Preorder a XBOX360 with DOA4? Prepare for dissapointment.

Has anybody seen the Denzel Washington version of The Manchurian Candidate? Pay close attention to the news banner in certain scenes..

I can\'t remember exactly what it says, but something to the effect of "Wal-Mart posts revenues of 6 trillion dollars". Given that the movie takes place in a few years, they might not be far off.

what matters today:
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Are these numbers the value of their shares?

it\'s the number of stupid questions that have been asked this week on psx2central.com forums

[Paul2]

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Please, tell me where you pull this \'fact\' up from. Other than, your ass, of course.

Well, I thought Bill Gates is the richest guy himself, so I assumed his company must be the richest company and can lose more money per console sold than any other company...

You\'re not totally off base Paul.  While Sony is definitely a larger company with more assets, MS makes 8 times as much profit, according to those old charts mm posted anyway.

Looks like Sony makes the bulk of its money from electronics, physical products which you have to make over & over again with expensive raw materials.  MS is in the business of software, something that can be copied over & over inexpensively. Em Dollar-Sign has more cash money on-hand to throw away and invest.

And for the record, I thought the Sultan of Brunei was the richest guy in the world.

Heh, number 6 on the list is a single male -  Ingvar Kamprad - at 23 Billion, all from Ikea.  Saddle up ladies... and racer (sorry guy).

M$ CAN afford to take a hit on consoles, and I\'m sure they\'re going to start as soon as the PS3 is released.  Why do it now, when they can do it later in order to help take Sony\'s sales away, boost their own sales, and they\'ll probably lower the price again with the HD-DVD version release, to try and get some market share for their format.

MM all you do is ride on sony nut sack. These console wars are getting real stupid. Especially how far we have come and you still dick ride.

omg, you said you wouldn\'t tell anyone!

Originally posted by FatalXception
Heh, number 6 on the list is a single male -  Ingvar Kamprad - at 23 Billion, all from Ikea.  Saddle up ladies... and racer (sorry guy).

M$ CAN afford to take a hit on consoles, and I\'m sure they\'re going to start as soon as the PS3 is released.  Why do it now, when they can do it later in order to help take Sony\'s sales away, boost their own sales, and they\'ll probably lower the price again with the HD-DVD version release, to try and get some market share for their format.

So with other words they are going to skrew the early XBOX360 owners forcing them to buy the HD-DVD version if they want that feature??

Originally posted by mm
it\'s the number of stupid questions that have been asked this week on psx2central.com forums

Can you please be more informative?

[Paul2]

makes me wonder if some of the future XBOX360 games were in HD-DVD format, how are you going to play it current XBOX360 console?

just have to rebuy another one

[insert owned picture here]

all 360 games will be in DVD format. If 360 "ever" includes an hd-dvd it\'s purpose will be only for watching movies.

Someone earlier asked why M$ didn\'t add a HD-DVD drive, simple at the time of 360\'s Production HD-DVD was not finalized yet, nor was the tools and production ready. In other words M$ can\'t add HD-dvd when it\'s not ready.

Man the thing is released in a few days and there isnt much fuss about it or any mindblowing news.

It really doesnt feel like the old exciting days when gaming shifted to the next gen.

And the same goes with the PS3.Not much difference.Next gen gaming mostly feels like an upgraded PC in a boxJust minor improvements on graphics.No difference at gameplay at all

Bleh

What have you been smoking Uni ?

It will be the end of the world if ever a console launch will appear which actually stomps current high end pc gaming.

I can argument becuz i have been in Xbox360 game development the past 3 months ; developers didn\'t have time on their side for 1st gen Xbox360 games.

The real next gen power will show with games like :

- Gears of War
- Alan Wake
- Xbox360 Oblivion
- Sega\'s new Afterburner
- NBA 2K06
- etc !

(watch latest trailers of respective games to get a clue...ow wait... you still on dial up modem ? ....ugh)

Like I have been saying all along ; Xbox360 launches very very early. Maybe a bit too early for it\'s own good.

But ! We do know that upcoming games will be optimized for true next gen hardware which\'s performance and features even 3000 Euro pc hardware cannot touch.

For example (quote) ; "I believe it\'s because to get AA for "free" by rendering the scene in the console\'s DRAM, the engine has to support tiled rendering. Apperently none of the launch games were made to take advantage of this feature, and so they simply left AA off (or in the case of PGR3, lowered the resolution slightly so that they could use AA and get the image to fit into the DRAM). I\'m guessing all of the post-launch games will have tiling, since the DRAM wasn\'t availible to developers until the final version of the kit was availible, and 2 months isn\'t much time to rebuild an engine to support tiling (which apperently is much easier to build into an engine if you plan for it from the begining instead of adding it on later)."

So... there you have it. The 2nd batch of Xbox360 will impress alot more.

If Sony\'s smart, they won\'t rush the PS3. After Wanda & the Colossus and MGS3 Substinence PAL releases, then it\'s time to start writing off that PStwo.

But really, I know the true next gen graphics WILL impress.