| malistix1985 said: Xbox360 used the most modern AMD graphics card tech and their main pitch originally was power and when the PS3 came out generally most games ran better on X360 and they used that. |
The Xbox 360's GPU was a unique beast.
It was built around the solid R500 uArch... But then it adopted some aspects from the RV600 series uArch that wouldn't drop untill a year and a half later.
It was actually fairly forward-thinking when compared to Sony or Nintendo. It was also the first console to have Tessellation which was based on technology the PC had during the PS2 (Think: Year 2001) era.
The Xbox 360 released before the Playstation 3 and it was also cheaper... And Halo 4 proved the 360 could hang with the best Playstation 3 had to offer graphically. (Although I wanted to skewer my eyeballs towards the end of the gen.)
I don't think Microsoft could have picked a better GPU for that console generation to be honest.
--::{PC Gaming Master Race}::--
