So there's a presentation with a XB360 in four hours.

[Tim Murray]

MS guy running it, actual XB360, etc. Any questions I should ask? Can't guarantee that I'm going to go, but I'll try.

 

[expletive]

MS guy running it, actual XB360, etc. Any questions I should ask? Can't guarantee that I'm going to go, but I'll try.

If possible, ask if the specs of the final hardware for match the published specs or if there were changes for the better/worse as the silicon was actually produced.

J

 

[Confidence-Man]

Demonstrating games or just hardware talk?

 

[Tim Murray]

Demonstrating games or just hardware talk?

Both, from what the description says.

 

[blakjedi]

Ask if they think the bandwidth tradeoffs they made were worth it in hindsight. Also if XeCPU is closer to DD1 or DD2 in design.

 

[expletive]

Ask if they think the bandwidth tradeoffs they made were worth it in hindsight. Also if XeCPU is closer to DD1 or DD2 in design.

What bandwidth tradeoffs?

J

 

[Brimstone]

Is the "rumble technology" improved upon from the 1st generation Xbox technology?

 

[scooby_dooby]

Ask them if they are planning on supporting "Windows Media Connect" on regular XP machines.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/devices/wmconnect/default.aspx

The product is supposed to allow all "digital media receivers" to stream video, audio and images form XP. is the X360 not a digital media reciever??

Q: Will WMC enable streaming of video for users of regular windows XP?

 

[Carl B]

Ask if they think the bandwidth tradeoffs they made were worth it in hindsight. Also if XeCPU is closer to DD1 or DD2 in design.

I highly doubt they're going to put their architecture in terms of the Cell's PPE iterations. They may not even be familiar with it, depending.

 

[scooby_dooby]

Another Question:

Q: Are MMO's the only genre that are allowed to require a HDD? Or is this option open to any developer that chooses?

and a follow up:

Q: How do you plan to distinguish the HDD-requiered titles. Will there be a special logo on the Game packaging?

 

[Carl B]

I would say ask about the Xenos bandwidth argument going on in the 'New 360 GPU Article' thread.

I doubt they would really know the answer to that one either though, unless they're sending some more technically minded folks over to do the presentation.

 

[blakjedi]

What bandwidth tradeoffs?

J

Moving bandwidth intensive activities to Edram thereby allowing for Lower bandwidth on the chip to chip interconnects, GPU<->CPU for example. Obviously they could made higher bandwidth interconnects but didn't....

hey supposedly they doing hardware talk so I asked... *shrug*

 

[Nite_Hawk]

Ask them if the inspriation for the case came from the Dell optiplex line of corporate PCs.

Nite_Hawk

 

[Mefisutoferesu]

I hope it's not too late... if you would, please ask them whether there will be region coding in the console. For importing games and such. Thanks.

 

[Carl B]

I hope it's not too late... if you would, please ask them whether there will be region coding in the console. For importing games and such. Thanks.

They've already announced that it is region-locked.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Are there any examples of procedural synthesis in operation?

 

[Lysander]

number of shades ops per sec in gpu, number of vertices per sec in gpu

 

[Powderkeg]

Ask them if the inspriation for the case came from the Dell optiplex line of corporate PCs.

Nite_Hawk

What do you mean "inspiration?" I thought they got the cases from the same supplier.

 

[bankrupt]

Not very indepth questions but, I wouldn't mind knowing if resolution and screen ratio will be independent... Can I get the VGA adapter and still get 720 vertical pixels on my 4:3 monitor (without letterboxing the 720p widescreen signal.)

also when using backwards compatibility on games like Halo, can the x360 system link with xbox1?

 

[Guden Oden]

I'd like to know read/write speed figures for main CPU cores to/from the auxiliary xenos DRAM. As we know, these figures aren't always that astounding in PC systems, even considering the lower peak figures for the interconnects in PCs than in x360. Even though fastest current AGP is supposed to deliver 2GB/s, it does not get even close in reality. So xCPU<->xenos is 10.5GB/s each way and xenos<->dram module is 32GB/s, how much of that is available in reality?