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J. Allard Responds to Hard Drive Criticism

Posted by Zonk on from the we're-right-how-dare-you-suggest-otherwise dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Guess he doesn't know his own product... by Rs_Conqueror · · Score: 1, Troll
    FTA:: We can either ask the gamer to pay for it, pay for it ourselves, or prove that there's enough value in it and have the gamer say 'I want to pay for it' - I think that's the right model.

    Stick it to the customer, very microsoft.

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  2. again by ArsonSmith · · Score: 0, Troll

    And again Microsoft is going to find a way to fall flat on it's face and land in a pile of money.

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  3. Re:We're developing a 2Pi game by cornface · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nintendo , every game on Gameboy advance , Nintendo DS , cartridge .

    Wow, that's like, so totally relevant.

    Like, oh my god.

  4. Utter waste of time by PaganRitual · · Score: 0, Troll

    ""Sometimes doing the right thing means doing the hard thing. Are there developers who are disappointed? Yeah, sure. I wish there was a hard drive and I wish there were four terabytes of memory; I wish it were free to consumers and I wish we could put one in every TV set - there are a lot of wishes that I have but at the end of the day we're trying to run a business, and you have to make those trade-offs. "

    Why do people even print or read this bullshit. People don't get their wish for a standard hard drive, and he sympathises with them by saying he wishing for all this fanciful bullshit like being totally free to everyone and four terabtyes of memory. I know we all know this, but this is just obvious PR garbage that isn't even worth the time of day. I'm presuming Edge magazine now has a comedy section, although they didn't in last months mag, so maybe they hide bullshit like this on their website only where hopefully less people will waste their time reading it. They could include anything that Allard or Kutaragi says and put it next to their pretty bad comic strip.