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Xenostar on 30 March 2011
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kowenicki said:
cory.ok said:
kowenicki said:
cory.ok said:
kowenicki said:
TRios_Zen said:
Xenostar said:

Does seem a little late in the consoles life cycle to be doing somthing this expensive just for a few extra gig storage.

How expensive is it?

a firmware upgrade...?

pretty much free.


i think theyre talking about development cost for microsoft, not the cost to the end user.

it really depends on what their goals were, what transfer rate were they aiming for and are they limited to the standard dvd drives 650nm laser? how much storage did they want?

we really cant know what the development cost is at with what we know


Well clearly anything they are doing is limited to the current 360 hardware. So we are only talking software development.

not necessarily... they could be developing a new way to layer discs or a new disc altogether

in which case to use your own argument the cost would be zero as they would make money on the royalty saved going forward.

so like i said..  nil cost.

Your insane if you think this is nil cost, or do you live somewhere there is still slavery and you dont have to pay highly qualified people, and its not like they went "oh i think its only half an hours work to improve our technology and release a new firmware!"

 

Newer reports are suggesting a 1gig upgrade by reducing the size of security data, they must of had some compelling reasons to want to squeeze out another gig, or what i think is now more likely is they were working on new security anyway to try and stop the pirates and a by product of that is it takes up less space, which they are uderstanably pushing as the new feature as its good for developers and its not good to antagonise the hackers / pirates of this world.