You are claiming that the lack of internal storage upgrade options is against your principles. What about those other systems you bought that don't have the same options. Weren't you justifying the Vita's propietary memory cards like, last week?
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You are claiming that the lack of internal storage upgrade options is against your principles. What about those other systems you bought that don't have the same options. Weren't you justifying the Vita's propietary memory cards like, last week?
The most recent console with mass storage had an internal upgradable hard drive. I don't think it's at all unreasonable to expect consoles that follow to do the same and not revert. Hell, maybe Sony will pull the same bullshit, and this upcoming generation will be even cheaper than anticipated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
In terms of the Vita, I think it's well accepted that the memory card prices subsidize the hardware cost. Clearly that may not have been a great decision, based on sales. The portable market has always forced compromise, and the Vita clearly corrected enough of that to make up for one and half issues (the single account nonsense being the half). It's less than ideal, but given the fact that portables as a "species" are likely dying out, it was worth it to me to support the one that finally got the closest to getting it right.
If we were talking about an embarrassingly low gig HD that had no other options then yeah I'd side with you but we don't know how much storage we'll really need for the next consoles to say that it's not enough. 500GB seems decent enough to me so far but that depends on how much storage these games will actually take up.
If it fills up really quick and you have to buy an external then I'd have issues with that but just using my current gen consoles as an example I still haven't used up all of the 250 gigs for both and probably won't for a while.
Honestly this stuff you listed is the least of the console's problems compared to the other potential issues.
The One has non-propietary storage upgrade options so it's really not something to complain about.
Honestly, I think you could lump all of the issues to which both of us are likely referring under the same heading of limiting flexibility and customer choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Will
I think 500GB will be woefully insufficient for someone who chooses this thing as their main platform, especially if the reports of every game being fully installed come to fruition. That's 20 BRDs, and this system will likely have an 8-10 year lifespan.
Unless of course you want optimal transfer rates for your installed games, which in some cases may impact how the game runs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
And in turn I now buy less of them. The circle of life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Personally I think the XO's only real confirmed problem is the 24-hour internet check. Once we have something finalized about how the used game sales will work that might be an issue as well.
It's USB 3.0, so it's way faster than what we had before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Can't you load up games, installs, and DLC off the USB port on 360? That seems to work fine and that is just USB 2.0.
The 360 can't stream from the HDD, because not all of them have one. USB 3.0 is not as fast as eSATA, so you will lose some transfer speed with an external drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
edit: Back to your "just works" comment from earlier, that's highly unlikely too. If there is no format required, you could share one external HDD with multiple devices, and I don't see MS allowing that. It would be too likely to become a backdoor.
Holy shit, this thread is just The Worst. Y'all are 30 year old men taking principled stances against videogame systems.