J Allard chat transcript

[cka]

You can get an $18 802.11b access point that'll do the same job; I suggest that route instead.

assuming you don't need that xenon chip in the wifi adapter which you probably will

[kedawa]

assuming you don't need that xenon chip in the wifi adapter which you probably will

You can connect whatever you like to the ethernet port.

[TobalRox]

Just the number of people who bought it in large part because it was a DVD player. Same with PSP - a huge % of its software sales are UMD movies.

People could just buy a portable DVD player for a fraction of that price. UMD sales are up because they aren't releasing any GAMES for it, so people want to warrent their $250 purchase.

How can you not have an HDD ready, and know that a year in advance? It's not like it's an exotic component to manufacture, unless it really does have super-secret photo aging metaphysical technology inside.

Just going by what I read. It sounded odd to me too, but basically they made it sound like they wanted to work out support for it first, so that they didn't release it and have nothing use it right away.


I agree that the lack of wireless out of the box is lame since the other two have it, but it doesn't affect me at all, so I'm not as bothered as everyone else. I have my xbox wired, so I'm just gonna take the cable out the back of it, and put it in my 360.

[1CCOSA]

PlayStation also has the best name of all the systems.

Xbox is a stupid name, everyone knows this.

Pffft. Genesis will always be the best system name.

[cka]

You can connect whatever you like to the ethernet port.

we'll see!

[Dyne]

"Originally Posted by StriderKyo
Developers (well okay, Itagaki, but I'm sure he's not alone) have already said they're coming close filling up DVDs on 360. Hi-def CG + HD graphics + lots of voice + 3 megs of XB 360 security features = that 9 meg DVD gets filled up real fast. Blu Ray has 45 megs. That'll accomodate any next gen Final Fantasy, MGS or GTA quite nicely. And don't sell the "only good for movies" part short - Hollywood pushed PS2 with DVD, and it's carried PSP. The advantages of Blu Ray are obvious - if they can convince consumers to eat the extra $10 it takes to manufacture them in the beginning, there's no reason it won't become standard. Heck, there's no reason PS3 won't make it the de facto standard - it'll probably have more marketing behind it than HD-DVD will."



gigs my friend....GIGS. and blu ray can hold a helluva lot more than 45.

[TobalRox]

gigs my friend....GIGS. and blu ray can hold a helluva lot more than 45.

I already corrected him on this But to clarifiy, it's 200 GIGS for Blu-Ray, 25 Gigs for each layer, and they can have up to 8 layers. Not sure the capacity for HD-DVD though.

[Space Pirate Roberts]

If we're going to be seeing movies with 8 layers, they'd damn well better fix the layer change pause issue. (Though now that I think of it... even with HD and no compression, what could possibly use 200 gigs? All three LotR EE's on one disc?)

[StriderKyo]

Hi-def CG + HD graphics + lots of voice + 3 megs of XB 360 security features = that 9 meg DVD gets filled up real fast. Blu Ray has 45 megs.

Gigs you idiot, GIGS! And Blu Ray can hold more than 45!

[Bacon McShig]

If we're going to be seeing movies with 8 layers, they'd damn well better fix the layer change pause issue. (Though now that I think of it... even with HD and no compression, what could possibly use 200 gigs? All three LotR EE's on one disc?)

That'd rock. Entire seasons of TV shows on one disc would be pretty hot as well.