Xbox 2 In Motion
Someone who's seen an Xbox 2 game describes the wonder.
by Anoop Gantayat
March 1, 2005 - Final Fantasy father Hironobu Sakaguchi made a surprise
announcement last week that his new development studio, Mistwalker,
would be working with Microsoft on the development of two RPGs for the
next-generation Xbox. Upon hearing the news, we immediately started
imagining what we could expect from the new titles.
One individual far more privileged than team IGN Xbox was able to do
more than just imagine. Sakaguchi gave Hirokazu Hamamura, president of
Famitsu publisher Enterbrain and one of the most respected names in the
Japanese videogame scene, a private first look at a video of the game
in motion.
During a speech given at the Asia Online Game Conference 2005, Hamamura
had this to say about the experience: "It's such a realistic video that
with just one look you'll know that you're looking at a next-generation
system. It's something that cannot be realized on today's machines."
Going into more details, Hamamura offered an example of what's possible
on the next generation Xbox: "It's possible to show a camera outside
the Earth's atmosphere approach a forest on the Earth's surface, then
show leaves on a tree one at a time." Hamamura wasn't clear on if he'd
seen this specifically in the Mistwalker footage, or if he was just
giving an example of his own.
Regardless, this is an exciting view of things to come. Hopefully,
we'll get to see what impressed Hamamura so much as Microsoft gets set
to unveil the Xbox successor.
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Who cares, you can get that and more with a good computer now. Hell with
xbox.
Ryan
> Ryan
>
Hey, where have you been?
Oh here and there. Mostly not much to post about, though I do read most of
everything. Glad work is going good for ya.
Maybe I should get a LJ account, are the juggalos still holding your
attention? heh They've been pretty dull on usenet.
Ryan
Yes, and on greatestjournal.com. I piss them off everywhere. Join, and
I'll make you a mod, so you can have total asshole powers!
> Who cares, you can get that and more with a good computer now. Hell with
> xbox.
Yeah, but just wait for PS3. The Cell chip is done, finally.