Guest Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Surely it's a question of when rather than if. So, can we expect a internet browser for the 360 in the near future? This is Microsoft after all.. IE7 anybody? :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smigit Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I dont think so soon but I think they will add something down the road to compete with sony. I wouldnt expect it any time soon but if it does happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrKuro Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 It will happen sometime . . MS has to keep up with the rest. Wii has opera , PS3 has there own browser, and eventually X360 will have a variation of IE7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Nintendo launched an Opera based browser for the Wii over the past week too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerxes Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I wouldn't expect something like that any time soon, if at all. Don't forget, MS think a 20Gb (13Gb actual) is more then enough space for the majority of 360 users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PL_ Veteran Posted December 28, 2006 Veteran Share Posted December 28, 2006 I wouldn't expect something like that any time soon, if at all. Don't forget, MS think a 20Gb (13Gb actual) is more then enough space for the majority of 360 users. Well Nintendo consider 512MB to be sufficent :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phemo Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I wouldn't expect something like that any time soon, if at all. Don't forget, MS think a 20Gb (13Gb actual) is more then enough space for the majority of 360 users. Well, it is. A browser isn't going to take up much space anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefmeister Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I wouldn't expect something like that any time soon, if at all. Don't forget, MS think a 20Gb (13Gb actual) is more then enough space for the majority of 360 users. 20Gb is more than enough at the moment. I have 7 demo's installed & 20+ Arcade games +my save games & I still have 9Gb left on my XB360's HDD. In the future MicroSoft could quite easily release a larger HDD for the 360, however at the moment i don't think anymore than 20Gb is really needed. As for a web browser, would never use it. IF i want to surf the net i'll use my PC. The PS3 has a web browser & I heard it wasn't too good. I heard that most pages don't load & using teh control pad is awkward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avalanche Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Seeing as the 360 supports my wireless keyboard and mouse I would really like an internet browser but the community is divided on that matter so I guess it's a "wait and see". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitalx Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Probably once rest of the world has ps3 and it's more competitive and the Wii Opera browser is more popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pc_Madness Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 The problem I spose is that its not really Windows running under the hood any more, it was something similiar to Windows CE in the Xbox 1 the first time around, so porting IE to that would be hard, and I think they've moved even further away from CE this time around. So who knows. Might be too much work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notuptome2004 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 The problem I spose is that its not really Windows running under the hood any more, it was something similiar to Windows CE in the Xbox 1 the first time around, so porting IE to that would be hard, and I think they've moved even further away from CE this time around. So who knows. Might be too much work. Xbox 1 used the Windows 2000 kernal Dreamcast used Windows CE anywho the Wii opera browser is good works great for me and i think if MS did relase a browser it be a custom made one not related to Ie at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orry Verducci Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Considering it's a high definition console, web pages should render nicely on it. It would have to render the text quite thick however, as it would be unreadable when downscaled to SD otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pc_Madness Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Xbox 1 used the Windows 2000 kernal Dreamcast used Windows CE anywho the Wii opera browser is good works great for me and i think if MS did relase a browser it be a custom made one not related to Ie at all Oh was it? :blush: Ignore me then :\ Where the hell did I hear it was CE :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majortom1981 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Well Nintendo consider 512MB to be sufficent :rolleyes: But the wii is not downlaoding movies and stuff to the memory(most of the pictures and movies are on the sd cards.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrCheese Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 If people really want more space you can add a USB 2 drive to it :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smigit Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 But the wii is not downlaoding movies and stuff to the memory(most of the pictures and movies are on the sd cards.) But a web browser on an Xbox likely wouldnt support downloading I assume either. They'd want people using their store to obtain the videos and they need to restrict downloads because people wont even be able to run executables ect. anyway. Any browser would be a pretty closed affair mainly for browsing. You'd need a bit of temporary room for cacheing data but realistically you could get away with 500MB dedicated to cache and thats only if your streaming some huge video clip. I'm sure theres more than enough memory so that a HD wouldnt even be essential for a browser to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowRanger13 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Wii has Opera baced browser, PS3 has Firefox based browser. I have no doubt Xbox360 will get its own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhMuffin Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Considering it's a high definition console, web pages should render nicely on it. It would have to render the text quite thick however, as it would be unreadable when downscaled to SD otherwise. Browsing the we on a 360 would be almost like on a widescreen monitor on a pc @ 1280x720 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted December 29, 2006 Veteran Share Posted December 29, 2006 If people really want more space you can add a USB 2 drive to it :p Only if that was true! :angry: I have a 30GB USB 2.0 2.5" Drive and nope, doesn't even see it. Have a 250GB 3.5" USB 2.0 drive and nope, doesn't see that either. :rolleyes: I'm still waiting to be able to plug in a 750GB USB 2.0 drive or being able to stream from a SANS! Now that would be sweeet.... Imagine 2TB of data ready anywhere in the house via laptops, desktops, and now Xbox 360 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dav-id Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Why not try and develop one using the Microsoft XNA game studio or what ever the game dev studio is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huleboeren Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Why not try and develop one using the Microsoft XNA game studio or what ever the game dev studio is Ye, but that means you have to pay that monthly/annual fee (im not sure) to download the browser. Im not THAT interested in a browser :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheppard Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 I wouldn't expect something like that any time soon, if at all. Don't forget, MS think a 20Gb (13Gb actual) is more then enough space for the majority of 360 users. 20Gb (13Gb) is more than enough when you dont have to preload approx 4gb of data per game to get acceptable loading times. I dont particularly care about web browsing on any console, my pc does this fine, console browsers arent always compatible with all the latest web standards and plugins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br_ Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Wii has Opera baced browser, PS3 has Firefox based browser. I have no doubt Xbox360 will get its own. no the ps3 has a psp-browser-based-browser. it has no instance of gecko (which is the actual html renderer in firefox and all other mozilla products) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveoc64 Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Why not try and develop one using the Microsoft XNA game studio or what ever the game dev studio is The current version of the XNA Framework on the Xbox 360 doesn't support Networking so you couldn't do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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