Details on MS's plans to turn your 360 into a TiVo.
GameVideos has posted a new interview with Microsoft execs Chris Satchell and Albert Penello, outlining the company's plans to bring IPTV to Xbox 360.
Part one covers downloadable movies, picture-in-picture, 360's TV channel guide (semi-transparent and nice), using 360 as a PVR or TiVo, and the likelihood of Microsoft offering a larger hard drive. "There's a reason why it's a detachable hard drive," says Penello, although he won't actually confirm that a bigger drive is in the works.
And in part two, they talk with Satchell and Penello about Xbox Live as it compares to Nintendo and Sony's online plans -- how awesome are Miis (so awesome) and if (and when) Microsoft will make Xbox Live Gold free.
GL: "Staff writer Shaz reflects on his small library of physical games he's kept throughout the decades, and how a recent move made him nostalgic."
I lost my drive for collecting physical games due to many discs lacking the whole complete game. Instead, of collecting games I started collected figurines.
I am a collector have a room dedicated with a couple original arcade cabinets, physical game library, old and new consoles and controllers backlit with LED lighting. It’s very cool to have but with emulation being so strong and prevalent, I sometimes feel foolish because the hobby is expensive and like another said, the full game is not always on the disc. Could probably spend more wisely but I enjoy it.
Most games are usually on disc still. Of course you got you publishers that are hit and miss, Activision, ubisoft, ea, Microsoft, where the rest of the game needs downloaded.
While some video games overwhelm you with sheer scale, titles like Asura's Wrath and Doom Eternal make you the boss player right upfront.
Wolfenstein: The New Order turns ten years old today, so we decided to play it again and discovered just how much of an extinct kind of game it is.
It's an outstanding game and so was The Old Blood. Also a lost era of gaming. Interesting, I received a physical copy of The Old Blood 9 years ago today from Poland. It was digital only in North America initially upon release so I had to import.
Could families one day have Jetson style super Home entertainment boxes with interfaces through out homes connected to THE main BOX. PC's running/interacting with Home entertainment BOXES. One to rule them all. J/K.
Nice, I want it
This is a huge thing also.
People don't seem to get it, but this will make the 360 sales explode. IPTV companies will have the 360 as the new set top box free with a package or for a small fee.
This will move the 360 into homes that otherwise wouldn't even had bought a gaming device and still MS will earn money for the use... And probably they'll start using games like this by learning to discover the machine.
This can change the consolewar from an equal share of the market which analists projected to a certain win for the 360
Does anyone else have problems with the 1up.com web site?
if you go back and collect all the articles that has been posted from 1up...you would then have a collection of articles i could never get to work...what is going on ...anyone?
they already announced that there would be larger hard drives before the system even came out. it's just a matter of when and how much.
i don't wanna wait longer :-) i think maybe more news when windows vista launched end of the month. i hope they have a couple nice superbowl commercials like the Halo one.