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    But Andy McNamara, editor in chief of Game Informer, a monthly magazine that covers the video game industry, noted that for all the concern about console capacity, many gamers are still playing on ordinary television sets.

    "I love Xbox," he said. "I love all the things Xbox can bring, but how many people have high-definition televisions?"

    Referring to the protagonist in The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, an Xbox game expected soon from Vivendi Universal, he added: "Riddick is going to have a lot of detail. But he's going to spend a lot of time in the dark. With a bad TV image, all those grays are going to turn into nothing but blacks, and all the grays are going to be blacks."

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