Xbox Harddrive
I love the hard drive. With my PS2, I kept running into the storage barrier, having to either delete game saves or buy more memory cards in order to maintain paranoid level save patterns (where you create a new save game every ten minutes). And I'm very happy to see that the 360 will also have a hard drive, and bigger too!
And it'll be removable!
Except for one small problem: I think the hard drive is too big.
Its no secret that Microsoft was losing money on each Xbox sold, and a lot of that had to do with the hard drive bumping up the cost significantly. But the whole point of the hard drive was not to keep game saves, rather to allow users to use Xbox live and download lots of content easy.
Its an excellent move. Halo 2 just got a large boost thanks to new maps and a balance patch that totally reshaped game play, mostly by making grenades godly. The PS2 can't really do that. The newer, slimmer PS2 doesn't support the hard drive that came with FFXI, and its sorta shown with the general consensus of the gaming public saying that Xbox Live is the better online system.
One element in many, but an important one to say the least.
Only, I have had my Xbox for almost a year and a half. I've downloaded a lot of content, and saved a LOT of games. I mean a lot.
And, yet, I still have the infamous "50,000+ Blocks" statement on my memory information.
And Microsoft is going to double the storage space.
Sorry, but this is a little overkill. Almost no one has ever needed all of the disc, and unless they're expecting for there to be a ton of content downloads, they're going to be losing even more money on the units than they really should.
Well, either that or that's the cheapest hard drives that Microsoft could buy in bulk.
Probably that.
And it'll be removable!
Except for one small problem: I think the hard drive is too big.
Its no secret that Microsoft was losing money on each Xbox sold, and a lot of that had to do with the hard drive bumping up the cost significantly. But the whole point of the hard drive was not to keep game saves, rather to allow users to use Xbox live and download lots of content easy.
Its an excellent move. Halo 2 just got a large boost thanks to new maps and a balance patch that totally reshaped game play, mostly by making grenades godly. The PS2 can't really do that. The newer, slimmer PS2 doesn't support the hard drive that came with FFXI, and its sorta shown with the general consensus of the gaming public saying that Xbox Live is the better online system.
One element in many, but an important one to say the least.
Only, I have had my Xbox for almost a year and a half. I've downloaded a lot of content, and saved a LOT of games. I mean a lot.
And, yet, I still have the infamous "50,000+ Blocks" statement on my memory information.
And Microsoft is going to double the storage space.
Sorry, but this is a little overkill. Almost no one has ever needed all of the disc, and unless they're expecting for there to be a ton of content downloads, they're going to be losing even more money on the units than they really should.
Well, either that or that's the cheapest hard drives that Microsoft could buy in bulk.
Probably that.
posted by Wraithy at 5/15/2005 09:39:00 AM
1 Comments:
If you think that XBox 360 is a game machine, then, yeah, 20 GB is awfully big. But if you think that it's meant to be Microsoft's first serious step towards a console that manages all your media -- games of course, but also movies, music, tv, images -- then 20 GB isn't very big at all. In fact, some day you might appreciate the fact that you can replace it with a bigger one. Games are an interesting business to be in, and there's more than a little money to be made there, but it's nothing compared to owning the living room.
(But you're right about the bulk-purchase matter -- it's getting hard to find drives much smaller than 20GB.)
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