360 Price: The Industry Reacts

[Tap In]

I'm pretty sure the licencing fee to Nvidia is tied to the HDD as well.

good point, I was thinking the same thing and could be a small reason for the "core" systems existence.

Why pay Nvidia for EVERY system sold when not eveyone wants/needs/or cares or a HDD or BC.

 

[Joe DeFuria]

I'm pretty damn sure that if they list BC on the box as a feature that the machine WILL play all the top titles out of the box.

Only 10% of users were on live last time, they are going to leave 90% of users out to dry on BC, requireing an internet connection, extra network card, hub, AND a PC in order to get the BC that was promised on teh box? I doubt it.

They are advertising backward compatibility requiring the hard drive. No hard drive=no backward compatibility.

But if you have one, why would you need an internet connection, network card, hub and a PC to get the BC? All you'd need is a memory card to get any EXE or file needed (via kiosk) for any game who's "compatibility profile" (for lack of a better term) is not on the hard drive.

 

[scooby_dooby]

Ya I'm sure that has alot to do with it. (the nvidia royalties)

The answer to this discussion is simple though, if you believe the MS marketing brochures the HDD-less version does not support BC.

joe- i think he's saying that users with HDD will still have to download XBE's to obtain BC. I'm sayin they won't, since MS is advertising BC w/ the HDD, meaning with HDD you won't have to DL anything.

 

[PG2G]

When was it confirmed that they were distributing XBEs? I was under the impression that it was just some sort of profile.

 

[mckmas8808]

Yep if you buy the HDD-less 360 then without a HDD you won't have BC. Its that simple.