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[MidgarBlowedUp]

Back to the HDD.

I was thinking, since Square released FFXI with a 40GB HDD for about $100 couldn't Sony just wait and just release one of their games with a small HDD?

You know, something like Killzone 2 could cost about $50~$60 and come with a little 10GB drive for downloading maps and other functions. Should cost much to package a 10GB drive by 2006~07 should it?

 

[jimbo]

Yeah they probably could and I can actually see them doing that as they have already done it and were fairly successfull with it this gen. But just like this gen, not everyone's going to buy it and most developers will never take advantage of it.

What they could do is just release a PS3 with a HD included a year after it launches when manufacturing prices go down, kind of what like they did with the Dual Shock on PSX and just more or less force the remainder of your early adopters to go out and either buy a game/HD bundle like what you're saying or buy the HD separately...or they're going to be shit out of luck on some games. It would make a lot of people unhappy so I HIGHLY doubt it but it would get all the developers on board to support it. Sony are the only ones that were able to pull something like this off though.


What would be funny is if Nintendo's Revolution's controller is so innovative that both MS and Sony would have to do what Sony did with the Playstation controller.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Even if they bundle it with something like GTA on the PS3, it won't get widespread developer support. As huge as the GTA games are, they still only hit about 25% of the PS2 installed base. That's a far cry from knowing that every system ower has one. I think it's going to be a very steep uphill climb to get developer support on the HD, as evidenced by Oblivion disappearing from the PS3 alltogether.

 

[CrimsonSkies]

It's like you're having an argument with yourself!

But the key difference you have to understand is I'm reacting to the article which the link was posted from and giving my one or two sentence response that doesn't try to pretend I know technical things about the consoles. I'm just assuming that 6 months isn't that much of a difference when it comes to power since both consoles appear to lean heavily on their GPUs. Very big difference there Mr. SonyBot . Also I'm quite open to the possiblity that I could be wrong *gasp*. :lol

 

[Amir0x]

But the key difference you have to understand is I'm reacting to the article which the link was posted from and giving my one or two sentence response that doesn't try to pretend I know technical things about the consoles. I'm just assuming that 6 months isn't that much of a difference when it comes to power since both consoles appear to lean heavily on their GPUs. Very big difference there Mr. SonyBot . Also I'm quite open to the possiblity that I could be wrong *gasp*. :lol

Now now, Crimsonskies. You know better than to call people [Anything]Bot!

 

[wazoo]

Even if they bundle it with something like GTA on the PS3, it won't get widespread developer support. As huge as the GTA games are, they still only hit about 25% of the PS2 installed base.

12M out of 90M is not 25%

 

[pestul]

If Nintendo wanted early mindset with Revolution, perhaps they could go with a very fast single core solution (should be much cheaper than multi), and this would show in 1st/2nd gen titles. Probably be able to carry them the rest of the way when devs start adopting multi-core, although throwing a wrench into 3rd party cross-platform titles. Unfortunately, this is likely not the case given interviews. :/

 

[DCharlie]

"I don't write medical software, I don't work with computers outside of simulations"

... you only work with computers inside simulations!?

what does the simulation run on???

 

[nitewulf]

Ok, as with your earlier examples, anytime you talk of something that's requires a static state over time (eg. snow tracks)

dynamic states, surely.