| Rainbird said: Of course it's an issue. Consumers are promised that the Arcade can play the exact same games the other SKUs can, but Arcade owners will have to settle for a gimped version unless they want to fork out the cash to get the full value of their money that went to buying Forza 3. It's another thing that you can't download extra DLC which was made to be just that, extras, addons etc. And Rock Band 2 demands you buy all the instruments to get the full experience no matter what console you own. You don't have to buy a fifth peripheral, just because you happen to own a specific SKU of a console. |
In this case they can still play the same game. It has never been the promise that they can play every game exactly as a 20GB+ owner could because some multi-player options, even local multi-player options are excluded if you don't own a HDD. So this is not the first case and this is not the last case where this will or has happened. The promise as I interpretted it, is that you can get the same basic functionality of just playing games cheaper if you choose the Arcade. It doesn't promise that every experience will be identical because some experiences would have to require a HDD as otherwise the HDD would be useless dead weight. There aren't any games aside from two which require a HDD to actually play, so that promise holds true.
Tease.
