Hmm, always thought there were already HDD only games like FFXI, but that's only the beta.

I hate M$ with a passion. They are suing Linux Users for Patient infringement and trying to stop the open-source community.

@ He300

I think that's particular bad, because they are registering so many rediculous patents, features and designs used in similar rival efforts for over 10 years before Microsoft finally implemented them into their OSes. In the good old days Microsoft was an Amiga software developing company (MSDOS era), they learned a lot from working with AmigaOS , an OS which offered a pre-emptive multitasking GUI enviroment, copy & paste between windowed spreadsheets/word processors, video editing and many other features currently implemented in modern OSes and software.

IMO it's sad and funny that out of all companies, a copycat company like Microsoft is taking this road.

I don't think it's unreasonable to implement minimum hardware requirements just like any PC game. This kind of restriction seems detremental(sp?) to devs looking to make huge titles on the 360.

BTW, the easiest (read: cheapest) way to upgrade your space is an external USB h/d, those 2.5 internal laptop drives are still very pricy, plus you end up wasting the 60 gig drive that's in there already.

PC games are usually not required to support low specced PCs, this measure limits the freedom for developers to develop their game according to the specifications they think is desireable for their game. GTA IV development is affected by the core's lack of a default harddrive and the XBox 360's DVD storage limitations. As this is a cross-platform game this will probably not only affect the XBox 360 version, but the PS3 version as well. So we may never know what Rockstar actually had in store for us.

IMO 2.5 inch harddrives aren't that expensive and for me would be well worth the extra bucks to have the harddrive neatly stored inside the PS3. But 60GB is more than enough for now, if at some point I will upgrade the harddrive I will probably go for a 200GB drive which will likely have gone down in price by that time.

I dont like there products. I dont like the Xbox's or the Zunes. I hardly like any of the stuff there in beside computer support. Its my own opinion though. Maybe it was a good thing that the xbox came, to make Nintendo and Sony work harder to make better games but I never liked Microsoft with anything beside what they do with computers. I might change my mind with there new product coming out (The touch table thingy). Who knows I might even perfer Microsoft in the future over Nintendo and Sony but as of now i dont really like the stuff they make.

First off, watch your tone, its a discussion. And please don't try and school me on the goings on of the video game industry as judging from your hotheadedness I was likely gaming before you were born. And yes, I do ALSO dislikes Sonys vision of the set top box.

But if you notice, the thread title mentions NOTHING of Sony. The thread asks how you feel about Microsoft, and to that I replied. So take YOUR bullshit elsewhere and stop getting testy with me dude.

And finally, I never stated I hated Microsoft as a whole. I said I disliked their vision, not the company as a whole. Work on your reading comprehension before you go calling someone else stupid.

However, The major difference is Nintendo's major unethical behaviour was 20 years ago. Since then they have all new management, they have been served a whole lot of humble pie by Sony, and they're back and they're running things better. If they start screwing customers over again then I'll stop buying their products, simple.

Microsoft and Sony have been unethically and illegally screwingpeople over constantly and are STILL doing it. If Sony/Microsoft removes all their upper management and have years of ethical behaviour then I will consider buying their products again.

QFT

I think for Microsoft the public perception may enhance but with regard to Sony, they already are ranked number one with their brand:

A survey conducted in Fall 2006 shows that Sony has the strongest brand:

The AlixPartners Brand Power IndexSM found that the ten most powerful brands today are:

1. Sony (NYSE-SNE)
2. Johnson & Johnson (NYSE-JNJ)
3. Kraft (NYSE-KFT)
4. Procter & Gamble (NYSE-PG)
5. Campbell’s (NYSE-CPB)
6. Toyota (NYSE-TM)
7. Tylenol
8. Dell (NasdaqGS-DELL)
9. General Mills (NYSE-GIS)
10. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE-HPQ)

Of note, several mega-brands such as Coca Cola (Nasdaq-COKE), Pepsi NYSE-PBG), tied for 11th, and Nike (NYSE-NKE), at 14th did not crack the top 10 under this new methodology.

http://www.alixpartners.com/EN/NewsMedia/PressReleases/tabid/129/PressReleaseID/73/Display/Detail/Default.aspx