Microsoft E3 2004 Press Conference - Part 1

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Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Microsoft
• E3
• 2004
• Press
• Conference
• Keynote
• Halo
• Tattoo
• Peter
• Moore

[faethor7]

@SlamageEntertainment - re-read fool's chaos's post. The original poster was saying that the xbox didnt innovate at all, chaos's posts were saying that wasnt true. His comment about about the original xbox was that they didnt have a line, but for the 360 they did, and in fact they sold out. I also had to wait when it released, NO ONE had them at launch in my area, Im sure it was the case for alot of people. They didnt have that many launch units, 360's were scarse at first

[SlamageEntertainment]

@FoolsChaos You're comparing the Dreamcast, a failed gaming system that sold 10.6 million units, to a console that sold 24 million units AND The massive Zero hour Xbox 360 launch and the Xbox 360 sold 65.8 million units. The fuck are you talking about? The Xbox launch in NYCity was a big deal. Zero hour was a big deal. They had TRUCKS FILLED with Xbox 360s at Zero Hour. And if a store is sold out of Xbox 360s, you go to ANOTHER store, and if not, you go to ANOTHER store.

[FoolsChaos]

@azechirai - no question, Dreamcast was amazing and very ahead of the curve. I remember the dreamcast launch, it was a big deal, I was there to get mine at midnight along with a hundred others. When the xbox released, there was no midnight launch locally, and there was one guy ahead of me waiting in line, and he wasn't there to buy a xbox. When the 360 launched, I had to wait over a month as there wasnt enough consoles at launch, what a difference!

[FoolsChaos]

@azechirai - I still have my Dreamcast and play it once in awhile. I loved it, and was very sad it never lived to it's true potential. Soul Calibur at the time was just amazing to me, and that Quake 3 looked better than my PC running a Voodoo3 card at the time as it had 32bit color. I won't disagree that Xbox was an evolution rather than a revolution, but it started what many take for granted now. My original point was that the xbox was the first console to have it all built in.

[azechirai]

@FoolsChaos I agree with that, I just referenced it, to note that Sony thought of it and had the possibility before Xbox came out. In the end they never used it for something big, and Xbox used it like a boss, so Xbox is responsible for the current use of it in every system.

Interesting fact: there is an adaptor for Dreamcast to read SD Cards, its awesome ;)

[azechirai]

@FoolsChaos Well the DC also had downloadable content, but it couldn't be much used since there was no hard drive. We also have to see that the Dreamcast did this in out of the box in 1998, and it had voice in online games too, like in Alien Front Online. Halo 2 was released in 04 and Quake 3 in 99, im not criticizing the Xbox, but Dreamcast broke almost all barriers that Xbox claimed breaking in subsequent years , Xbox sure improved, but thats the result of tecnology evolution.

[FoolsChaos]

@azechirai The hard drive was a big deal though, because it wasnt built in on the PS2, developers hardly supported it. The xbox always had it and it was great to not rely of memory cards, and games ran faster and looked better thanks to cached textures, something that the PS2's 4mb of vram could not do, and why PS2 games looked blurry, even compared to Dreamcast.

[FoolsChaos]

@azechirai - I also had a Dreamcast, and I loved it, but it's network was very limited, Dialup was built in, games were multiplayer only, and prone to latency issues. Xbox allowed DLC and multiplayer with voice, and was much better as everyone had LAN rather than dialup, The average Dreamcast user was stuck with dialup as LAN was a option but not built in. Halo2 multiplayer was way better than Quake 3 on dreamcast, I played a ton of both.

[azechirai]

@FoolsChaos Dreamcast had online network and lan connector, and ps2 athough not having a built in hd, you could install one in it.

[FoolsChaos]

@hotchocolate420 - At all??? - You mean besides being the first console to feature a dedicated online network? Being the first console with a built in network Lan connector, a built in HD?