS will have sold over 5 million units by next month, and after reading the Sony release on the PS3, MS is more than poised to win not only this round, but perhaps the entire console war. If rumors hold true and MS does get a simultaneous release of GTA, the 360 is THE console. This is freaking great news!
- shoguning, on 10/12/2007, -11/+9The PC player would win every time. Mouse beats joystick easy. Just sayin'
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4This is great for PC gaming but probably won't effect the console wars much. I definitely want to see some Live features on modern PC games.
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