Is X1 forcing Kinect on us any different than PS3 forcing Bluray on us?

[Michael-5]

Pemalite said:

Michael-5 said:

Like I already told you, there are a lot of games not possible on 360 because of the DVD format of the disk. MGS IV is one of them.

~40GB PS3 games - A lot of it is content, a lot of the bigger 360 games use 2 disks which is about 20GB, Sony just has BR instead.

You're kidding right?

Have you played Metal Gear Solid IV? It's not exactly a technical marvel, blurry low resolutions textures are everywhere, from a hardware perspective the Xbox 360 would handle the game just fine as there are games on the Xbox 360 that surpass it easily in terms of image quality. (Remember, the Xbox 360's GPU is superior to the Playstation 3's.)

Also keep in mind that 40Gb worth of game data would include duplicated data in order to optimise latency and throughput on the slower Blu-ray drive.
You could fit the game on 2x DVD's with some decent amounts of compression, which Microsoft used for Halo, that's suddenly not going to make it impossible to have it on the Xbox 360.
Compression can also improve drive throughput too, however you would need to expend CPU cycles for decompression.

Konami said MGS4 can't be partitioned to fit on a 360 disk, and yes I've played the game. I doubt they would have clearly separated the game into 5 acts with a 2-3 minute load between acts if they weren't at least trying to port the game to 360. This game didn't get ported to the 360 because it was designed originally to be a PS4 exclusive, and just the way they designed the engine, I guess they couldn't partition it.

Clearly MGS5 shows us that the graphical limitations were not the cause.

Not all 40GB games have duplicate data, there are quite a few 3 & 4 disk 360 games. Lost Odyssey is 4 disk, and games like Blue Dragon, Star Ocean, FFXIII, LA Noire, and Rage are 3 disk. Of those games, the ones available on PS3 are still 1 disk, and in the case of Star Ocean, it's 1 disk with extra content.