NEWS - Tuesday, November 7, 2000
Interviews
There’s a couple of interesting interviews floating around concerning the Xbox. First Tim Sweeney (Epic) comments on the console wars over at Voodoo Extreme:The winners of the "console wars" will be gamers, and not only console gamers -- PC games will be bettered by them, as all of the new consoles are more PC-like than ever before, creating lots of opportunities for cross-pollenization of games. We’re supporting PC, PlayStation2, and Xbox wholeheartedly, both as game developers and as engine providers. Unreal Tournament for PlayStation2 has gone gold and will ship as a launch title when the PS2 debuts; the engine is already up and running on Xbox; and of course it has always worked well on PC.....
Be sure to check out the whole thing over at Voodoo Extreme right here.
The second (which is really a stand alone article, not so much an interview) is over at Electronic Buyers News. It’s a good work up of the current and up-coming next generation systems coming to market. Here’s a bit of the Xbox interest:
“We think it’ll offer more than four times the performance of any next-generation game console out there in terms of CPU, graphics, and sound,” said Seamus Blackley, manager of advanced technology for Xbox at Microsoft, Redmond, Wash...
Give the whole article a read at Ebnews right here.
Source: http://www.msxbox.com
