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- Lots of Xbox rumours around as Microsoft celebrate their Xbox division profitabilty by consolidating their market position. Here are some: “Microsoft seems to be slimming the system down to a ‘Wii-like’ size. (A Fat overweight Wii )
This model should have the CPU+GPU Combo Dye with the E-DRAM off to the side.
That’s all the information I have on that.
Now I’m not 100% sure on this so do not get hyped up, but speculated release is Late Winter 2008ish?
Side note, ATI/AMD has been working on a CPU/GPU Combo dye for sometime.
The Next Generation Xbox after the Xbox 360… thats expected to have a Blu-Ray Drive?, 1TB HDD, and a Quad-Core CPU.
Speculative Date is considered 2010~.” - Whilst we are on rumours here is the purported spec for the PSPhone:
- 4.3″ 16:9 widescreen TFT LCD display at 480 x 272 pixels and 16.77 million colors
- 2 megapixel camera
- Built-in web browser
- Built-in podcasting
- Flight mode
- Bluetooth
- Memory Stick Micro/microSD memory card slot
- Streaming audio/video
- Video calling
- Speakerphone
- Alarm clock, calculator, calendar, other PIM functions
- ELSPA (in the UK) grow cojones as they come out strongly in favour of the proven Europewide PEGI age classification and against the unwanted beaureaucratic BBFC alternative. Let’s hope the government listens to what the experienced professionals want and not to the empire building QANGO that is BBFC.
- Mod chips still illegal in the USA and the Feds are doing something about sorting the problem. Good on them, it is about time the UK government sorted the UK situation after the courts wimped out. I know that one in a hundred modchip owners has a legitimate excuse for using one. But still the other 99% of modchip users are only interested in stealing.
- Number of USA households with consoles increasing only very slowly. The vast majority of new machines are going into existing console households. Interesting this, mainly it tells us that the industry still has an immense amount of potential.
- Google Lively online world taps into major social networking sites. Ha, both Google’s involvement in virtual worlds and the integration of gaming and social networking have been covered on here a long time ago (apologies for the gloat). The first is a logical extension of Google’s capabilities the second is an inevitable result of human behaviour.
- British Channel 4 TV broadcaster moves into games. I am surprised this has taken so long. Television is a media in decline with lots of talent and masses of IP. Gaming, because of it’s innate advantages, is growing massively but is very short on IP and talent. A marriage made in heaven. When will the other TV channels grow up to reality?
- British government nervous on game industry tax breaks. This is like fiddling whilst Rome burns. The British game industry doesn’t even get the same treatment as it’s film industry despite being massively more economically important. But it is moving to Canada at some speed. So soon there will be nothing left to give tax breaks to, just ask the French about what happened to their game development industry.
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“I know that one in a hundred modchip owners has a legitimate excuse for using one. But still the other 99% of modchip users are only interested in stealing.”
Yeah, because I’m sure that you went and completed an study, and asked everyone with a modchip what were they using it for, right?.
Homebrew is bigger than you think, and many people install them just to play games from other regions.
Oh, and once again, “pirating” is not stealing. Not that I’m defending it, but let’s talk properly.
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Yeah Bruce – you are starting to sound like Daily Mail writer now. Lets keep it factual. Don’t use figures that are guesses. And lets be precise on terms. There is no stealing involved in copying a game, no more then its funding terrorism. I work in the industry and have a vested interest in seeing this stamped out, but to me copyright violation is a lesser evil then misinforming the public (I’m looking at you, F.A.C.T.).
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Being precise, stealing means theft and IP theft is well established in the English language. Just type IP theft into Google and you get things like: http://www.wordspy.com/words/IPtheft.asp
So if you download an unpaid for MP3 then you are a thief. Stealing is when you don’t pay someone for their work. Whether that work is something physical or IP doesn’t matter.
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I’d be surprised if the next generation of X360 was that under powered – here is a better guesstimate.
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Bruce – getting a result from typing two words into google isn’t conclusive evidence of anything I’m afraid. In the UK theft is : “dishonest appropriation of property belonging to another with the intent to permanently deprive” – so legally copyright is *not* theft, and hence why it isn’t ever prosecuted as such. I like your blog Bruce, but please, you can only hold the high ground so long as you remain accurate. Stealing is not when you don’t pay someone for their work, nor is downloading an MP3 you didn’t pay for. You may wish it otherwise, both activities may be illegal, however theft it ain’t.