Comments on: The Xbox 360: It has more pixels https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2005/05/16/xbox-360-we-are-all-semi-doomed-perhaps/ My name is Jesper Juul, and I am a Ludologist [researcher of the design, meaning, culture, and politics of games]. This is my blog on game research and other important things. Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:14:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jesica https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2005/05/16/xbox-360-we-are-all-semi-doomed-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-2609 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:37:53 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.dk/ludologist/?p=182#comment-2609 carol of the bells sheet music

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]]> By: walter_3_d https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2005/05/16/xbox-360-we-are-all-semi-doomed-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-1949 Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:56:15 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.dk/ludologist/?p=182#comment-1949 I just setup a Pluto Home system (smarthome + media server, plutohome.com, free open source). It?s really cool. It has a streaming movie server, music server, pvr. Plus it does home automation and controls a/v equipment too. There?s only 1 problem?

You designate 1 PC to be the server; they call it the core. It exposes a network boot image for any other PC in the house, so your PC becomes dual purpose?normal pc, or net boot and it?s a set top box. You control it with Bluetooth mobile phones or web pads. And all the set top boxes in the house work together. Your media even follows you as you move from room to room if you keep the phone on. The problem is I don?t have enough media pc?s for all the rooms in my house, and buying a full PC for each room is too expensive. Plus there?s no video cards for the PC that have component video output?which is the only way I can get HDTV into my tv.

The X-Box seems perfect as a media director. It?s a PC inside, right? So why couldn?t it boot like normal as an Xbox, or net boot as a pluto media director? Then it would be part of a whole house solution that did everything. I could even use the Xbox to turn on my sprinklers if I wanted, and do all sorts of stuff with it. Plus, since Pluto gives it a network boot image, space is no longer an issue?all the software could be stored on the main server. And the XBox has component video and it?s quiet and cheap.

Does anybody have an idea if it would be possible to use the XBox as a media director like that, doing a network boot? Then I could just buy a few of the XBox?s rather than having to buy regular PC?s.

]]> By: Sergio CASAS https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2005/05/16/xbox-360-we-are-all-semi-doomed-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-1847 Wed, 18 May 2005 19:04:12 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.dk/ludologist/?p=182#comment-1847 Jesper, what will be the future of videogames industry? I’m not very happy with Microsoft introducing its way of seeing technology, with all that marketing-consuming thing, ultra-horsepower consoles without innovation… I don’t know, but maybe now it’s happening something similar than what happened in the mid 80’s with Atari’s poor vision of the business. PS3 is a really ugly console, they want us to eat the same sh… as always, the same games, the same sequels, I don’t even think in cinema as a so predictible industry, even Star Wars let something more to the imagination that the the same gunned, violent, racist and sexist games of always. We are idiotizing our teenagers in giving them to eat that garbage.

I see Nintendo as a little innovator, Nintendogs is an example, Project Rub is also a good one. Can you, with your knowledge, illustrate us a little bit more?

]]> By: JunkerJames https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2005/05/16/xbox-360-we-are-all-semi-doomed-perhaps/comment-page-1/#comment-1846 Tue, 17 May 2005 12:42:02 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.dk/ludologist/?p=182#comment-1846 Live Arcade is one real leg up that MS has over the competition. The Dashboard interface is doing a lot of good work.

However, I have heard rumours that Live Arcade’s internal development budget was cut! So, the one *useful* thing that can separate them from the competition is something they won’t invest any belief in. What a pity.

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