Re: > WoW! Toshiba LO$T at least $1 BILLION on HD-DVD in 2007!

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No, those will be built when MS places a 50 million unit order starting from Summer 2011.

Alrighty, at least even I get the satire now. I guess I take what people say here sometimes way too seriously. I know you would use the wink thingy here, but it doesn't work, so some of us might actually think you weren't joking.

That pic looks wrong poster5...

I'm afraid of third world countries...

[Post edited by mvckalel on Mar 14, 2008]

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Alrighty, at least even I get the satire now.

It's not a satire.

Basically, we now have rough Xbox Third schedule from Tim Sweeney, the head developer of Unreal Engine series that powers the majority of console games nowadays. According to him, he has infact started working on Unreal Engin 4 for Xbox Third, and he is shooting for a 10-core CPU to be delivered to him by early 2010, and the system itself launches on November 2011.

Accordingly, the optical drive for Xbox Third enters mass production by late spring 2011.

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There is a long life ahead for Unreal Engine 3. Version 4 will exclusively target the next console generation, Microsoft's successor for the Xbox 360, Sony's successor for the Playstation 3 - and if Nintendo ships a machine with similar hardware specs, then that also. PCs will follow after that.

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36436/118/1/1/

ten cores you are talking about? available on every system, if not more. He only mentions 360 successor because it will be the first next gen console to be released.

not only that but ps4 is already in the works, with the idea of including 4 cell processors to make the system completely 100% online. slated to be out at the same time as the next xbox.
they are rehauling everything from the programming architecture to the online integration. whats your point?

[Post edited by theprof00 on Mar 14, 2008]

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ten cores you are talking about?

Well, it won't actually be ten cores, but more like ten theads.

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available on every system

You don't know what you are talking about. Only Microsoft has implemented a correct parrallel programming model usable by game prorgammers. PS3 is every game developer's worst nightmare come true.

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He only mentions 360 successor because it will be the first next gen console to be released.

Exactly. The point I am trying to make here is that Microsoft needs an optical drive that could be put into Xbox 3 for $20 in 2011, which excludes Blu-Ray since the drive royalty alone is $30. That leaves Microsoft with three options.

1. HD-DVD-Red. Basically a red-laser version of HD-DVD. 21 GB max.
2. FVD : Taiwanese optical standard able to deliver 15 GB max.
3. VMD : Chinese optical standard able to dleiver 20 GB max.

Why is that Door Man giving me the finger?

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Exactly. The point I am trying to make here is that Microsoft needs an optical drive that could be put into Xbox 3 for $20 in 2011, which excludes Blu-Ray since the drive royalty alone is $30. That leaves Microsoft with three options.

1. HD-DVD-Red. Basically a red-laser version of HD-DVD. 21 GB max.
2. FVD : Taiwanese optical standard able to deliver 15 GB max.
3. VMD : Chinese optical standard able to dleiver 20 GB max.

They could also use a proprietary disc format.