RoboticSilence said:
The reason the Xbox is underused is because it only has 64mb of shared video memory.
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Like I said, it doesn't use the full extent of it's power. The console's RAM is poorly used, and it's DDRAM, which is (so I've been told) some of the slowest, clunkiest RAM there is.
The thing is built from off-the-shelf PC parts and runs like a PC laying on it's side. I'm not a huge computer guy, but I know enough to know that PCs and consoles don't operate alike, and trying to force them to do so only prohibits the full potential of the hardware's ability. Microsoft spent as little time developing the thing as possible, and they have paid for it in massive losses during production and lackluster sales numbers.
Just to reiterate my former point, I am
not bashing the XBox or it's game library. I've actually been considering picking one up for a while, but I don't really want to spend nearly 200 bucks on a console with only two or three games that genuinely interest me. I'm simply stating what I've been told about the hardware, and it's not intended to be an attack, just an objective observation.
...however, should the day come that Rare finally decides to release another Banjo-Kazooie game on Microsoft's console, I'll gladly pick one up. That would be the last straw.