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In Penny Arcade's tour of Bungie, which can be seen here, one picture was of a bunch of stacked up x-box dev-kits (this one). I was just thinking, shouldn't those be in use, or is this a sign that Bungie's next game will be a launch title for the next generation platform(s)? Your thoughts on this matter?

  • 05.17.2012 4:56 PM PDT

They are probably dead. The QA department probably murdered them in the quest for a bug less Bungie title.

  • 05.17.2012 4:57 PM PDT

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No, honestly it makes me think quite the opposite. It means to me that:

A: They don't have the game working properly stable on the XBOX 360 yet(well at least running on 512mb on regular dev kits). This would mean that they just haven't built the engine to work properly on the XBOX 360. Meaning they have a bunch of bug-finding XDK's laying around because they don't have an engine working on it yet.

B: They have way too many dev kits. This would be my best guess.

Bungie probably has more dev kits than any other studio I am aware of, since they were directly under the control of Microsoft, they could pretty much get as many as they want to little or no price. They used them for development, bug finding, and running the Bungie Pro rendering service.

From what I am aware, everyone in the studio has their own XNA Dev kit which has 1GB of RAM compared to the 512mb on a standard XBOX 360, or at least the engineers do.

But I'm 100% they are developing on the XBOX 360. They have a studio filled with XBOX 360 programmers, I guarantee it's being made for it.

  • 05.17.2012 5:11 PM PDT

Interesting thought. It is very possible that you could be correct.

  • 05.17.2012 5:11 PM PDT

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I'm sure Bungie has more that are in use.

  • 05.17.2012 5:12 PM PDT

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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?

  • 05.17.2012 5:15 PM PDT


Posted by: Switchfoot4
B: They have way too many dev kits. This would be my best guess.


This is what I was thinking to. Or maybe they have new 360 kits and those are just out dated.

  • 05.17.2012 5:19 PM PDT

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Maybe their building the new game on some next gen consolde dev kit?

  • 05.17.2012 5:56 PM PDT

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  • 05.17.2012 5:58 PM PDT

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Interesting thought. It is very possible that you could be correct.
Maybe it's because-

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  • 05.17.2012 6:06 PM PDT

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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.

  • 05.17.2012 6:06 PM PDT

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I'm sure they're not all used at the same time.

  • 05.17.2012 6:06 PM PDT

Is this that thread where we make up cockamamy reasons why they aren't in use?

  • 05.17.2012 6:08 PM PDT

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  • 05.17.2012 6:13 PM PDT

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Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
Is this that thread where we make up cockamamy reasons why they aren't in use?
If you would like to prove one of my reasons as incorrect, I'm all ears.

  • 05.17.2012 6:21 PM PDT

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  • 05.17.2012 11:12 PM PDT

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Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
Is this that thread where we make up cockamamy reasons why they aren't in use?

Destiny is going to be on the Wii, I'm calling it.

  • 05.18.2012 8:03 AM PDT


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They all red ringed.

I lol'd

  • 05.18.2012 8:04 AM PDT
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I'm gonna finish it. Just like Jigga did to the pyramid.

I didn't see any PS3 dev-kits. Yahooo! Xbox only


i joke of course.

  • 05.18.2012 8:06 AM PDT

some may have RRoD, but they where with Microsoft, so who knows why. i don't think they are making it for the new systems coming out in a few years. why? how can you make a game for a system if the have not been made yet?

  • 05.18.2012 8:17 AM PDT