Oh, I agree wholeheartedly, but I'm just saying that there is potential for
limitedDLC with just the memory cards. Will it suck compared to a HD? Hell yeah. But the option will be there in some respects. Not all DLC will be a full map for a game. At GDC, J Allard was pushing the fact that the next gen Xbox Live will feature a "market place" where developers and users can sell custom content. Could be something as simple as a tattoo for a fighting game character. Fuzzy dice for your car. A new map created using an in-game map editor. Those types of things could be very small compared to the size of the map file for Containment, for example. Custom maps from something like, say, Pariah, could potentially be relatively small, because they won't contain any new textures or objects. In theory, the map file for a custom map could just be an XML file detailing what models, landscapes and textures to show in the game, referencing data off the DVD. Those types of things could open up games a bit via DLC, even if you don't have a HD.
Granted, this is assuming that developers create DLC that is relatively small in size. I agree that DLC via a memory card will be tremendously limited compared to the HD model, but I'm just saying that users won't be entirely cut off from DLC. Just from a lot of the good stuff.
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