Certain 360 games to require HDD??

[infinity4]

MS really couldn't put HDD imo. if they did they would have technically benefited, but then in business sense the sales would have been poor, leading to less softwares. MS just had to do this to penetrate into the market.

but if they give an option of usb ext hdd install, it would be great. no more disc scratchings!

 

[Nesh]

Some slides from Gamefest 2007

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3161942

Streaming assets from a remote server is a pretty interesting idea.

Can someone explain me what do they mean by "expect some teething pains"?

 

[assen]

Can someone explain me what do they mean by "expect some teething pains"?

Don't use it if you are shipping soon, it will be buggy at first.

 

[Gubbi]

I really wouldn't like to sit down for 3 hours waiting for an install of 20+GBs of Oblivion 2 to finish before I could even play..

With a 12x DVD drive it would take on the order of 5-10 minutes per DVD.

Cheers

 

[Titanio]

Doesn't look to be so MMO-only..

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3162176

Following a demo presentation at Games Convention in Germany today, Gearbox president Randy Pitchford confirmed to 1UP that Borderlands -- his upcoming "Indiana Jones meets Mad Max" sci-fi four-player co-op first-person shooter -- will require a hard drive if players choose to play it on Xbox 360.

 

[assen]

Because of the way the game procedurally generates everything from weapons to armor, Borderlands has different requirements from typical first-person shooters.

Bull bull bull. I hope Microsoft get medieval on their collective developers behinds for this. If they need to procedurally generate weapons or armor, let them please generate several combinations off-line and ship them on the DVD. Then use the canned ones on Cores and generate away on the DVD of Premiums and Elites - this would be an example of the allowed degradation of game experience for non-HDD consoles.

 

[mjdted]

Oh It works now. Anyway, it's been confirmed by the lead programmer that Borderlands won't need a hard drive to work on 360.

Borderlands will NOT require a hard drive on Xbox 360