Comments on: The Xbox 360′s 3-Disc Dilemma

By: Brainiacxiii

Brainiacxiii — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:25:54 +0000

ps3 doesn’t download content to the harddrive from the disks because of blue-rays speed. That makes no sense. They harddrive load games because it takes less time to read from the drive than the disk on ANY disk. Thats why ps3/360 games load faster, textures etc. on the ps3. Blue ray was obviously the choice for a next gen system but the 360 was xbox 1.5 anyhow.
One of the greatest games ever, MGS, required multiple disk changes. It didn’t bother me. Many FF titles requires 2 or 3 disk changes. The reason itis an issue is for large scale sandbox games. Do I have to change disks when I go to china town? Harddrive loading multidisk 360 games wont work. The xbox harddrives are too small to be devoting so much space to one title. You’d have to delete local data from one gameto install the next. ps3′s hdd is swappable is 5 seconds. 360 harddrive had about 8 screws and a jigsaw puzzle

By: MCSE

MCSE — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:34:07 +0000

Dude, are you guys kidding me? Copying two maybe three dvds to play a game. 500 gigs will not be enough trust me. With all the other content that is saved to the harddrive. I just purchase a 360/60GB last year and the drive is already full from just playing games, save check points and other game content. Just imagine copying 20-30 gig to play a game then saving all the extra’s per game. 500 gig will not last long i can tell you that right now. Microsoft screwed up on this one big time and future sale will prove that. with that being said folks will start looking at the ps3 and walking by the 360.

The bad economy really screwed things for both microsoft and sony. But it seems that sony may end up getting the last laugh after all. Sony price point is keeping microsoft from releasing a new system. How so you may ask. R&D cost that’s how. Microosoft will have to charge more or the same price for the New system and that will cost them a crap load of money in the end. But will add money to sony pocket and prove sony’s arguement.

As for downloads, Not everybody who purchase a console have internet so that kills that theory. Plus Providers are putting a 5 gig download limit on folks. Just imaging if you will, you are playing a game and the system stops because you ran out of disk space. Hmm remind you of anything aka blue screen of death (BOD). You now have to a:) purchase another harddrive either usb or replace the internal or b:) delete content that you may want to use later either way it sucks. Coping it to the harddrive is an option but it is not the best solution nor will user want to wait to copy 20-30 gigs to the hard just to play a game. Hell ps3 owners complain now about game install. Can you just imagine what the mass of 360 folks will say if they have to copy 2 entire dvds before they can play a game on a 360. Game stop will have a huge inventory of used 360 to sell that is for sure.

I’ve been an Microsoft Certified System Engineer for 15 years so i am a strong supporter of microsoft. But they really screwed up with the 360. Sony got it right, Blue Ray- HDMI, Optical for surroundsound so you can purchase a $300 receiver that doesn’t support sound over hdmi. Receivers that do support surround sound over HDMI will cost you about $500 big ones. Microsoft made so many mistake with the 360 just like they did with Vista.

By: Raman

Raman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:11:21 +0000

Mike

the xbox arcade is the best selling xbox. Microsoft is thinking of discontinuing the regular model and having only the Elite. This means fewer xboxes with harddrives.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:57:10 +0000

The HDD solves this problem except for the fact that the XBox 360 is constrained in this area. If these kind of games become the norm, maybe we’ll see more flexible options for the HDD. Why is there virtually no way to get an ordinary affordable 500 gig hard drive on my XBox? Why is 120 gigs the magic number? 120 gigs was the standard for computers 5 years ago.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:44:51 +0000

I just wanted to comment on the PS3 BlueRay versus 360.
As pretty much mentioned; games can be copied to the 360 harddrive. Yes you will have to keep disc one, two, or three in the drive for authentication. They have been doing this for many years on multi-disc games on PC. And unless I have heard this incorrectly, Microsoft is doing away with the Non-Harddrive 360s. So it should really not be an issue and maybe be a plus for 360 owners being able to play from the harddrive should actually provide a better overall gaming experience than on the PS3.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:00:25 +0000

Yep, welcome to the conversation. I’ve been saying this for years. Bluray for gaming is something no one talks about but is the big reason it WILL matter. That’s the reason Heavenly Sword isn’t an XBOX360 game…the HD audio 7.1 soundtrack alone was 11GB. And for those that say you could just load it all onto a hard drive, sure it’s possible if you have a bigger hard drive, but how easy is it to keep upgrading your hard drive for all the content? The PS3 makes it easy. I have a 500GB 2.5 sata in mine. Is it so easy for xbox? In the end, Bluray for gaming is the biggest reason PS3 will (very soon) be leapfrogging over Microsoft.

By: Tim Conneally

Tim Conneally — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:21:56 +0000

Hopefully it won’t be fashioned like Metal Gear Solid 4 which required very long and annoying installs after every level (and accompanying half hour long cutscene.)

By: lv20066

lv20066 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:14:30 +0000

Yep, 2-disc Resident Evil 5 on the GC was RUINED because of the disc-swap!

By: Orion

Orion — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:24:49 +0000

Is getting and moving 5 feet really going to kill your fat ass?

By: flyphotoguy

flyphotoguy — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:24:50 +0000

what’s the cliffhanger moment going to be — a monster jumping out of a dark corner behind you, or one coming out of a hidden door in a wall after you pass by it… again, and again, and again!

Don’t really see the big deal — this was bound to happen eventually, just like when we shifted from CD-ROM to DVD: and it’s not exactly happening tomorrow.

I hope this Doom has some more innovation going for it when it hits…