Chris Pirillo has an Xbox 360, geek event to come Thursday

I hate Chris Pirillo. He has an HDTV screen (Maryam won’t let me buy one, says we have to pay off credit cards first) and he also has an Xbox 360. Damn him!

Anyway, Thursday he’s having a few people over. I think I’ll crash his party and eat his food. Heh. Oh, wait, it’s being podcast? And I gotta kick Pete Grondal and Larry Hryb off of the couch? Even more fun! Hey, give me that controller!

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Comments

  1. So Microsoft doesn’t hook their “technical evangelist” up with the latest Microsoft gear? I think someone needs to renegotiate their perks package.

  2. So Microsoft doesn’t hook their “technical evangelist” up with the latest Microsoft gear? I think someone needs to renegotiate their perks package.

  7. Ummm, you do know that Sarbanes-Oxley forbids such? Your company would need to mark it as an expense. You can’t take products as perks, rather it has to be as pay. But goto Japan, tons of them there, only 28% sold, cept then regional coding issues.

    But what a wipeout, that launch. Amazing to watch, hardcore fanboys downright loving Moore, Nelson, John P., Allard, now calling them lying Devils. Already game over tho. And Revolution if it prices right and with that controller, might even overtake. I predict, instead of a good second place showing, 360 will dip to a close 3rd.

  8. Ummm, you do know that Sarbanes-Oxley forbids such? Your company would need to mark it as an expense. You can’t take products as perks, rather it has to be as pay. But goto Japan, tons of them there, only 28% sold, cept then regional coding issues.

    But what a wipeout, that launch. Amazing to watch, hardcore fanboys downright loving Moore, Nelson, John P., Allard, now calling them lying Devils. Already game over tho. And Revolution if it prices right and with that controller, might even overtake. I predict, instead of a good second place showing, 360 will dip to a close 3rd.

  11. Chris - what exactly are you talking about?

    I’m betting the 360 takes the lead in the US this generation, though I’m betting it will be close.

    I think Japan will be a marked improvement over the original Xbox, but it will happen gradually, as games like Blue Dragon and Lost Planet appear.

    The most interesting time to watch will be when the PS3 ships. I’m betting there’s a lot of disappointment when people realize how full of hot air Sony is wrt the PS3’s capabilities.

    Sony is using the same tactics they used against the Dreamcast. Pretend you have a hardware advantage. Pretend that it’s a “supercomputer” and just hype, hype, hype until people start to believe it.

    Problem is, that worked on the Dreamcast because Sega ran out of money before the PS2 was released. This time, it looks like it’s Sony that’s clinging to life.

  12. Chris - what exactly are you talking about?

    I’m betting the 360 takes the lead in the US this generation, though I’m betting it will be close.

    I think Japan will be a marked improvement over the original Xbox, but it will happen gradually, as games like Blue Dragon and Lost Planet appear.

    The most interesting time to watch will be when the PS3 ships. I’m betting there’s a lot of disappointment when people realize how full of hot air Sony is wrt the PS3’s capabilities.

    Sony is using the same tactics they used against the Dreamcast. Pretend you have a hardware advantage. Pretend that it’s a “supercomputer” and just hype, hype, hype until people start to believe it.

    Problem is, that worked on the Dreamcast because Sega ran out of money before the PS2 was released. This time, it looks like it’s Sony that’s clinging to life.

  13. “The most interesting time to watch will be when the PS3 ships. I’m betting there’s a lot of disappointment when people realize how full of hot air Sony is wrt the PS3’s capabilities.”

    Uh, no the problem is that the PS3 will use pretty much the same hardware as the Xbox, namely a cell based PowerPC, and Sony announced those plans way back when the original Xbox was hitting the streets, complete with block diagrams showing how it would all work. Wasn’t this like 4 years ago?

    If anyone will be surprised it will be Microsoft, who, thinking that they could copy this concept and rush it out the door sooner will find they bet on the wrong video card, the wrong DVD format and didn’t get all the nuances of the cell processor right either.

    Sony has been in no hurry to upgrade their hardware because they enjoyed such a comfortable lead, and now they can tailgate Microsoft watching for and correcting errors they make.

    Sort of sounds like what Microsoft does with their software products doesn’t it? And it sucks to be a consumer with such companies being the “technology leaders”.

    But hey, they treat us like slaves. Haven’t you heard?

  14. “The most interesting time to watch will be when the PS3 ships. I’m betting there’s a lot of disappointment when people realize how full of hot air Sony is wrt the PS3’s capabilities.”

    Uh, no the problem is that the PS3 will use pretty much the same hardware as the Xbox, namely a cell based PowerPC, and Sony announced those plans way back when the original Xbox was hitting the streets, complete with block diagrams showing how it would all work. Wasn’t this like 4 years ago?

    If anyone will be surprised it will be Microsoft, who, thinking that they could copy this concept and rush it out the door sooner will find they bet on the wrong video card, the wrong DVD format and didn’t get all the nuances of the cell processor right either.

    Sony has been in no hurry to upgrade their hardware because they enjoyed such a comfortable lead, and now they can tailgate Microsoft watching for and correcting errors they make.

    Sort of sounds like what Microsoft does with their software products doesn’t it? And it sucks to be a consumer with such companies being the “technology leaders”.

    But hey, they treat us like slaves. Haven’t you heard?

  15. macbeach - how do you figure?

    The Cell processor wasn’t designed for games. Just ask IBM. The Xenon chip in the X360, on the other hand, was built specifically for that purpose.

    You do realize the X360 isn’t based on Cell, right? Individually, one of the 360’s 3 cores is very similar to the PPE which is heart of Sony’s Cell processor. But Xenon chip is a special beast… it has 3 cores where Sony’s version only has 1, it has 3 game-tuned vertex processors, a dot product instruction, and a brilliant caching system that facilitates procedural geometry.

    Wrong video card?!? The X360’s GPU is vastly superior to the bandwidth-starved 7800GTX that’s in the PS3. There’s really no comparing the two… The X360 is at a clear advantage here. What Sony will tell you is that the “Cell” chip’s SPEs will somehow magically make up for this. We’ll see.

    Wrong DVD format? How is choosing *the only DVD format the exists today* the wrong format?

    Before you start accusing Microsoft of “not getting all the nuances right” you might want to actually understand the architectures behind these two systems. I’m pretty sure you got that backward.

  16. macbeach - how do you figure?

    The Cell processor wasn’t designed for games. Just ask IBM. The Xenon chip in the X360, on the other hand, was built specifically for that purpose.

    You do realize the X360 isn’t based on Cell, right? Individually, one of the 360’s 3 cores is very similar to the PPE which is heart of Sony’s Cell processor. But Xenon chip is a special beast… it has 3 cores where Sony’s version only has 1, it has 3 game-tuned vertex processors, a dot product instruction, and a brilliant caching system that facilitates procedural geometry.

    Wrong video card?!? The X360’s GPU is vastly superior to the bandwidth-starved 7800GTX that’s in the PS3. There’s really no comparing the two… The X360 is at a clear advantage here. What Sony will tell you is that the “Cell” chip’s SPEs will somehow magically make up for this. We’ll see.

    Wrong DVD format? How is choosing *the only DVD format the exists today* the wrong format?

    Before you start accusing Microsoft of “not getting all the nuances right” you might want to actually understand the architectures behind these two systems. I’m pretty sure you got that backward.