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Two major game console releases, the Microsoft Xbox and the Nintendo Gamecube, are scheduled to ship in time for the 2001 holiday season. Not long ago, it would have been hard to imagine that these two companies would be able to release these machines at the same time. Nintendo displayed a working prototype of the Gamecube as early as August 2000, and Microsoft didn't offer a peek at the Xbox until early January 2001.
The Nintendo Gamecube will be a step toward the company's goal of creating the ultimate hardware for playing games. The system will run on something like a 405-MHz IBM PowerPC, and performance figures released by Nintendo indicate that the Gamecube will be the fastest console on the market when it is released (hundreds of millions of polygons per second versus today's tens of millions). The Gamecube will have expansion slots for more memory and a modem/broadband adapter. You'll also be able to use the next-generation Game Boy Advance as a controller with a personal viewing screen. Unfortunately, the Gamecube will not be backward compatible with the Nintendo 64, nor will it play DVDs.
The Microsoft Xbox essentially will be an inexpensive PC that can be connected to a TV. Preliminary specs call for an Intel CPU in excess of 1 GHz, a 300-MHz nVidia graphics chip, 64MB of RAM, a DVD drive, an 8GB hard drive, and Ethernet. The Xbox looks great on paper, with proposed performance far exceeding anything currently available in game consoles.
Microsoft claims that software can be developed rapidly and easily for the Xbox, since it's actually a specialized PC. But even with nVidia on board, developing graphics for NTSC (TV) will be more difficult than for VGA. Besides, one of the benefits of gaming on a PC is that hardware can be upgraded. That isn't the case, of course, once the technology is frozen into a console.
I've followed both of these projects deeply through their production stages, and I for one am excited in terms of the future of gaming. What do you guys think? Am I just hyping these two machines way to excessively? Is ny optimism just wishful thinking? One thing is for sure, I'll be the first to place down my deposit when Special Reserve give us information on their first batches.
Jason Bagnall
UK, Birmingham
The Nintendo Gamecube will be a step toward the company's goal of creating the ultimate hardware for playing games. The system will run on something like a 405-MHz IBM PowerPC, and performance figures released by Nintendo indicate that the Gamecube will be the fastest console on the market when it is released (hundreds of millions of polygons per second versus today's tens of millions). The Gamecube will have expansion slots for more memory and a modem/broadband adapter. You'll also be able to use the next-generation Game Boy Advance as a controller with a personal viewing screen. Unfortunately, the Gamecube will not be backward compatible with the Nintendo 64, nor will it play DVDs.
The Microsoft Xbox essentially will be an inexpensive PC that can be connected to a TV. Preliminary specs call for an Intel CPU in excess of 1 GHz, a 300-MHz nVidia graphics chip, 64MB of RAM, a DVD drive, an 8GB hard drive, and Ethernet. The Xbox looks great on paper, with proposed performance far exceeding anything currently available in game consoles.
Microsoft claims that software can be developed rapidly and easily for the Xbox, since it's actually a specialized PC. But even with nVidia on board, developing graphics for NTSC (TV) will be more difficult than for VGA. Besides, one of the benefits of gaming on a PC is that hardware can be upgraded. That isn't the case, of course, once the technology is frozen into a console.
I've followed both of these projects deeply through their production stages, and I for one am excited in terms of the future of gaming. What do you guys think? Am I just hyping these two machines way to excessively? Is ny optimism just wishful thinking? One thing is for sure, I'll be the first to place down my deposit when Special Reserve give us information on their first batches.
Jason Bagnall
UK, Birmingham
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I think it's called 'taking' your 'information' from other sources without checking it first.
If you know what I mean.
If you know what I mean.
I wanna GC now!!
MolineuxGuy wrote:
> Gamecube, are scheduled to ship in time for the 2001 holiday season.
Holiday season? in time for Christmas 2001? ... Are you American?
...
This is a joke... right???
:)
> Gamecube, are scheduled to ship in time for the 2001 holiday season.
Holiday season? in time for Christmas 2001? ... Are you American?
...
This is a joke... right???
:)
Especially for Nintendo!!
Expect deleys.
Lots of deleys :-)
Lots of deleys :-)
Two major game console releases, the Microsoft Xbox and the Nintendo Gamecube, are scheduled to ship in time for the 2001 holiday season. Not long ago, it would have been hard to imagine that these two companies would be able to release these machines at the same time. Nintendo displayed a working prototype of the Gamecube as early as August 2000, and Microsoft didn't offer a peek at the Xbox until early January 2001.
The Nintendo Gamecube will be a step toward the company's goal of creating the ultimate hardware for playing games. The system will run on something like a 405-MHz IBM PowerPC, and performance figures released by Nintendo indicate that the Gamecube will be the fastest console on the market when it is released (hundreds of millions of polygons per second versus today's tens of millions). The Gamecube will have expansion slots for more memory and a modem/broadband adapter. You'll also be able to use the next-generation Game Boy Advance as a controller with a personal viewing screen. Unfortunately, the Gamecube will not be backward compatible with the Nintendo 64, nor will it play DVDs.
The Microsoft Xbox essentially will be an inexpensive PC that can be connected to a TV. Preliminary specs call for an Intel CPU in excess of 1 GHz, a 300-MHz nVidia graphics chip, 64MB of RAM, a DVD drive, an 8GB hard drive, and Ethernet. The Xbox looks great on paper, with proposed performance far exceeding anything currently available in game consoles.
Microsoft claims that software can be developed rapidly and easily for the Xbox, since it's actually a specialized PC. But even with nVidia on board, developing graphics for NTSC (TV) will be more difficult than for VGA. Besides, one of the benefits of gaming on a PC is that hardware can be upgraded. That isn't the case, of course, once the technology is frozen into a console.
I've followed both of these projects deeply through their production stages, and I for one am excited in terms of the future of gaming. What do you guys think? Am I just hyping these two machines way to excessively? Is ny optimism just wishful thinking? One thing is for sure, I'll be the first to place down my deposit when Special Reserve give us information on their first batches.
Jason Bagnall
UK, Birmingham
The Nintendo Gamecube will be a step toward the company's goal of creating the ultimate hardware for playing games. The system will run on something like a 405-MHz IBM PowerPC, and performance figures released by Nintendo indicate that the Gamecube will be the fastest console on the market when it is released (hundreds of millions of polygons per second versus today's tens of millions). The Gamecube will have expansion slots for more memory and a modem/broadband adapter. You'll also be able to use the next-generation Game Boy Advance as a controller with a personal viewing screen. Unfortunately, the Gamecube will not be backward compatible with the Nintendo 64, nor will it play DVDs.
The Microsoft Xbox essentially will be an inexpensive PC that can be connected to a TV. Preliminary specs call for an Intel CPU in excess of 1 GHz, a 300-MHz nVidia graphics chip, 64MB of RAM, a DVD drive, an 8GB hard drive, and Ethernet. The Xbox looks great on paper, with proposed performance far exceeding anything currently available in game consoles.
Microsoft claims that software can be developed rapidly and easily for the Xbox, since it's actually a specialized PC. But even with nVidia on board, developing graphics for NTSC (TV) will be more difficult than for VGA. Besides, one of the benefits of gaming on a PC is that hardware can be upgraded. That isn't the case, of course, once the technology is frozen into a console.
I've followed both of these projects deeply through their production stages, and I for one am excited in terms of the future of gaming. What do you guys think? Am I just hyping these two machines way to excessively? Is ny optimism just wishful thinking? One thing is for sure, I'll be the first to place down my deposit when Special Reserve give us information on their first batches.
Jason Bagnall
UK, Birmingham
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