SAN JOSE, Calif. - Microsoft Corp. will take a phased approach to updating its Xbox 360 videogame console. Following the footsteps of the Sony Playstation2, Microsoft is gradually moving its existing chips to new process technologies as it evolves toward a smaller, quieter, cooler system dubbed Falcon.
Xbox 360 launched 18 years ago and was a generation-defining console that invited many people to jump into gaming for the first time and connect with friends around the world. We’re thrilled people continue playing their favorite Xbox 360 games on Xbox 360, or on newer consoles via Backward Compatibility for supported titles.
"we believe in game preservation"
Remember the media reaction when PlayStation wanted to shut down the PS3 store (but then kept it open)... where is that reaction here?
RIP Xbox 360 digital store and all its games.
It really grinds my gears that they are waiting till 10 days before closing to give the best discounts and the list as of now is 100 or less titles from the massive 360 library
I should have enough points by the weekend to get £25 credit off MS, (hardly ever spend money on xb1), might look at a few of these.
The Xbox 360 store was one of the only advantages the Xbox Series consoles had over the PS5. When I got my series X, I spent more playing Xbox 360 games vs current-gen Xbox games since that was the golden era for Xbox and several titles had enhancements such as 4k resolution and fps boost.
Closing this store will now only benefit the competition.
Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.
From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.
For a new ELITE ELITE Xbox 360!
Xenos: Maximum polygon count: 500 million triangles per second--------RSX: Maximum (optimistic case) polygon count: 750 million and more depending on how many triangle strips are used in a game
Xenos: Maximum Dot product operations: 24 billion per second----------RSX: Maximum Dot product operations: 33 billion per second
Xenos: Maximum shader operations: 48 billion per second (2 ALU x 48 shader pipelines x 500 MHz)-----------RSX: 68 billion shader operations per second (80 billion with Cell CPU)
Xenos: 16 texture filtering units (TF) and 16 texture Addressing unit (TA) 16 filtered samples per clock Maximum texel fillrate: 8 gigatexel per second ( 16 textures x 500 MHz ) 16 unfiltered texture samples per clock----------RSX: 24 texture filtering units (TF) and 8 texture Addressing unit (TA) 24 filtered samples per clock Maximum texel fillrate: 12 gigatexel per second ( 24 textures x 500 MHz ) 32 unfiltered texture samples per clock ( 8 TA x 4 texture samples )
edit : I never said xbox wasnt an amazing peice of hardware besides the failure rate its great..ps3 has not produced a game that is up the par with gears of war i admit that yet resistance was still a good game either way..but lair and uncharted and killzone and rachet and clank look amazine but so does mass effect and too human and halo..i knwo i soulda used commas but i wanted you to read it ...but they both can produce great games
well they better revise their system if they want me to buy their console. I dont want to be dealing with the RROD, neither does anyone else. not being a fanboy here, but you know its true. once that issue is fixed people will buy more 360s.
Anyone who really owns a 360.
is happy because of the Live experience and the Library of games already available.
and to think of the failure rates.... So what??
3 year warranty. and Microsoft is taking action to make it reliable system. Thumbs up man.
3 year warranty shows customer/gamer support.
$100 dollars off in 8months means desperation for customers/gamers
any more freakin SKU's PLEASE