We'd heard talk that Turn 10's Forza Motorsport 2 would support up to eight monitors, but Forza community manager and former game journo Che Chou told me that the Xbox 360 sequel would only work with five monitors and five tandem Xboxes. So, it's not overkill.
This clip shows the much-more reasonable four monitor scenario, with a tiny Lilliput LCD screen taking on rearview mirror duties. Honestly, when I played, I didn't once look at it, but I was going up against ghost data, not any real competition. Watch, in this exclusive clip, Wired's Chris Kohler show why he should stick to Mario Kart.






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I think half the reason they do stuff like that is just so they can have it set up in the office and not have to pay for it themselves. If I had that opportunity I sure as hell would.
Well I guess its time to sell my car, house and kidney and get a couple more 360's and 4 extra hdtv's.
At the rate 360's fail, I rather not take a chance of having so many 360's on at once.
Hi Best Buy, I'd like to return these 3 Xbox 360's and 3 LCD TVs that I bought 3 weeks ago. I'll be keeping the wireless racing wheel and copies of Forza that are on the same receipt. Coincidentally, my friend over there is looking for 3 Xbox 360s...
The Joystiq guys are better drivers than you guys. Hehhe.
It's setups like this that make me beg the question: When the hell are they gonna invent borderless monitors? At the very least, get rid of it on the left and right sides so setups like this don't look so crappy.
What is the monitor and how are that doing that for the mirror?
Is that a fourth screen on a fourth xbox or a USB screen?
Who's voice is that in the background? I swear I recognize it.
You need one Xbox 360 per screen, you connect them all through the system link feature. You can have up to 8 screens connected at once. This was talked about on 1UP.
There will be that ONE guy who does this, so that's at least 7-8 Xbox 360's and the racing wheel sold for Microsoft.
the guy in the background asking the questions sounds like Adam Sandler
Why I do believe that's Hilary from IGN speaking in the background. That guy cracks me up on their weekly podcasts.
oh I am so gonna do this in a few years, when the xbox is outdated and cheap.
Beautiful.
video dead
sad times! dead video!!!!!
DAMN YOU YOUTUBE!
Crap. Any mirrors?
Why would this video die? Need new link.
Yip, please repost a the vid ;-)
@Karttikeya: 5 Screens! You can only have five screens connected at once, as stated in the above post.
I recon 5 is a pretty odd number though, 4 would be enough.
Oh, wait... now that I think about it, what's wrong with one?
Lol, if only I were rich.
@dnzperson: its going to be 5 in retail, but supposedly they have it working with 8 on their test systems. For whatever reason, who knows...
This is extremely cool, and I would love to have a setup like this, but I think they are just wasting time and money by implementing this.
I mean seriously, how many people out there are have 5 360's and 5 HDTV's?
I absolutely love the idea honestly, especially if I have to turn around and look at two monitors behind me to see behind my car. But I can't even afford a 360 or HDTV right now.
I'm not a racing sim fan myself, but I could see a small subgroup of people taking it very seriously. It's akin to buying the cockpit for flight sims - some people are willing to pay for that immersion experience.
@d0x - so you're going to sell your car...to buy a car simulator...Okay...
:)
I find paying $3000 to play a car simulator to be a dumb waste of money. That could buy you one really big HDTV. That could buy you a great dolby system. That could buy you the best gaming rig and two monitors. Any of those options are better than this. Waste of development.
Doesn't seem absolutely crazy when you think about it. Buy 2 additional core systems for 5 or $600 bucks on line. Instead of using 40" plasma tvs buy 2 or 3 22 inch LDC pc monitors for say $1,500.00. This seems comparable to the cost of a high end DX10 enabled PC gaming rig.
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