Why Microsoft switched from Intel to Power PC for the Xbox 360

Why Microsoft switched from Intel to Power PC for the Xbox 360 | MVG

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3 жыл бұрын

Microsoft and Intel's partnership stems back to the early 80's with MSDOS and Windows. Microsoft would use Intel to power the Original Xbox in 2001. Yet in 2005 with the next generation Xbox 360, they famously split from the chipmaker in favor of IBM and their PowerPC architecture - made famous by Apple and with PowerMac line of computers. In this episode we take a look at why Microsoft dumped Intel for the Xbox 360 game system.
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@KarlBaron 3 жыл бұрын

At the time it was really amusing how Microsoft bought PowerMac G5s in bulk to send out as the original Xbox 360 pre-release devkit

@LambdaCalculus379 3 жыл бұрын

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@evancrazyerror 3 жыл бұрын

Apple in 2005: “We’re moving from PowerPC to Intel”

@joemann7971 3 жыл бұрын

So, Microsoft took a RISC with PowerPC....

@xdevs23 3 жыл бұрын

It's funny that they basically ended up selling the same heat monster to all three competitors.

@mmmlinux 3 жыл бұрын

nintendo: we want a cheap, cool running, fast chip.

@czimmerman86 3 жыл бұрын

RE: The question at the end on how did I feel about the move to PPC? I remember Apple abandoning PPC because of heat, and then when the whole "red ring" thing started happening on the 360, I was like...yep. There's the magic.

@quacc4748 3 жыл бұрын

Thought the first song was familiar. Turns out it's from Touhou 4! Good choice

@NindieNation 3 жыл бұрын

Man. The only E3 I ever went to was 2005, one month after spending my part-time job in college savings on a Dual 2.0GHz PowerMac G5 (it's still running in my house as a media server and RAID...right now). The only next-gen system playable at that E3 was the 360, yet to my surprise, it was nothing more than a bunch of my exact towers. Just felt so cool to be like "I bought this new workstation for music production, but hey, I also apparently bought an Xbox 360 Dev Kit!"

@IrishCarney 3 жыл бұрын

I remember when I was an Apple true believer arguing against Intel fans, advocating for the superior performance of PowerPC RISC chips even though they had lower clock speeds than Intel Pentiums. "Wintel" (Windows and Intel combined) were the enemy. Then not only did Apple leave PowerPC for archenemy Intel, Microsoft left Intel for PowerPC. Boy was I thrown for a loop.

@RandomlyDrumming 3 жыл бұрын

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@reallyboringindividual 3 жыл бұрын

As an ex-IBM employee, this puts a smile on my face.

@punchrockgroin5597 3 жыл бұрын

Seems like a good choice when they were planning the consoles in the early-mid 2000's.

@FloppyDiskMaster 3 жыл бұрын

If you played a 360 as it started to red ring, it had extreme graphical freak outs. To this day, I still have PTSD and assume my console is dying whenever I see a graphical bug in a game, especially on Switch with how hot that thing gets.

@sundhaug92 3 жыл бұрын

One oddity of the Xbox 360 going PowerPC - when Microsoft made the original SDK for the 360, they went to the only major provider of 970-based systems ... Apple, namely the PowerMac G5 (G5 being the Apple name for the 970, and the PowerMac being the forerunner to the Mac Pro)

@tomstorm255 3 жыл бұрын

2005 was such a weird time in the tech world. Microsoft went from Intel to Power PC right when Apple was switching from Power PC to Intel.

@adamcartermi5 3 жыл бұрын

You never mentioned that before a working system was developed. developers were sent a special powerpc based mac to build their games on. Until a working developer kit was ready.

@Minto107 3 жыл бұрын

I love how everyone is abandoning Intel now. These prices are ridiculous

@Waldoe16 2 жыл бұрын

One of the devs at Microsoft had confessed that for the OG xbox, they turned down AMD at the last minute for their cpu and went intel. I wanted to also add that the Gamecube, xbox 360, XSX and PS5 are well built and balanced in general. PS4 and Xbone were unbalanced by the Jaguar arch limiting most games. PS3 was hard to program but very powerful. N64 was an engineering disaster that worked out.

@DehnusNorder 3 жыл бұрын

One small mistake: The CPU wasn't a Celeron when it released, but a slightly stripped P3. It wasn't until Coppermine Celerons that they had the same cache design as the Xbox chip.