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Originally posted by Brad View PostSega fans: Mark Subotnik interview on The Retro Hour has an amazing reveal of an absolute dick move by Yuji Naka. Whole interview very good but Subotnik is known to be quite outspoken and this nugget was awesome I thought.
Just listened to it and Mark was fantastic in it. If true, Yuji comes across as a monumental cock in that. I love how open the industry is now to telling stories now enough time has passed. Stories like that, that's so small but so significant, inform so much of someone or the power they yield.
I presume others have done simular and far worse too.
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Originally posted by Cassius_Smoke View PostMaybe this is why GP is being pushed by MS...there are no working 360s in the wild to play.
Microsoft have an advantage here because of the the Xbox's somewhat unremarkable hardware ethos; the original Xbox was a specialised PC, and all the subsequent machines have followed suit (I mean it was conceived as "the DirectXbox", i.e. an all-in-one machine to run DirectX media software). That means backwards compatability for them is just easier than it is for the other manufacturers.
Similarly, it's probably why one of the levels on Sonic Generations was Crisis City - a level from Sonic '06, the worst game of the franchise - there are better games to choose from, but that was one people could still buy.
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Originally posted by Asura View PostThis kind of thing can be a motivator.
Microsoft have an advantage here because of the the Xbox's somewhat unremarkable hardware ethos; the original Xbox was a specialised PC, and all the subsequent machines have followed suit (I mean it was conceived as "the DirectXbox", i.e. an all-in-one machine to run DirectX media software). That means backwards compatability for them is just easier than it is for the other manufacturers.
Similarly, it's probably why one of the levels on Sonic Generations was Crisis City - a level from Sonic '06, the worst game of the franchise - there are better games to choose from, but that was one people could still buy.
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Originally posted by Brad View PostThe 360 had a PowerPC chip in it. They've had to do some work to get the very next gen of their hardware to play powerpc games. Kudos to them.
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Originally posted by Brad View PostOh I thought you were saying they started off with basically a pc and kept
It that way.
I think it's pretty fair to say it's easier for a modern machine to run Xbox games than PS2, and it's because the Xbox is conceptually closer, hardware-wise, to a gaming PC than the PS2 was.
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Originally posted by fuse View PostI'd be more inclined to laugh if the bloody things weren't still region locked. The Japanese 360 library is filled with gold, but it's going to be an ever-growing pain in the ass trying to maintain hardware to play them.
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