Ask and Ye Shall Receive

Sorry for the hiatus - lots going on in Xbox-land, what with GDC going on and all our projects are moving ahead full steam regardless of that, too. I was watching G4's Attack of the Show online and someone mentioned that the Xbox team had moved on to other projects. I can assure you the people sitting in the offices around me are still working on keeping Xbox 360 fresh for our customers - new features for Xbox.com, Xbox Live, the console, peripherals and development tools are all under way.

In my previous post, I talked a lot about the current development environment we have for Xbox 360, internally as well as externally. Many people responded to that in the comments crying out for the ability to write games in C# for Xbox 360. By now, it is probably pretty obvious why I didn't answer the questions even though I specifically said I would :)

I'll see if I can get one of the developers on the XNA tools team to give you all more detailed info about both XNA Framework and XNA Build - how they work, what features they have, etc.

And since I know you all have been waiting for it, I am preparing an article for later this week that will cover a lot of info about backwards compatibility. Watch for it after GDC dies down a bit.

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 22, 2006
  I look forward to hearing news on backward compatibility.
  
                                                                         Thanks
• Anonymous
  March 22, 2006
  Interesting; but what, if anything, does this mean for the non professional dev?
• Anonymous
  March 22, 2006
  Great to hear, I love the news. Even though I saw the hints of this in other blogs last week, thanks for posting it here.
  
  Nick
• Anonymous
  March 23, 2006
  G4 Attack of the show is soooo anti microsoft its pathetic..
  
  they just gave Oblivion a "Dont buy" rating..
  
  lol
  
  what tools to the system they are young jedi's...
  
  they are soooo in need of ratings that they will say anything opposite of what the mass media thinks to get attention for ratings...
  
  just like all the other g4 shows that recently disappeared, they will soon as well..
  
  rip
• Anonymous
  March 23, 2006
  drooling over Backward Compatability information
• Anonymous
  March 23, 2006
  Can't wait for the backwards compatibility article.
  
  Hopefully the article comes out with the actual backwards compatibility update. :)
• Anonymous
  March 25, 2006
  If Microsoft opens the xbox 360 with a "Sandbox style c#".. that would be more then just fabulous! This opens the way for democoders and creative artist, to create wonderfull things on the Xbox, while maintaining the Xbox 360 it's security platform.
  
  It voids the need for a lot of coders, to get code running on an "other" way!
  
  I would love to see this c# development kit!
  
  Kind Regards
  Tser
  
  
  
• Anonymous
  March 25, 2006
  I'd like the article :(
• Anonymous
  March 26, 2006
  "And since I know you all have been waiting for it, I am preparing an article for later this week that will cover a lot of info about backwards compatibility.  Watch for it after GDC dies down a bit."
  
  Hate to ask but where is this article :)
• Anonymous
  March 26, 2006
  Yahoooo!  Finally some info on the BC list.  Let me guess, they got pulled to work on Vista?  Sure hope not, but not much I could do about it if they were, haha.  I hope the next release will contain Conker, the Conflict series, and the TimeSplitters series.  Please please?  :-)
• Anonymous
  March 27, 2006
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• Anonymous
  March 27, 2006
  Looking forward to the article on BC.  I've been very curious what labors you guys have to go through to make this stuff work.
• Anonymous
  March 28, 2006
  A comprehensive article on the status of backwards compatability would be most welcome.  Errr.. Which "this week" can we expect that then?  The week of Mar 22nd has come and gone.
• Anonymous
  March 28, 2006
  The blog readers demand news! :)
• Anonymous
  March 28, 2006
  Hi guys. Any sign of that article on BC yet? I'm hoping it comes soon to help lower the flames on the 'endless thread' over in the forums.
  
  Thanks,
  PrawnToast
  
  
• Anonymous
  March 29, 2006
  Funny how the backward compatable list now says "Updated February 2006"  when it still said "Updated December 2005" on March 25th.
• Anonymous
  March 29, 2006
  Chances are you guys probably know this...
  
  http://1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3149106
  
  The Hudson Soft Online marketing manager has stated the possibility of sending Bomberman Saturn Version to XBL!  This will be a great addition to the XBLA library!  I hope you guys will consider it.
• Anonymous
  March 29, 2006
  Thanks for the update, keep up the good work
• Anonymous
  April 05, 2006
  Any chance of developing software that will allow my 360 to play movie files (including avi, xvid and divx) either from disk, streamed over a network (from any windows pc not just media centre) or played from a usb device. One of the main reasons i bought a 360 in the first place was to act as a media hub for my home network and so far (i'm running win 2000) it's been next to useless in that department.
• Anonymous
  April 05, 2006
  Also any chance of a web browser, even the psp has one so it seems a bit odd that the mighty 360 hasn't got one.
• Anonymous
  May 17, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 26, 2006
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• Anonymous
  December 15, 2006
  Hey guys, i have a question.. I wanna play online on my xbox, but if i wanna go online, i need a IP adress. The point is.. i can't go online, i tried everything, but i still can't go online because that inoying IP adress that always says "failed"! I hope you guys can help me out and tell me how to get my IP adress right! Plz tell me! I want online:)