Mr Bean wrote:If I may ask if MS is not going to inculded a hard drive how then could they give the free live subscription? Without a hard-drive how could such details be stored? Nevermind the other 80% of the Xbox 360's functionality goes out the door.
I doubt the XBox Live Silver account (which doesn't even support online play, so not much stats to record there) will take 64 MB, so it could be done on the memory card I suppose.
Otherwise, just require the hard drive to get XBox Live and (as Kernel suggested) give free subscriptions with it and you'll get lotsa hard drive sales.
Mr Bean wrote:If I may ask if MS is not going to inculded a hard drive how then could they give the free live subscription? Without a hard-drive how could such details be stored? Nevermind the other 80% of the Xbox 360's functionality goes out the door.
I doubt the XBox Live Silver account (which doesn't even support online play, so not much stats to record there) will take 64 MB, so it could be done on the memory card I suppose.
Otherwise, just require the hard drive to get XBox Live and (as Kernel suggested) give free subscriptions with it and you'll get lotsa hard drive sales.
So the user profiles, saved games, the system settings, the Internation codes and what-not get stored on the magic infinity drive thats exists within the Z zone?
They have been very clear on this point that the Xbox inculdes a Silver subscription which incudles alot of chat-features and what-not. Those programs have to be stored on SOMETHING unless they want to make you stick a DVD every time you want to chat with your friends while you play your games. Something that the've said you can do out of the boxes.
Ten bucks on the table The Xbox-360 ships with a hard-drive with an expantion slot for another hard-drive or a link cable to ghost the hard drives to each other in a modular bay.
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Mr Bean wrote:If I may ask if MS is not going to inculded a hard drive how then could they give the free live subscription? Without a hard-drive how could such details be stored? Nevermind the other 80% of the Xbox 360's functionality goes out the door.
I doubt the XBox Live Silver account (which doesn't even support online play, so not much stats to record there) will take 64 MB, so it could be done on the memory card I suppose.
Otherwise, just require the hard drive to get XBox Live and (as Kernel suggested) give free subscriptions with it and you'll get lotsa hard drive sales.
So the user profiles, saved games, the system settings, the Internation codes and what-not get stored on the magic infinity drive thats exists within the Z zone?
They have been very clear on this point that the Xbox inculdes a Silver subscription which incudles alot of chat-features and what-not. Those programs have to be stored on SOMETHING unless they want to make you stick a DVD every time you want to chat with your friends while you play your games. Something that the've said you can do out of the boxes.
Ten bucks on the table The Xbox-360 ships with a hard-drive with an expantion slot for another hard-drive or a link cable to ghost the hard drives to each other in a modular bay.
Um...did you skip my post? The XBox 360's memory cards are 64 MB. I suggested that the XBox Live Silver user profile and system settings could easily be stored on the card; I doubt even Microsoft's software doesn't bloat so much that a user account profile is over 64 MB.
I think a 64 MB card is a bit more than a "magic infinity drive that exists within the Z zone"...
EDIT:
Todd Holmdahl: Xbox 360 games do not require the HDD or a Memory Unit, but Xbox Live requires one or the other to save the gamers’ account information.
There you go, right there. ONE OR THE OTHER. XBox Live can save the gamers' account information on the Memory Unit. That's straight from Microsoft.
There you go, right there. ONE OR THE OTHER. XBox Live can save the gamers' account information on the Memory Unit. That's straight from Microsoft.
Thats a nice feature for being able to move accountes from Xbox to Xbox. But I maintain, ten bucks. It will ship with a hard drive.
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