Re: Bioware goes Xbox 360

"Mean_Chlorine" <mike_noren2002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thusly toadie05@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Spake Unto All:
>
>>Developers are liking and in some cases completely switching to the
>>360 due to ease (for the lack of a better word) let's be honest the
>>360 is basically a stripped down PC sans a k/b and mouse out of the
>>box.
>
> No, it's not. The xbox was a stripped-down PC, but the xbox2 is closer
> to being a stripped-down Mac.
>

The most important factor for the switch is that even though the hardware is
totally different, the Xbox 360, like the Xbox, is a Windows machine that
has its games built with similiar development tools found on the Windows PC,
so there isn't this HUGE leap into the new/unknown that programming for the
Revolution/PS3 hardware and OS would be.

> And devs have switched not because consoles are easier to code for,
> but because the profit margins are greater.
>


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