{"id":15463,"date":"2011-11-09T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"bleszinski-xbox-360-is-not-dead-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15463-bleszinski-xbox-360-is-not-dead-yet","title":{"rendered":"Bleszinski: Xbox 360 is not dead yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Xbox 360<\/a> turns six this month, making it a cranky, toothless old-timer by console standards – but there’s life in it yet, says Epic Games<\/a>’ Cliff Bleszinski.<\/p>\n

Like that guy on the plague cart in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.<\/p>\n

“With creative programming you can squeeze anything out of any given platform,” he tells Next-Gen.biz. “Go back to the demo scene where these guys would take a 286 PC and in 38k make a demo that rivalled the most triple-A game of the time.<\/p>\n

“It’s just a matter of code magic, time and effort. I don’t know how much longer the 360 will be around, but I’m sure that if we have a product coming out before the end of [its] lifecycle we’ll continue to try and squeeze more water from that stone.”<\/p>\n

He makes a good point there.<\/p>\n

You just have to compare the differences between the three Gears of War games to see how much they’ve managed to squeeze.<\/p>\n

“We’re now at at the point where it’s not learning how to use the hardware, it’s learning to trick the hardware into doing what you want it to do,” he explains.<\/p>\n

“The first thing I was ecstatic about was the new lighting…we’re at the point where an artist can just let the lighting breathe, a nice brick wall can just be a nice brick wall; it doesn’t need 8000 pipes layered on it.”<\/p>\n

Since launching Gears of War 3 in September, Epic Games hasn’t actually officially announced what it’s doing next.<\/p>\n

Source: <\/span>Next-Gen.biz<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Cliff Bleszinski – Xbox 360 still has life<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cCode magic, time, and effort\u201d get the most out of old hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}