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J. Allard Responds to Hard Drive Criticism
Edge Online is reporting on responses Xbox 360 platform chief J. Allard gave in response to questions regarding the hard drive on the Xbox 360. From the article: "I don't know who we've let down. There isn't a game on 360 that you can't play without a hard drive, so I think that's a good thing for consumers. We've made a commitment to broadening the audience, and while I think most of our energy here at X05 is about the hardcore, over time we're really setting the stage for making this a bigger category for everybody. So from the developer point of view you have the best tools and the commitment of the most well-resourced company in the world going worldwide with this product and saying that we want to grow the audience. So that seems like a win for developers - I'm not sure who's supposed to be disappointed."
yes...RIGHT NOW there aren't any because they haven't had all that much time to figure out everything they can do with the system.....but now developers have to make sure that their games can be played without a harddrive, so, if every one CAN be played without a harddrive...why do the other people have the harddrive (besides listening to music)??!?
it seems to me that everyone who buys the one with the harddrive will be getting screwed since the harddrive won't really add to the gaming experience....it's like getting a really fast car, but then realizing that since everyone else is going 5mph, you have to go that speed
Yes Timmy, that's the way businesses work outside of your parent's house. Maybe one day you'll grow up and understand.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
J. Allard's "extreme" makeover from (balding gray-haired corpodrone to earring clad, doofus, sweatshirt under the jacket, teenage-style hipster) is one of the saddest and most embarrassing things to come out of corporate America in a long, long time.