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Xbox 360 may not always have a hard drive, confirms Allard
Rob Fahey 12:57 15/08/2005
But whether there'll be a model without a drive at all remains to be seen.
Microsoft's forthcoming next-generation console may not always ship in a
configuration with a hard drive, key Xbox executive J Allard has confirmed,
with developers being warned not to rely on the component for their games.
Speaking in the September issue of US magazine Game Informer, Allard said
that the company isn't yet ready to announce details of possible multiple
models of the Xbox 360, with the presence of a hard drive being touted as
one potential difference between models.
"It's something we're not ready to announce yet," he said. "I don't think
it's a one-size-fits-all [approach] over the next five-year horizon."
Allard's comment may also refer to the possibility that Microsoft will begin
shipping Xbox 360 consoles with HD-DVD drives at some point down the line,
replacing the DVD drive which will be present in the original model of the
system.
However, the hard drive is also certainly up for debate, the XNA boss went
on to confirm.
"We've said [to developers], 'Hey look, don't bank on the hard drive always
being there,'" he revealed. "'There may be a scenario in the future where we
don't want to have a hard drive, and in that case, we have to make sure that
the games that you've created are accessible to the broadest possible
audience.'"
However, at present the official line remains that the Xbox 360 will ship
with a hard drive as part of its basic specification - and it seems more
likely that the difference in configuration at launch will be that some
models will ship with a significantly larger hard drive than the 20Gb
baseline.
Developers will have to take into consideration the possibility of no hard
drive being present regardless of what models Microsoft ultimately chooses
to ship, since the drive is a removable module which can be taken out of the
machine by the end user.
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WTF? if Xbox 360 does not always have a HDD, that means developers won't
take advantage of what it can offer, like much faster game loading times
after the inital load. like how Xbox games cached levels.
saving games is not an issue with Xbox 360 because it has internal memory
for that other than the HDD... but the other things, they do matter..
hopefully what Microsoft is planning is not as bad as it sounds.
I am, for the most part, fully supportive of Xbox 360 - I plan to get two
consoles in Nov-Dec... so don't concider this an anti-X360 post like
Blick-Berg-.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=10777
Xbox 360 may not always have a hard drive, confirms Allard
Rob Fahey 12:57 15/08/2005
But whether there'll be a model without a drive at all remains to be seen.
Microsoft's forthcoming next-generation console may not always ship in a
configuration with a hard drive, key Xbox executive J Allard has confirmed,
with developers being warned not to rely on the component for their games.
Speaking in the September issue of US magazine Game Informer, Allard said
that the company isn't yet ready to announce details of possible multiple
models of the Xbox 360, with the presence of a hard drive being touted as
one potential difference between models.
"It's something we're not ready to announce yet," he said. "I don't think
it's a one-size-fits-all [approach] over the next five-year horizon."
Allard's comment may also refer to the possibility that Microsoft will begin
shipping Xbox 360 consoles with HD-DVD drives at some point down the line,
replacing the DVD drive which will be present in the original model of the
system.
However, the hard drive is also certainly up for debate, the XNA boss went
on to confirm.
"We've said [to developers], 'Hey look, don't bank on the hard drive always
being there,'" he revealed. "'There may be a scenario in the future where we
don't want to have a hard drive, and in that case, we have to make sure that
the games that you've created are accessible to the broadest possible
audience.'"
However, at present the official line remains that the Xbox 360 will ship
with a hard drive as part of its basic specification - and it seems more
likely that the difference in configuration at launch will be that some
models will ship with a significantly larger hard drive than the 20Gb
baseline.
Developers will have to take into consideration the possibility of no hard
drive being present regardless of what models Microsoft ultimately chooses
to ship, since the drive is a removable module which can be taken out of the
machine by the end user.
_______________________________________________________________
WTF? if Xbox 360 does not always have a HDD, that means developers won't
take advantage of what it can offer, like much faster game loading times
after the inital load. like how Xbox games cached levels.
saving games is not an issue with Xbox 360 because it has internal memory
for that other than the HDD... but the other things, they do matter..
hopefully what Microsoft is planning is not as bad as it sounds.
I am, for the most part, fully supportive of Xbox 360 - I plan to get two
consoles in Nov-Dec... so don't concider this an anti-X360 post like
Blick-Berg-.
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