XBox 2 may be compatable with PC

[Starbucks]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18204

Microsoft to create Xbox-PC joint code base

Longhorn shoehorn?


By Fuad Abazovic in Londinium: Wednesday 01 September 2004, 15:59

MICROSOFT TOLD me today at the ECTS show in London's Earls Court that it is preparing plans to make a common code base for PC games and for the Xbox, a shift from its past strategy.
Whether this means that the Xbox II and future PCs will use the same code base is still unclear, however.

Microsoft, with the first iteration of its Xbox machine, made things so that it could sell different products on its hardware, although the usual protests were heard that it was just attempting to milk consumers.

It appears that Microsoft has listened to such plaints, and is considering a different direction in the future.

Don't ever forget that the firm was developing products for 64-bit chips long before AMD and Intel got round to creating such things. µ

[dylman]

I'd have thought it would be more important for Xbox2 to be compatible with Xbox1, but what do I know?

Well, that would shoot the old rumor about it being based on a G5 out of the window. It might have been already. I wouldn't know; I really don't follow XBox stuff too well.

[Vie]

Originally posted by Starbucks [From the inquirer]
[B]Don't ever forget that the firm was developing products for 64-bit chips long before AMD and Intel got round to creating such things.

And? back in the 80's Acorn made dule processor tecnology, and not as a built in feature, but as a later plugin addon.

[Mr Jones]

Wouldn't making an XBox compatible with a PC technically make it a PC in Xbox clothing?

[Omega X]

Originally posted by toejam07
Well, that would shoot the old rumor about it being based on a G5 out of the window. It might have been already. I wouldn't know; I really don't follow XBox stuff too well.

YES! I read that somewhere. It had something to so with how marginal Nintendo came to having X-Box graphics at half the cost. So they said that the X-Box2 was supposed to have an IBM processor and ATI graphics like Nintendo does with the Gamecube now. Nintendo said that they will continue further development with IBM and ATI in "Revolution".

If they do this, it can possibly shut out Sony since developing for both "Revolution" and Xbox2 will be even less of a pain.

BUT I thought that the "XNA" code platform was going to allow developers to make their games compatible between the Xbox2 and the PC??

[capitan3]

Are there are a couple of leaked pics of what xbox 2 might lool like. plus sources said it will come with an update of halo 2













Which is the more realistic one?

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by capitan3
Are there are a couple of leaked pics of what xbox 2 might lool like. plus sources said it will come with an update of halo 2


Which is the more realistic one?

This one.

[capitan3]

typical

[Too-DAMN-Much]

cool, now when i say "what's an xbox?" maybe people will eventually say "who knows? i play my games on the comp"

[whiteflip]

Ive read so much shit about XBoX2 (Xenon) that it really is all just blah. It may be G5 it may not. Even if it is Microsoft bought a Mac emulation company and they could just emulate the Xbox 1 on the Xbox 2 with software.

Current Xbox2 dev kits are G5 PC's with a gig of RAM and some high end Ati Card. These macs run windows though. XBox2 is supposedly going to have 256mb of ram and 10mb of high speed video ram.

That aside, I've heard possibilities of multiple versions of an XBoX2, one with out a HDD, one with, and one thats like a PC+Tivo.

I'll call some microsoft bitches I know in the XBoX department and bitch to them about making that shit backwards compatible and bitch about them some more for not getting my new contact info for more product testing. Seriously its been forever since I picked out which crappy cover will go on which crappy microsoft game.