Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 line-up | The Register
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We observed back in July that the XBox 360 development schedules was going to put developers against the wall to hit a release date of Thanksgiving 2005. Well, data seems to be supporting this observation. The Register reports that
Microsoft said it would only confirm three titles for XBox 360's launch in Europe: Kameo: Elements of Power and Perfect Dark Zero by Rare, a UK-based games maker owned by Microsoft, and Project Gotham Racing 3 from the game studio Blizzard Creations. Now to be fair, there are other games that are nearing completion that are being held up by ratings reviewers, but it just shows the challenge of trying to launch a new platform on an aggressive schedule to beat out a competitor.
One more comment about the article. There appears to be a typo, since the article claims that the XBox 360 is powered by a three core 2 GHz processor, where the actual spec sheet says a triple core 3.2 GHz processor. If it isn't a typo, that's a big spec change, but one that is certainly imaginable given our speculated chip production issues the XBox faces on IBM's production line. The real question is whether anyone would notice if they dropped the spec, given that there is no real way to benchmark it.
We observed back in July that the XBox 360 development schedules was going to put developers against the wall to hit a release date of Thanksgiving 2005. Well, data seems to be supporting this observation. The Register reports that
Microsoft said it would only confirm three titles for XBox 360's launch in Europe: Kameo: Elements of Power and Perfect Dark Zero by Rare, a UK-based games maker owned by Microsoft, and Project Gotham Racing 3 from the game studio Blizzard Creations. Now to be fair, there are other games that are nearing completion that are being held up by ratings reviewers, but it just shows the challenge of trying to launch a new platform on an aggressive schedule to beat out a competitor.
One more comment about the article. There appears to be a typo, since the article claims that the XBox 360 is powered by a three core 2 GHz processor, where the actual spec sheet says a triple core 3.2 GHz processor. If it isn't a typo, that's a big spec change, but one that is certainly imaginable given our speculated chip production issues the XBox faces on IBM's production line. The real question is whether anyone would notice if they dropped the spec, given that there is no real way to benchmark it.
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