XBOX360 Launch Count Down!

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You've got to take a step back and realise that developers are working with just-past-beta development hardware and SDK's. They are also not anywhere near comfortable writing multithreaded applications.

For a developer to make full use of the 360's hardwware will mean a paradigm shift in the way they write code.

The pressure has been immense on these guys to get games ready for launch day, both from M$ and from their publishers. "Hey guys, we need to have a launch-day release so that we can make megabucks" (because they will!).

Things (framerates) will improve. There will be one or two games available on release day that will showcase the 360 and will make you want one. There will be a majority of games that look like arse, such is the inevitability of life.