What would it matter? I mean, if it could read off a hard drive, why couldn't it read it off the disc directly?
In the article posted a couple of weeks ago at GameSpy....
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Optical Drive - As many have speculated, Xenon will not use Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. Games will come on dual-layer DVD-9 discs. While the media is the same as that of the current Xbox, the usable space on each disc is up to 7 GB. The drive is slated to run at 12X.
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The media stays the same. So, the new optical drives, can read the old games as the media is of the same type.
The PS3 and Revolution are both updating their consoles and have managed to maintain backwards compatability, but Microsoft can't do it unless you buy a 40GB hard drive for $100? What's so drastically different between the two incarnations of X-box that a hard drive is going to magically fix?
If Microsoft had come out right in the beginning and said that they've decided to go a different route and because of hardware specs, new software, chosen distributors and the like there was no way for them to make the X-box 360 play older X-box games, I would have gone quietly into the night.
But they didn't. And I won't.
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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
it doesn't seem wise to segment your userbase into two major categories (those with the HD, and those w/out) right out of the starting gate. if a large percentage of the installed base gets the cheaper version (and i assume that will be true to some extent), then you are essentially hamstringing your developers into producing software for the the lesser of the two models.
guthmund, i had those same reservations (among others) about the psp.
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Absolutely. I mentioned this in another thread about the X-box backwards compatability, but I don't remember it getting too far. And you're absolutely right. The PSP is another fine example, so, it's not like Microsoft has the monopoly on short sighted arrogance. "Universal Media Discs?" If one could die of irony...
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Originally Posted by fremen
*bumped, 'cause it was so good to read*
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Awww, shucks...
/embarassed