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Xbox360: First game only with Harddisc playable

Haleon said:
They may use it, but I don't any last-gen game truly needed it. The downside seems to be slightly longer load times.
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it's all exponential:
Large textures and mapping effects couldn't be put in the 64MB of the xbox, so the devs used the swap partitions of the xbox HDD to retrieve them on the fly without any loading. in a few years the textures and other data will be bigger and the 512MB of the X360 will not be enough.
 
Master of the Melee said:
The xbox 360 needs a HDD or HD DVD because all games are in Hi Def and that means that all textures are going to be bigger, meaning the graphics will take up already four times as much disk space in most cases. The Rev, with its smaller custom DVDs, are technically bigger since Nintendo has banned HDTV. Sony is unaffected with blu ray.

The fact that the 360 does not have that means it has a hardware liability, one that may be abandoned in just a few months given the outcry towards Microsoft coming in at all sides.
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Whatchoo talkin 'bout Willis
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op_ivy said:
surely you can play it, just not save.... right?
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Na, it needs to cache the player/team data as you play, because its not actually stored on the disc, its generated when you start a game, then everything changes due to training/transfers/results etc. (Unless the 360 version is different).



Im not sure if it could work very well (in its current form) on memory stick...there is a PSP version coming but its severly gimped so its probably not a good measure.
 
Jerkface said:
Pretty expensive compared to the 360 HDD eh? :)
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Let's compare PS3 HDDs to X360 HDDs ;)

They're about 10 times cheaper than 360 memory cards. The 512MB stick is in absolute terms cheaper too (about $35 I think), and could store 5 saves for this game (but yes, caching may present further requirements).
 
gofreak said:
Let's compare PS3 HDDs to X360 HDDs ;)

They're about 10 times cheaper than 360 memory cards. The 512MB stick is in absolute terms cheaper too (about $35 I think), and could store 5 saves for this game (but yes, caching may present further requirements).
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I was just having a dig at monkeymagic for his retarded contribution but I'd rather not have 1/5 of my card taken up by one save! Microsoft do need to rethink their Memory Card strategy though I agree, I think they are just fearful of using existing formats and opening up exploits.
 
ram said:
football manager 2006 - maybe not a triple A game, but will we see other games, that requiere the hadrdisc to be playable in the future? whats next, games only playbale with hd-dvd drive?
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Not an AAA game?

NOT AN AAA GAME?!?!

BLASPHEMY MOST FOUL! BRING THE TORCHES !
 
AdmiralViscen said:
Let's compare the prices of the Network Adapter to prices for the Hard Drive. And like you said, PS2's started getting bundled with the Adapter pretty quickly.
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See the difference is the HDD has value, where as with the Network Adapter it was questionable cause of support. HDD is a big memory card, you can DL Live Arcade games, demos, and other content. Eventually any avid Xbox owner will benefit from having the HDD and HDD only games are only another reason. I don't really care about HDD only games cause I'll have a HDD, they don't call it the Tard pack for nothign afterall.
 
D3VI0US said:
See the difference is the HDD has value, where as with the Network Adapter it was questionable cause of support. HDD is a big memory card, you can DL Live Arcade games, demos, and other content. Eventually any avid Xbox own will benefit from owning the HDD and HDD only games are only another reason. I don't really care about HDD only games cause I'll have a HDD, they don't call it the Tard pack for nothign afterall.
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While all that is 100% true, the cost/size ratio is way fucking off base.

Then again, memory cards in general has always been absolute rape.
 
Jerkface said:
What's the price per megabyte on those by the way?
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Just like most normal consumers I don't care to calculate the price per megabyte - I'd just want the game to work for as little investment as possible.

In that regard:

- 512MB stick - $35
- 1GB stick - $70
- 13GB X360 HDD $100

Of course consumers are more likely to already own a 512MB or 1GB stick than they are an XBox HDD not to mention mem stick prices will have dropped by the time PS3 launches.
 
At this point if I was MS, i'd make the HDD pack standard now, and offer those who bought a core to a free first party game of their choice.. but that's just what I would do.
 
Suikoguy said:
At this point if I was MS, i'd make the HDD pack standard now, and offer those who bought a core to a free first party game of their choice.. but that's just what I would do.
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PROFITABILITY > CONSUMER TRUST + MARKET SHARE.

The 360 mantra.
 
monkeymagic said:
- 13GB X360 HDD $100
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I thought it was 20 gigs.

Also for all those saying they should bundle the HDD, no point now the damage is done and bundling the HDD doesn't allow them to loss lead and undercut Sony early on as it adds to the cost of the system.
 
D3VI0US said:
I thought it was 20 gigs.

Also for all those saying they should bundle the HDD, no point now the damage is done and bundling the HDD doesn't allow them to loss lead and undercut Sony early on as it adds to the cost of the system.
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13 useable gigs.

The damage isn't necessarily done. Don't Core packages account for less than 50% of sales? That's only a few hundred thousand units in each region. If they cut the Core now, in a year or two the percentage of Core packages on the market would be very, very low. The longer the Core sticks around, the more screwed they are later on.

I don't see why you think they can't loss lead with the HDD. The Premium pack is 400 dollars today. It can be cheaper in 11 months.
 
D3VI0US said:
I thought it was 20 gigs.

Also for all those saying they should bundle the HDD, no point now the damage is done and bundling the HDD doesn't allow them to loss lead and undercut Sony early on as it adds to the cost of the system.
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7 Gigs are "Reserved" for god knows what
 
It is techincally 20 gigs, but 7 gigs are used up by "phantom" data somehow (supposedly) relating to their totally shitty backwards compatibility. You can't access it no matter how hard you try. So, effectively, you have a 13 GB HD.
 
If they don't axe the core system... it will eventually dominate sales. Right now, the "hardcore"-ish are buying. Of course they won't touch a core. Though there was one mom that specifically was asking which line she needed to wait in for the "cheapest version." She was there in plenty of time to get a premium. There will be lots of people like this once the initial craze is gone.
 
Suikoguy said:
7 Gigs are "Reserved" for god knows what
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Cache, system/game updates, BC emulator + cache for BC games. Oh and secret Microsoft spyware and malicious trojans that will destroy your home entertainment system.
 
MS is horrible at keeping comittments. Absolutely the worst.

All games rendered at 1280x720? No.
All games will be required to use FSAA? No.
All games except MMO games can be played without the hard drive? No.

These are the three that stick out for me.
 
Last Hope said:
MS is horrible at keeping comittments. Absolutely the worst.

All games rendered at 1280x720? No.
All games will be required to use FSAA? No.

These are the three that stick out for me.
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Show me a game that is out that doesn't use any AA.
And about the 1280x720, I don't think there is any real proof that PGR3 doesn't render at that resolution.
 
As a HDD owner I have no issues with this. If you want this or any of the new games that require it, man up on an HDD. It was called the retard pack for a reason.

IMO this is just the opening of the floodgates, to make way for other games Like Gears of War to run correctly on the system with no compromises.
 
hadareud said:
Show me a game that is out that doesn't use any AA.
And about the 1280x720, I don't think there is any real proof that PGR3 doesn't render at that resolution.
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Framebuffer grabs, silly.
 
hadareud said:
And about the 1280x720, I don't think there is any real proof that PGR3 doesn't render at that resolution.
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Um, I'd say the various native screenbuffer screenshots from folks like BlimBlim, plus the deafining silence and refusals to answer from Bizarre when asked about it, is just about all the proof a rational person needs.

That said, it's all silly. MS never said anything about internal rendering resolution AFAIK, and nobody really seems to notice the reduced resolution until they know it is there. Overall image quality has a lot more factors than framebuffer resolution.

Can somebody show the quote where MS said there will never, ever be a game that requires a hard drive except for MMO? Who made the quote and what was the exact text?

krypt0nian said:
As a HDD owner I have no issues with this. If you want this or any of the new games that require it, man up on an HDD. It was called the retard pack for a reason.
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I'm sure the haters fall into exactly 3 categories:

1) People who don't own 360.
2) Viral marketing plants.
3) Retards.

Normal, unbiased gamers won't give a crap about this.
 
hadareud said:
Show me a game that is out that doesn't use any AA.
And about the 1280x720, I don't think there is any real proof that PGR3 doesn't render at that resolution.
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PGR3 doesn't use AA, it runs at 600p and it doesn't even have AF (no X360 titles do ATM). Inexcusable.
 
I don't see what the big to-do is about this. I thought most people around here either got the premium or bought a hard drive. Now we're complaining that a game exists that requires it? *boggles*
 
I remember people were bitching about MS forcing everyone to render their games at 1280x720.. Then came PGR3 wich renders at a lower resolution in favor of the engine not utilizing tiling and people still bitched. I also remember people bitching about games not taking advantage of the HDD.. and now we have a game that completely takes advantage of it and we still see people bitching. Sad thing is that the people of the two camps are the same people.. So conclusion is that they bitch for the sake of bitching. If it annoys you that much like the guy who had suicidial thoughts because of some sale chart numbers(ohh no PSP was outselling DS in UK!), I recommend you to switch hobby.. It isnt for you. You arent ready for it...
 
Jerkface said:
:lol How many saves is that and at what kind of level of depth?
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21 saves, biggest save is 250mb, with a huge database size set..
that said, I couldn't think of playing FM on anything other than a PC though. PC FTW in this case!
 
thorns said:
21 saves, biggest save is 250mb, with a huge database size set..
that said, I couldn't think of playing FM on anything other than a PC though. PC FTW in this case!
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Wow, and I thought that KoTOR and morrowind had massive save files
 
AdmiralViscen said:
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I really, really, really want 360 to be a strong competitor to the PS3, but I'm really starting to get worried. They had better drop the Core pack this year. The boosted profits they get from charging a hundred bucks for a 20gig hard drive is going to kill them in the long run.

I don't know why MS went from total lack of concern for profitability for 4 years, to such a ridiculous expectation of immediate profitibility today. They are going to cripple themselves with this bullshit.
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Yyyyyyup
 
Master of the Melee said:
The xbox 360 needs a HDD or HD DVD because all games are in Hi Def and that means that all textures are going to be bigger, meaning the graphics will take up already four times as much disk space in most cases. The Rev, with its smaller custom DVDs, are technically bigger since Nintendo has banned HDTV. Sony is unaffected with blu ray.

The fact that the 360 does not have that means it has a hardware liability, one that may be abandoned in just a few months given the outcry towards Microsoft coming in at all sides.
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:lol :lol ....save it for the school yard junior......
 
_leech_ said:
Allard said: “I don’t know who we’ve let down. There isn’t a game on 360 that you can’t play without a hard drive, so I think that’s a good thing for consumers.

PWN3D.
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I dunno who's pwned, since nobody said it never happened. I just wanted to see the specifics.

Note that he didn't say there never would be such a game. Should he have shut his mouth? You bet. But all along we've all known that there would be at least MMO at some point that would require HDD. Mock outrage is disingenous.
 
beermonkey@tehbias said:
I dunno who's pwned, since nobody said it never happened. I just wanted to see the specifics.

Note that he didn't say there never would be such a game. Should he have shut his mouth? You bet. But all along we've all known that there would be at least MMO at some point that would require HDD. Mock outrage is disingenous.
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Well, he said it was a good thing for customers that there was no split. Now there's a split. That's a bad thing, then, right?
 
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