G5 as Xbox 360 dev kit?

Welcome to last year. Old, old, old news.

Didn't we know that the dev kits were on Macs like a year ago? I don't think that's news. I think the news is the fact that there's a (boring) picture of a sticker.

I like this news, dont listen to them! That picture is rather exciting.

Once again, the bias from you guys. If this were a Sony or Nintendo Dev Kit, you'd be touting the relationship with Apple as an example of their innovation and flexibility.

You make do with what's available, probably much cheaper than building custom prototypes.
It's not the first time Apple machines were used as console development kits. Apple IIGSes were used as dev boxes for Super Nintendos.

What's with you guys? Do a Google on xbox+G5+development and look at all of the year-old articles you find that confirm G5's were used for Xbox 2 game development. Geebus.

umm this is old news. but nice picture.

also theres a spelling mistake on your post "as Engadegt points out,"

It's simply a matter of it being the most readily available platform based on the same or closely related architecture. (Apple's miserable IIGS was handy for Nintendo in that it also used the rather uncommon 65816. Several of my co-workers from the original Cinemaware were saved by the SNES after much wasted investment in IIGS work.) Both Xbox 360 and Sony's Cell deviate greatly in having in-order rather than out-of-order version of the PowerPC architecture. This means the transistor count is cut substantially, allowing a very fast and powerful CPU to go in a affordabel game console but the downside is that the coding requires vastly more optimization by the programmers since the CPU won't do it for them as they've become accustomed to on the PC and Mac as well as current gen consoles.

Microsoft and Apple have a long symbiotic relationship going back to the 70's. The first hardware product Microsoft ever produced was a Z80 card for the Apple II that allowed it to run CP/M software. This was a huge boost for making Apples acceptable in business environments before Visicalc started a revolution.

Great post #8. Right on.

I don't know if Woz is rolling (doubt it), but Jobs would smile and take the check. Having a superior architecture to x86 had to pay off sometime.

There's nothing "supposed" about it. That _is_ the Xbox 2 dev. kit and we've know about it for quite some time.