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Microsoft developer tools prep for next Xbox

malebolgia   on 08 March 2005 - 15:25 · 19 comments & 1344 views

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Microsoft released a new set of developer tools Monday meant to ease the creation of games for the next version of the company's Xbox video game console.

XNA Studio is one of the first major products to come out of the XNA initiative Microsoft announced a year ago to standardize game development across different systems. Developers could use the same XNA tools to create games for Windows PCs, the current Xbox and future versions of the console, Microsoft promised. XNA Studio is based on Visual Studio 2005 Team System, Microsoft's collection of code-writing tools for Windows developers who work in large teams.

News source: C|Net News.com


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#1 bucko on 08 Mar 2005 - 16:00
Nice
#2 GRex on 08 Mar 2005 - 16:42
this will make for alot of PC to Console ports and vice versa very easy. definitely a step in the right direction.
(3 replies) #3 2xSilverKnight on 08 Mar 2005 - 16:43
i work at Ubisoft Montreal and we got it early. There are secrets projects in progress.
The next gen Microsoft console should be named Xenon, Xenon is the codename but Microsoft will call it that way (not 100 % official thought). Like Xbox was the codename of Xbox.
#3.1 Post-It Note on 08 Mar 2005 - 17:04
Alright I am the actual biggest stockholder of Microsoft, and I can tell you that Ubisoft doesn't exist, anymore!

#3.2 2xSilverKnight on 08 Mar 2005 - 17:49
i like your sense of humour. Don't believe me, i don't care, cause i really work there. I can even announce that chaos theory Xbox and PC versions are gold. PS2 and GC should come in the next days if all goes right.
#3.3 panacea on 08 Mar 2005 - 20:16
chaos thory is due in 3 weeks. i wonder if it'll be "released" earlier
#4 EduardValencia on 08 Mar 2005 - 16:53
OMG it's the XNA
(1 reply) #5 icecaveman on 08 Mar 2005 - 16:56
right if you'd work for ubi soft you would not be at liberty to leak this info.
#5.1 2xSilverKnight on 08 Mar 2005 - 17:54
it's not something i can't talk of. It's far too be confidential. The information as already been leaked and anyway all is pointing in that way. Sony said PS3 will be announced this month so .. even if it will came out only in 2006.

Perhaps, i signed a confidential contract, i know what i can say and not say. The name of a console is not such a big confidential info. And I said that it should be not it will be.
#6 tsiris on 08 Mar 2005 - 16:58
Check the ...2005 link. There is a redundant http://-
(1 reply) #7 BigBoy on 08 Mar 2005 - 20:47
If anything will make next XBOX stand out compared to PS3 - its going to be this, not the hardware, IMHO...
#7.1 EduardValencia on 08 Mar 2005 - 23:20
also in hardware XNA capabilities go far beyond
(2 replies) #8 prodigyblue on 09 Mar 2005 - 00:52
i wonder why they switched from x86 hardware to powerpc on the xbox maybe microsoft will start selling powerpc computers.
#8.1 Dirtie on 09 Mar 2005 - 09:19
Wouldn't that put a smile on Apple and IBM's faces.
#8.2 AJCrowley Esq on 09 Mar 2005 - 18:02
They did? Cool, not that Microsoft particularly owes anything to any chip manufacturer over another, but it seems surprising if only in that it's the platform used and touted by their main commercial competition. I'm sure it will be good news for gamers, and even better news for Mac users, who may end up seeing more games on their platform as a result.

Side note, It's very rare that a console to PC port seems to go well, they usually end up feeling half baked, and in the case of EA's latest hockey title, even made a number of the controls unconfigurable, and failed to support a number of pads (my PS2 pad with USB adapter included). Alias was also another fine example, there were no options to customize graphics to match the performance of your machine, at all. PC to console ports seem to always be good news for console gamers, but console to PC games seem to virtually guarantee PC gamers a limited and lacklustre product. Notable exceptions seem to inculde Republic Commando and The Chronicles of Riddick, which both far outclassed their console counterparts imo.
#9 darksoul on 09 Mar 2005 - 14:35
This is a great idea, i hope it works out
(2 replies) #10 DeMo_BR on 10 Mar 2005 - 03:23
Oh yeah.. Microsoft takes another step towards world domination!

Microsoft says that with XNA game studios will have to worry less about code and will have more time to work on graphics, sound, maps etc. Come on.. we all know what Microsoft's objective is.. they want to create a standard and then have all consoles and developers tied to their standard and buying their development tools (aka Visual Studio).

Sooner or later they will go to Nintendo and offer them a good proposal to change their consoles to a XNA enabled hardware.
#10.1 SquareSoft0 on 10 Mar 2005 - 05:37
You're an imaginative young boy, your mother must be proud.
#10.2 nookadum on 10 Mar 2005 - 06:51
Well, it WOULD suck if there was a fixed standard. I don't think it would happen though since game developers have to be dynamic for their games to actually be enjoyable.

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