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Posted by: edableshoe
I'm sure they are still in development of the game, in a stage that isn't ready to run on the Xbox.
You might be right, but then why would they have those laying around?I know that a majority of the employee's in the studio have the new XNA Dev Kits, I've asked one of the programmers who works there and he said most of the people use them.
The thing that is different about them is they utilize twice the RAM, which gives twice the amount of memory to the CPU and GPU on unified memory architecture. This means that they can use a build that runs on more than 512mb of memory, and then lower that number back to 512mb of memory before they ship the game. TLDR, the XNA kits are better and took the old ones out of service.
But like I said, they probably just have way too many of them. I'm pretty sure the Bungie Pro rendering ran on XDK's, and since they don't do that anymore, they may just have a surplus of XDK's. That or they just aren't bug-finding/game-testing their new game on the XBOX 360 yet.
Also, don't let these pics fool you, they aren't cheap. At a point in time, they cost about $10,000 each. Now, one may cost around $1,000 for one.