May 26, 2006

April showers bring…

…May updates?  Man, that’s rough material.  Anywho, Joystiq (and most of the rest of the World Wide Web of Gaming) has posted a story about the new Spring Update for the 360.  I posted an article awhile back about some of the things that I wanted Microsoft to update, and I’ll update it with the things they’ve added/enhanced.

This is a HUGE boost for the folks in Redmond, and I am wildly impressed by their attention to the fans.  There are still a few things that would catapult the Xbox 360 to stardom in my mind, but this is a great step forward.  To be honest, even Sony (not my favorite uncle) has been pretty good in this regard, and the console hasn’t even launched.  This kind of fan-base attention is the stuff I love to see, and it makes me happy I sat in line for 12 hours in freezing rain in the middle of Delaware for my system…OK, it’s true, that still blew, but this is still nothing but great stuff.  Keep it up, gents!

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[...] Beyond the current offerings, both Sony and Microsoft agree that digital distribution is the future.  Perhaps a frustration I currently experience is that neither of their consoles offer a viable solution for this.  The main concern here is storage space.  Microsoft has seen fit to offer a somewhat anemic 20GB hard drive with the Xbox 360, easily one of the weakest parts of the console.  (As a side note, the almost snobbish independence from the hard drive as an integral piece of the gaming puzzle offends me and manifests itself as the only other real complaint from this blatent Xbox 360 Fanboy)  The Internet is "en fuego" with stories of 360 owners filling up their hard drives (this is happening all the more with the recent Dashboard update, distributed digitally via Xbox Live); it wouldn’t be so bad if you could offload this content to an external USB 2.0 drive, but Microsoft does not allow most types of content to exist there, especially the big stuff like videos and demos!  Interesting choice, guys…maybe you can drop us a supersized drive around X-mas, maybe? [...]

Pingback by Interscription » Blog Archive » Digital Distribution — June 13, 2006 @ 6:08 pm

The 20gb HDD was a huge mistake by Microsoft and a complete rip-off at their current pricing. When they release a new game on XBLA every week, this thing could easily fill up by XBLA games alone, and at some point people are going to have to decide whether or not to keep their games they’ve paid for or not.

And as for demos/videos, obviously MS doesn’t feel those are worthy of saving after you’ve played them, because with a 20gb limit those just have to be transitory, no question about it. I have about 5 or 6 demos at a time on there and I just delete the ones I’ve played.

Sony, on the other hand, is doing their HDD the best way, by making it an industry standard HDD, you will be able to slap a 400gb drive in there if you want to. That’s smart, very smart, but at $600 I’ll probably still be waiting until 2008 or so before I get one. There’s got to be a ton of good games for it before I’ll bite.

Maybe next year MS will sell us a 100gb drive for $200! Wooo hooo!! :P (yes, that is bitter sarcasm you hear in my voice)

Comment by virtuadept — September 22, 2006 @ 9:34 am

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