Xbox 2 in motion (not what you think)

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Xbox 2 in motion
Someone who\'s seen an Xbox 2 game describes the wonder.
by Anoop Gantayat
March 1, 2005 - Final Fantasy father Hironobu Sakaguchi made a surprise announcement last week that his new development studio, Mistwalker, would be working with Microsoft on the development of two RPGs for the next-generation Xbox. Upon hearing the news, we immediately started imagining what we could expect from the new titles.


One individual far more privileged than team IGN Xbox was able to do more than just imagine. Sakaguchi gave Hirokazu Hamamura, president of Famitsu publisher Enterbrain and one of the most respected names in the Japanese videogame scene, a private first look at a video of the game in motion.
During a speech given at the Asia Online Game Conference 2005, Hamamura had this to say about the experience: "It\'s such a realistic video that with just one look you\'ll know that you\'re looking at a next-generation system. It\'s something that cannot be realized on today\'s machines."

Going into more details, Hamamura offered an example of what\'s possible on the next generation Xbox: "It\'s possible to show a camera outside the Earth\'s atmosphere approach a forest on the Earth\'s surface, then show leaves on a tree one at a time." Hamamura wasn\'t clear on if he\'d seen this specifically in the Mistwalker footage, or if he was just giving an example of his own.

Regardless, this is an exciting view of things to come. Hopefully, we\'ll get to see what impressed Hamamura so much as Microsoft gets set to unveil the Xbox successor.

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Let the hype train begin?

in other news, Hamamura recently bought an 800,000$ bentley and paid with cash.

Originally posted by mm
in other news, Hamamura recently bought an 800,000$ bentley and paid with cash.

wow really? was it fully loaded????

*insert rolleyes here*

Sounds pretty good, the hypetrain will not start until we see the video he saw...E3....

heh, the good ol\' xbox mantra

"wait till E3!"
"wait till E3!"

A lot of these things are conceivable given a 640x480 resolution and a next-gen video architecture.

Launch games should look at least as good as the PC\'s current best.

This story is a joke.  I\'m glad people here already know where hype and reality differ.

From what I\'ve read, Xbox should make all their games HD, with 1280x720 the minimum.  Sony doing the same.  Nintendo, bleh, Nintendo stopped supporting Component output on the Gamecube so who even knows?