Bourne Dev believes MS Hard Drive Strategy is FLAWED!

species8472 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-05-2008, 02:30 AM

Rory McGuire the lead developer on the Bourne Conspiracy believes that the lack of a standard Hard Drive for the 360 is FLAWED. I agree and disagree. On the agree side, yes, extra space is nice for streaming in-game and allows for faster level loads and extra in-game content. On the disagree side, devs are really learning to compress and utilize memory which is very good from a performance standpoint as everything is loaded into memory initially so the game does not have to retrieve data from elsewhere.

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Speaking to CVG, High Moon Studio’s McGuire said that Microsoft was wrong not to include a hard drive with its lower-end 360 models as it puts limitations on what developers hoping to cater to all 360 owners can do.

"In retrospect I wish Microsoft had made the choice to have [mandatory] hard drives like Sony did with the PS3," he said. "They did it with the original Xbox. I'm not sure why they decided to not require a hard drive on the 360. From what I understand they don't move many [Core/Arcade] units.

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Beda · #2 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008, 04:02 AM

Oh no its a conspiracy! RUN!!

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