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J Allard Interviewed
malchus6 writes "J Allard, one of the Xbox honchos over at Microsoft, spent an hour in an online chat answering questions regarding the upcoming release of the 360 including some pointed questions having to do with the two different price points, no wi-fi inclusion, his opinion on HD-DVD and more..."
i mean seriously it seems like the dumbest move in history, i mean microsoft manages to fit three bugs in a 512k boot rom in the original xbox but to take out the main apeal of the xbox in that every unit has a HD so developers can take full advantage of it, gah, it boggles the mind
hector
Q: Why doesn't wifi work out of the box? A: we worked with game designers and talked to hard core gamers and asked them what their top priorities were and the bulk of our investment went into the silicon to the cpu and the gpu so we would have kick butt games. we had a fixed budget and could not do it all. Since when do the richest bastards on the planet have budget issues when it comes to competing with Sony and Nintendo? Tens of thousands of developers and billions of dollars and everything MS has ever done is crap. Ugh, the irony...
MS released a bundle geared towards less discriminating users, and as such, have created a situation for the game dev to cater to that lowest common denominator?
Right. The average gamer is more savvy than MS and the grandparent post gives them credit for- there's no better way to turn off your most valuable market (I'm guessing teens and 20-something males) than by making your machine something that isn't dedicated 100% for them to play cool games on- it's for suckers, it's for kids, it's for families, it's for people to watch movies or listen to music on, it's to browse the net with, it's an appliance, (and the worst possible, but MS hasn't gone there yet) it's educational.