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[Grifter_7]

NVIDIA tech licensed for Xbox 360 backward compatibility
This news was already posted about 10days ago, but it has now also been confirmed.
From GamesIndustry.biz:

[atdt1991]

May I be the first to suggest that once the 360 comes out, we attempt what I may call the "ironman tournament" or "where the hell is the grenade button?"

What I mean is that we should play Halo on the 360 using the DVD controller, which obviously corresponds to the controller itself. Only problem i see, perhaps, is only having one axis. *chuckle*

Then again, that'd be twice the fun! "look at me when I'm hitting you!"

[INCyr]

[water10]

A new article from Anandtech, comparing X360 and PS3.

It doesn't really say anything new, but it's a good article to read. It's interesting to see how MS took a more conservative path on the CPU side, with 3 PPC cores vs Cell design, but on the other hand, it's much more innovative on the GPU side, with the unified shader architecture vs a PC-esque Nvidia GPU.

But, if you look closely, it's clear that X360 is much more flexible! 3 general cores against 1PPE and 7 highly specialized SPEs, and 48 unified shaders that can go from pixel to vertex shaders vs conventional vertex/pixel shaders.

The big picture is that there's no clear winner on the hardware side. With the X360 coming before the PS3, MS couldn't be in a better position! It all depends on how successful Sony can market their console as being more powerful! Right now, I'd say they are doing a good job and the average consumer (that WILL be key to the console war!) does believe PS3 is a lot more powerful! And since it's coming later, people expect it to be more powerful, just like the Xbox was more powerful than the PS2. Let's see how people (and gaming sites) react when the PS3 gets released and they see games are very similar to the 360 games!

It's somewhat disappointing that first games on 360 will be mostly single-threaded. I think there'll be a bigger difference between the first wave of games and second/third gen games than on this current console generation, specially for the PS3.

[water10]

Where are you, Grifter? Well, since he's not around, here's another link about PGR3 updates. It has a VERY impressive in-game screenshot! It's a chinese restaurant in NYC. Compare the photo of the real restaurant to the in-game screenshot! The amount of details is just amazing!!

And before people start to accuse Bizarre of pulling a Killzone, they confirmed on the forums that it's a real in-game screenshot! Here are some quotes from the devs:

[atdt1991]

That probably depends on whether you can use the dvd remote and the controller at the same time. If so, plug the headset into the controller, but use the dvd remote.

[thunderclap8]

[water10]

Here's another impressive update from Bizarre! Another great looking NYC picture! It's almost photo-realistic ...

[kaber]

With the announcement that Microsoft is partnering with Toshiba to develop HD DVD players, I was wondering if anyone knew if this would impact the 360? At E3, M$ said they were waiting to see which technology developed before determining what they would put in a future 360. It seems like they have made their decision and hopefully they will incorporate an HD DVD drive with original 360s. If so, another selling point for me to pony up with the $$$.

[water10]

New Anandtech article!

Pretty strong statements!! Some quotes:

[ubersaurus]

I'm not particularly surprised by the performance lying-every company pulls that sort of thing.

Hilariously, this time around it looks like Nintendo is the one aiming to make the easy-to-develop for platform. Assuming the controller isn't too weird, that is.

[SuperJerms]

[Anton P. Nym]

[rufo]