I had/have a large game library. I never trade anything in so when the original Xbox was hooked up I’d just buy a game and install it to the drive then put the disc in a box in the basement.

God I miss that…I never modded my 360 cause it seemed harder to do with less features. Hopefully since the new consoles are like the original Xbox just a PC in a box there will be mod chips. Its less likely as security improves but I can hope.

I don’t even care if the chip blocks piracy and just allows homebrew. I suppose I could just build a small PC and hide it behind my TV too. It just is more fun to hack something to do more than designed.

I remember the first softmod for Xbox using save files to overwrite the bios. Mind blowing at the time. The first time I booted up an emulator i was just stunned lol.

I did that too, I had the biggest harddrive it would let me put it along the original version of xbmc!

Never got that many xbox games per say, it was very much an emulator/media center box… and I played 90% on PC back in those days, I just could not get why people would play a shooter at 30fps at such a low resolution (compared to a good PC monitor of the day) with a controller! .. times don’t change that much, PC gamers keep saying the same things about consoles, they have been since they first got VGA cards, before then it was Amiga/Atari gamers that had the upper hand.

It was pretty nice especially if you installed a mod chip. My Xbox had about 300 games on a hard drive array along with every genesis, SNES and nes game and it also acted as my home media server

That was my feeling when the ps3 and 360 came out, the previous consoles, especially the xbox, could manage pretty much everything we saw on the new machines, if you scaled back on resolution, texture size and shader effects.

The first xbox was a pretty powerful console for its time and it had a hard drive!

Totally correct.
And if I bought a $2500 PC now……would that PC still be running the latest games perfectly well by the time the PS4s lifetime is at it’s end?

The way I see it is that what a system is capable of compared to what actually happens are 2 very seprate things.

If I was a PC “master race” only gamer…..I would still not have Red Dead Redemption and still be waiting for Grand Theft Auto 5. Which happen to be 2 of my favourite games of all time.

Plus PCs are generally more prone to system failures…..more so if you use that PC for more than just gaming. Consoles are generally a safe investment to ensure we get to play the latest games without constant needed upgrades and worries if it will run a certain game etc. I certainly take this method and sacrifice a bit of extra graphic power that becomes totally irrelevant anyway once I start really getting into the game.

Attached photo of the PS3 movie render farm. They’re probably doing something similar for Uncharted 4 linking PS4s together to render the movie files for the cutscenes “in-engine” using higher quality models and effects.

He was comparing it to a full out CG trailer though, I was just pointing out that it is not the same. Even if the U4 demo thingy was just a tech demo it was still running on console, comparing it to a flat out Video is crazy. It doesnt even begin to compare to Cg.

Then I think you are misunderstanding Butterfly. He is saying that trailer is not an accurate representation of gameplay. It isn’t. It is running in the game’s engine, but is merely a cinematic and the actual gameplay wont be as detailed.

No, just read the post then look it up. It’s pretty basic stuff to understand.