| S.Peelman said: This is ridiculous. Do they expect people to support their XBoxes with dedicated servers for storage? Seriously you just can't justify something like this. I don't even support my system with every game out there, but I still have about thirty games for a system at the end of a generation. Do they really expect me to pop down serious money for external hard-drives over 2TB? Not to mention the time takes before this stuff is finally installed. It seems more and more likely that there won't be an 8th gen system in my house besides the WiiU. |
2TB by the end of this gen will be dirt cheap, but I see your point... now it's not really a choice they can't use the disc drive to run the games.... a 2TB disc in any of those console or a 15X BR drive would have made the XBoss or PS way too expensive....
so the question is more were we ready to pay even more than 400 to 500 bucks for a console??? or did we want less massive and ambitious games ????
in all honnesty I'm perfectly fine with the 500GB and then I can choose my own solution than being forced to have their overprice 2TB in the box....
you can easily find a 2TB HDD for under a 100 bucks today (granted just the drive) you can get SSHD for less than 200 today... so yeah by the time I will really need something more than 500GB it will be affordable... and the convenience of having an external solution beats having 2TB in the box... what am I suppose to do if I wanna game at a friends house ??? bring my own XB or DL again the games ??? and I'll put way more than just my games on that HDD...
I really don't see the big deal, it is the best option both console chose, considering tomorrow's game requirements, at least the best for consumers... most of them won't even reach the 500GB and the one that do will probably have way more than a 1TB external HDD by 2020 (I had 3TB spread on 5 computers with small sub 500GB drives in RAID in the late 90's early 2000's)
so yeah they expect you to buy a 2TB disc, then again I expect anybody with data requirement such as movies, pictures, and other types of data need to have at least 1TB standard by the end of this decade.... in other word I expect miss congeniality to have a 1TB external HDD by 2020 to store her legally blond movie collection in HD, her REAL HOUSWIVES ultra marathon... and her collection of Brittney spears albums and DVD.....
again I really don't see the issue ??? my first contact with a computer was an MO5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_MO5 look at those specs and look where we are barely 30 years later ???
