Jodwin
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Quasar said:
Heh. Reminds me of when Nintendo was touting the Ultra 64 at E3 by showing Cruis'n USA and Killer Instinct. These turned out to be pretty much the arcade versions of the games that they were showing.
But the fun didn't stop there. One intrepid reporter managed to pull up the table skirt for a moment, long enough to see quite plainly that the hardware running the games was a generic Silicon Graphics Indigo workstation.
I mean the console was supposedly a year or less from release, by my recollection, and it was apparently still complete vaporware.
Well, running the show from a PC makes a lot of sense: The system itself still probably isn't ready to manufacture, so why endanger your big day on a possible hardware or software failure, when you could use a more trustworthy development platform instead? Especially when your event is being streamed online in real time with hundreds of thousands of viewers, you really want to avoid any possible problems. Of course, if that also comes with more processing power to display better graphics...even better. ;)
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02-22-13 23:50 
