Did you guys know that Xbox was supposed to be DC compatible

[vlame]

Gotham and Metropolis aren't that far from each other...i guess Central City (The Flash) wasn't cool enough.

[Hobie-wan]

Instead of having a screen, the 360 has 4 quadrants of light that can tell you various things when something happens in a game, but its not utilized as much as the screen on the DC controller was for game specific info.

The quadrants tell you what number controller it is. I haven't seen any games which do anything with the lights.

[Anthony817]

@Hobie-wan, I read it in a magazine years ago, I also haven't seen many games use it, but they do from time to time.

[Balasubbie]

^ That is generally my contention with Microsoft's arrival into the gaming market. I mean, Sony proved that a huge, fat, hulking corporation could successfully market a console in strides, but did so by introducing something artistically and technologically novel. Whereas Microsoft just landed on the market, with a plagiaristic marketing campaign (they nicked that banned one from Spaced, who also had it nicked by Levi's) and console experience that was, essentially, just a PC in a box. I'm not claiming that this approach is inherently wrong, but unlike Sony, Microsoft just stuck the Xbox on the market like a big, fat bull and pumped billions upon lost billions into it 'til the brand was established, it wasn't done with any finesse, is my point in a really roundabout way. Really, in hindsight, the oXbox's existence was just one drawn-out prelude to the 360.

On the subject on which, the 360's birth and life might seem terribly familiar to us Dreamcast lovers:

http://www.1up.com/features/dreamcast-20

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Regardless of how Microsoft came into the market. I'm loving my oXbox.

It would've been neat to get DC compatibility. Then I wouldn't be stuck with those terrible controllers.

[Xeogred]

Regardless of how Microsoft came into the market. I'm loving my oXbox.

It would've been neat to get DC compatibility. Then I wouldn't be stuck with those terrible controllers.

Yeah, for awhile I thought there was a good DC emulator for the original Xbox for some reason and I was excited since I figured the button mapping would be nearly the same, but with better Xbox controllers... guess not though.

[Hatta]

The Dreamcast has a 128 bit SH4 processor and PowerVR graphics. The Xbox has what is essentially a Pentium III and a Geforce4. There's no way an Xbox is running DC games without embedding an entire DC in there. I can't believe that was ever seriously considered. I expect a confused journalist is misquoting someone.

[darthmunky]

That would have been awesome and theyre stupid for not doing it!

[gtmtnbiker]

The Dreamcast has a 128 bit SH4 processor and PowerVR graphics. The Xbox has what is essentially a Pentium III and a Geforce4. There's no way an Xbox is running DC games without embedding an entire DC in there. I can't believe that was ever seriously considered. I expect a confused journalist is misquoting someone.

Agreed unless the early xbox design documents had it using the SH4 processor instead of PIII.

[noiseredux]

Agreed unless the early xbox design documents had it using the SH4 processor instead of PIII.

that's what I was thinking. They said it was seriously considered. That doesn't say WHEN it was considered. So it was most likely early in the design process before anything was decided upon.