people keep bringing up this "360 spec" argument but ill keep saying it,
wheres their confidence for them to have it actually running on a 360 dev kit on actual 360 hardware?
their games 5 months away and i dont think theyve shown it in that fashion once
i_am_interested
The game is in alpha still.
They could have run on the Xbox 360 dev kit, and it probably would have been just fine, but as I posted before(any you completely ignored despite quoting my post)
Lets look at the advantages of showing the Xbox 360 build that was being run on PC.
1: Stability. The game is still in early alpha. Their framerate would have been janky, and the game would have been unstable in general. I mean, it even crashed during the IGN demo. PC version, in general, is going to be more stable. Makes far more sense to demo the most stable build of the game when you are needing to go through hundreds of demos.
2: Ease of setup. Not talking setting up booths, because that isn't anything. I am talking about setting up individual demonstrations. On the PC, moving between the two different gameplay sections of the demo is fast and easy. Works much better than fumbling with Xbox 360 menus to get to the demo.
3: Debugging. They ran into bugs at E3. The PC allows them to handle debugging on-site, immediately. Xbox 360 demo kits would have made that process a lot more time consuming.
They are still showing EXACTLY what the Xbox 360 build will look like because they are using the EXACT config and assets that the Xbox 360 build does. So, the Xbox 360 version looks like that.
There is no reason to run it on the Xbox 360 when they can show what the Xbox 360 version of the game looks like, and what it plays like(Xbox 360 controller), but not have any of the problems of showing a game that is still in early Alpha. The game isn't done yet. Any build they brought was going to have bugs. And the console versions were going to still have framerate problems. So why not show it off in a way that will be most representative of the final product? Why not show off the game so that it is stable and playable, but still shows EXACTLY what the Xbox 360 build of the game will look like?
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