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vaio on 13 July 2009

Xbox 360 Dev Kit with 1GB RAM - Exclusive Pictures

We received exclusive pictures of an Xbox 360 development kit with 1GB of RAM (as opposed to the 512MB found into retail consoles and dev kits until now). It was already rumoured/announced a while ago that new development kits would get 1GB of RAM to give developers more flexibility and use all the power of retail Xbox360s while still running debug tools.

Today we offer you the first pictures of this 'new' device.

While most might expect the extra RAM would just be higher capacity chips on the motherboard, it's not. The extra 512MB comes in the new sidecar. The sidecar is the addon device for dev kits you've probably seen before used for dvd emulation and pix ports.


What you can see on the pictures below is just the 512MB-addon taken from inside the new devkit sidecar and modified/wired to be connected as standalone to a dev kit without the rest of the sidecar.

The dev kit itself is an XNA prototype with jasper-based motherboard and because it has been modified to work with the 512MB-addon without the rest of the sidecar we'll dub it 'Frankie the 1GB XNA' ;) 

 
 
 



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Aion on 13 July 2009

That's good it pisses me off we have to wait till 2015 for a new system. I rather have a new Xbox 360 with signifigant upgrades.



 

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Keep_the_change on 13 July 2009

Aion

You won't need to wait till 2015 for a new Wii that's for shure.
Xmas 2012 and you'll have a new Nintendo console.



cloofoofoo on 13 July 2009
Keep_the_change said:
Aion

You won't need to wait till 2015 for a new Wii that's for shure.
Xmas 2012 and you'll have a new Nintendo console.

What if he(or I for that matter) dont want a nintendo console?



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Aion on 13 July 2009
Keep_the_change said:
Aion

You won't need to wait till 2015 for a new Wii that's for shure.
Xmas 2012 and you'll have a new Nintendo console.

I hated most of Nintendo's console. Im not a fanboy but ill never go Nintendo again. I just want Microsofts next console.



 

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Mvp4eVa on 13 July 2009

A 1gig xbox 360 will do miracles ...



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Mendicate Bias on 13 July 2009

The biggest things holding back graphical development for the 360 have been developers using the unreal engine as a crutch and the problem stated in the op where developers had to use the consoles ram to run their tool kits.

With the new engine specifically tailored for the 360 that MS released and these new 1gb 360 dev kits I'm thinking were going to see some really big graphical developments for future 360 games.

It's going to be interesting how the graphical comparison between the PS3 and the 360 holds up in 2010 and beyond.



                                           

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Steroid on 13 July 2009

Should have done this a while ago. Seems like a no brainer.



ChichiriMuyo on 13 July 2009
Aion said:
That's good it pisses me off we have to wait till 2015 for a new system. I rather have a new Xbox 360 with signifigant upgrades.

The upgrade is for dev kits only, and there's very little chance you'll see a ram increase in your own 360.  The reason they are doing this is because you can't get the full power out of a system if you have to run diagnostic tools in the background.  Basically the only thing that will come of this is slight improvements to the games you play.  This has been done for many other consoles before and has never led to upgrades for any of them except, perhaps, the N64, and even that's arguable.



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sinha on 13 July 2009
Mendicate Bias said:

With the new engine specifically tailored for the 360 that MS released and these new 1gb 360 dev kits I'm thinking were going to see some really big graphical developments for future 360 games.

It's going to be interesting how the graphical comparison between the PS3 and the 360 holds up in 2010 and beyond.

That would be nice...

 



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