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March 3rd, 2008 @ 17:09
According to this, Bourne Conspiracy’s lead game designer, Rory McGuire, thinks all Xbox 360s should have been sold with proper storage space.
I think that was one of the mistakes that Microsoft made with the 360,” he said.
He added, :They did it with the original Xbox. I’m not sure why they decided to not require a hard drive on the 360. From what I understand they don’t move many [Core/Arcade] units. Developers certainly benefit [from a hard drive]. If you have a hard drive, the whole game loads faster. Obviously you’ll be facing a short install time, but the developer benefits from it and you definitely benefit from it as a player.”
Bourne Conspiracy is out later this year for PS3 and 360.
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March 4th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Yes, I agree. Next!
March 4th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Me too. I never understood it.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:04 am
I suspect they fully expected Sony to make theirs optional. As did the rest of us.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:05 am
And they wanted to keep costs down in the early days.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:13 am
I agree that (for me) it felt like a mistake, or at least a backwards step. Given the supposed ‘hardcore/spendy’ nature of their expected audience a cheaper version doesn’t really tally up…
March 4th, 2008 at 10:18 am
I’d be very interested to see how many people actual have machines without HDs. That’s not the sort of figure they’re too keen to give out, unfortunately.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Yes, I’d like to know that too. But like you say, it’s one of the “hidden stats”, like how many Gold XBL users there are compared to Silver.
Ultimately I think it was short-sighted. Short-term gain at the expense of long-term flexibility.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:29 am
“Yes, I’d like to know that too. But like you say, it’s one of the “hidden stats”, like how many Gold XBL users there are compared to Silver.”
Or the actual failure rate
March 4th, 2008 at 10:30 am
I think the biggest mistake is that some developers are now forced to not support the Core system, such as Criterion. That’s bad press for no reason, really.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:31 am
We’ll never know the failure rate
March 4th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I think we can probably guess it ourselves, though. 35-40%ish looks about right to me.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:42 am
I don’t reckon it’s that high. That really would be mental. Even 20% would be insane, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was around there.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:45 am
My brain tells me that it can’t be as high as 30%, but my experience of the last two years of permanent forum residency points out that I know of far, far more people who’ve had at least one broken 360 than people who haven’t had any problems.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:49 am
I do know a huge amount of people it’s happened to, it’s true. I think Kristan’s been through four or five of them. I’ve never had a problem, though.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Yeah, I know we always view a very skewed section of the market but it’s got to be high nonetheless