Microsoft Considers Degraing Games to Work Around Lack Of HDD....

[LordTheNightKnight]

sharky said:

Anyways if you actually know anything about game programming you know lack of HDD is not a problem..otherwise PS2 is the most gimped, crappy system of all time. And Gamecube is the second least powerful, most gimped. Right?

Of course it's all Sony fanboys who hate the Core (because they know it will be used to destroy Sony) so you'll never get them to admit PS2 sucks because it lack a HDD LOL.

5400RPM is barely at all faster than a 12X DVD drive..but I know you guys will just completely ignore that fact and most of you probably cant even begin to comprehend it. Technically illiterate doesn't begin to describe the technology level of most of you..

But just ask yourself why Madden is 60 FPS on 360 and 30 on PS3 with HDD...or why most PS3 multi-platform games have longer load times with the HDD than 360 without HDD...

The article is actually fairly interesting..for one it notes ms DOES allow MMO's to require the HDD (I think it's very reasonable in that case).

>>"We can't guess how much space you're going to need for your updates, and, if anything's going to keep you from expanding indefinitely, it won't be us, as much as market forces," said Ian Lewis, software design engineer at Microsoft. "Feel free to require 30GB for your game; that's just going to make your potential audience a lot smaller.">>

That is also interesting..MS is not telling designers to do anything.

 

 

 One thing. The RPMs of the HDD may be slower than the DVD drive, but it can pick up a lot more data with the reader heads than the laser of an optical drive. So in one second, the HDD reads a lot more data than an optical drive.