Yikes. Something about these guys still strikes me as off... they just don't quite get it. They'll never be #1 with statements like "the notion that there might some day be other configuration is eminently possible. Its a little bit like the discussion about HD DVD type storage. Will we have it? Sure. Its not like by the next generation there wont be a way to get massive storage on an Xbox."
Ok, it's all well and good to have an HD-DVD or BD drive on the Xbox 360, but you know what? If it's going to have it, *it has to have it day one*. This is not something you can add. This is not something you can say "if you bought a system in 2005, and now you buy a 360 game in 2007, you had better make sure your game is not on an HD-DVD game disc or it won't work". That is PC-centric crap, and that is exactly why people play games on consoles in the first place, to get away from forced upgrades and incompatibilities.
Statements like that make me not want to buy an Xbox 360 until it's basically obsolete. It makes me want to wait until I know they're done upgrading.
One thing that I thought was interesting:
"Sonys going to outperform us in Japan."
Well, at least they're not delusional. Kinda strikes me as odd that they'd actually say this, though, after the last story we read here (about them designing the system specifically to appeal to the Japanese). They're not setting their sights very high there this time, it sounds like.
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Jeff @ Dec 19th 2005 12:15AM
Yikes. Something about these guys still strikes me as off... they just don't quite get it. They'll never be #1 with statements like "the notion that there might some day be other configuration is eminently possible. Its a little bit like the discussion about HD DVD type storage. Will we have it? Sure. Its not like by the next generation there wont be a way to get massive storage on an Xbox."
Ok, it's all well and good to have an HD-DVD or BD drive on the Xbox 360, but you know what? If it's going to have it, *it has to have it day one*. This is not something you can add. This is not something you can say "if you bought a system in 2005, and now you buy a 360 game in 2007, you had better make sure your game is not on an HD-DVD game disc or it won't work". That is PC-centric crap, and that is exactly why people play games on consoles in the first place, to get away from forced upgrades and incompatibilities.
Statements like that make me not want to buy an Xbox 360 until it's basically obsolete. It makes me want to wait until I know they're done upgrading.
One thing that I thought was interesting:
"Sonys going to outperform us in Japan."
Well, at least they're not delusional. Kinda strikes me as odd that they'd actually say this, though, after the last story we read here (about them designing the system specifically to appeal to the Japanese). They're not setting their sights very high there this time, it sounds like.