The Xbox 360 only sold 0.1 million more units than the PS3 during the first quarter of fiscal 2009-10.
Since all three platform holders have reported their financial statistics for the three month period ending June 30th, we can now get a better idea at how each of the company's consoles have performed.
Graphics programmer Ryan Geiss posted a news blog on his website where he states:
"I can finally disclose that I'm one of the core developers of the human-tracking algorithms for Project Natal (click for more info), bringing full-body motion control to the Xbox 360+"
A European Xbox360 games retailer has revealed details of an upcoming console ‘Ultimate Halo Pack’ which Microsoft will start shipping on the launch of Halo3: ODST. Since the retailer has now removed details (possibly) because Microsoft has not yet made an announcement, a screenshot was taken to prove its existence.
The pack is rumoured to include:
Xbox360 Pro Console Halo3 Classic Halo Wars Halo3: ODST MasterChief Bobblehead 2 Wireless Controllers 60GB HDD 1 Month Xbox Live Gold Subscription Scart/AV/HDMI Cables Listed Price of 399.99 Euros
Microsoft has signed another partner for Xbox Live in Europe, with French pay-TV station Canal + joining the service.
According to a Reuters report, over 3000 films will be on offer at launch, along with live and on-demand football, drama and soap opera programming.
Tried this demo out and it provided a "WoW" moment for sure. Even downloading a 500+ patch for World at War in the background appeared to no phase it, I was watching this movie with the only glitch being my PC thrashing about as it transferred the 500+ MB file to my save location and even then it only degraded the picture quality and soon ramped back up in my case from the 2.75M whilst the download was going to 5M after. Very impressive Tech indeed.
For those that have the bandwidth this will be very impressive.
This is actually an old article but it provides a link to a Microsofts Test platform for the 1080p Smooth Streaming as will be used on the 360 for its Zune service.
Yes do not see how the Natal system can be built in without causing siting issues for the box as it will always need to be in a good position and on the bottom of a TV/Hi Fi unit might not be the ideal spot for a Natal system.
I do however see this unit bundled with a Natal break out box of some kind.
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