jman8 on 31 March 2007
sieanr said:
Don't forget all the bitching over the 2 versions of the 360, or the complaining about a multimedia machine as opposed yo dedicated console.
And of course the issue of price
I'm still complaining about the two versions of the 360. One without a hard drive means developers often cannot develop their games to heavily utilize a hard drive. I highly doubt PS2/3 fans were dissing the "multimedia machine" idea considering the DVD functionality was a huge selling point for the PS2, and we've known Sony was including a blu-ray drive in the PS3 for close to 3 years now.
quartz said:
Right, so it's to reduce loading times...I guess the HDD will fill up fast then if you have a few games like this .
And why is it a bad thing to use a hard drive to reduce load times? Sure it takes up 2gb of space on the hard drive, but do you really need to have 10+ games with reduced load times? It's not like the game is unplayable without the hard drive dump.
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Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid 3, Shenmue, Skies of Arcadia, Chrono Trigger
My 2 nex-gen systems: PS3 
and Wii 
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