4th January 2006, 9:43 PM
My word...
They did GREAT with the XBox design, they simply integrated all the things that otherwise would have been add-ons directly into the system and never bothered releasing add-ons for it (aside from custom controllers some games had).
It seems they have decided good design just wasn't their style...
In the end, I think a few games may support it but it won't take off. I really don't see anyone actually being interested in this. They will need to be motivated to buy it.
What advantage does this give? Superior texture storage? PC games are still using CD-ROMS last I checked and they seem to be doing fine with high resolution textures (they should at least be moving on to DVD though, that I've been saying for a while, I'm sick of buying games that come on 5 CDs).
So, MS, you went and pulled a Sega... Oh well, we'll see how this turns out.
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They did GREAT with the XBox design, they simply integrated all the things that otherwise would have been add-ons directly into the system and never bothered releasing add-ons for it (aside from custom controllers some games had).
It seems they have decided good design just wasn't their style...
In the end, I think a few games may support it but it won't take off. I really don't see anyone actually being interested in this. They will need to be motivated to buy it.
What advantage does this give? Superior texture storage? PC games are still using CD-ROMS last I checked and they seem to be doing fine with high resolution textures (they should at least be moving on to DVD though, that I've been saying for a while, I'm sick of buying games that come on 5 CDs).
So, MS, you went and pulled a Sega... Oh well, we'll see how this turns out.
And now, a word from our sponsors...
http://khanvaderagony.ytmnd.com/
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)