MS: We Keep Selling The HDD-Free 360 Because 'Consumers Like Choice' Options

[Xbox-Scene]

MS: We Keep Selling The HDD-Free 360 Because 'Consumers Like Choice' Posted by XanTium | July 23 16:00 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From multiplayerblog.mtv.com: [QUOTE] Don Mattrick, head of Xbox at Microsoft: "What we've learned is that consumers like choice. So we're providing a choice in flexibility to consumers. There's different entry points. There's different types of experiences people want to use. That program is working for us. Retailers like it. Consumers like it. So that's why we have it." [/QUOTE] Full Story: multiplayerblog.mtv.com

[Tiuk]

That's fine, offer different sized hard drives if you want. But making life harder for developers because they can't depend on the existence of a hard drive sucks. Xbox 1 had it, it should be a standard feature. That's all there is to it.

MS just likes being able to charge ridiculous prices for small drives.

[jasdev]

MS: We Keeps Selling The HDD-Free 360 Because 'Consumers Like Choice'

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[Liquidvlade Hiraduo]

What Tiuk said, my exact words

[Reaper527]

That's fine, offer different sized hard drives if you want. But making life harder for developers because they can't depend on the existence of a hard drive sucks. Xbox 1 had it, it should be a standard feature. That's all there is to it.

MS just likes being able to charge ridiculous prices for small drives.

i agree. with the introduction of the 60 gig drive, there is absolutely no reason for them to not make the 20gig harddrive the storage device for the arcade pack. granted, anything to do now is too little to late, as the 3 year precedent of systems without harddrives means developers won't be able to rely on a harddrive being there even if ms did start including it in all models.

[ekruob]

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Makes you wonder which is worse; the original typo or the web sites that blatently duplicate the error without reading it!

This post has been edited by ekruob: Jul 23 2008, 11:20 PM

[wintord]

Every person I know that as brought a core or arcade version as only done so to replace there broken premium so already have the hard drive. I personally have a premium and a core, so I still have use of a console when it inevitabally red rings (on my 7th or 8th time now sending one or other in for repair) although the last time one got sent in its run for 4 month without dying, proberly due to lack of new games at this time of year.

[HardwareTaco]

Bull SHIT! If consumers actually had a choice then why can't I choose not to have all these shitty GUI changes and now a complete fucking redesign; Why? because they fucked it up so bad.

Marketplace Blade - RETARDED FUCKING IDEA
Putting all my demos and games and arcade titles under one confusing as fuck blade - WHO THE FUCK IS IN CHARGE...

I've watched my xbox become less and less MY game console and more and more a marketing tool for MICROSHAFT to force more advertisements and overpriced down loadable content down my throat...

I really do hate my 360, and when it came out, I was all for it.

Lets all let MICROSHAFT tell us that we WANTED to choose between OVERPRICED hard drives... Cause we like to choose how we're being FUCKED IN THE ASS.

-end rant

I'm really actually very very angry at my console as you can tell, and I hate reading excerpts like this quoting people who continually tell journalists they "know" what their consumers want when they're just talking out their ass.

People... you're being treated like cattle when it comes to your xbox experience, being herded by a farmer to the slaughter. When asked about the humanity of his job, the farmer replied "The cattle like being slaughtered. Butchers like it. Cattle like it. So that's why we do it."

This post has been edited by HardwareTaco: Jul 23 2008, 11:43 PM

[malignantmartyr]

truthfully i dont think the idea of a system without a storage medium was a very good decision on anybodies behalf. Yay, lets go buy a system i cant save my games on so i can start over everytime i play, or we can leave it on for days on end to overheat and send back to m$. Or i can go out and buy a very tiny memory card, at near half the price of the harddrive, which would in turn equal just as much or more to buy the memory card as an add-on as it would have to buy the system with the harddrive initially.

[halcyonx12]

Is that why the Wireless is $100 and not a $5 included part? ^^ BTW I think it comes with a memory card

This post has been edited by halcyonx12: Jul 24 2008, 12:07 AM

[GamerBR]

I like choices,so please make all hdds compatibles with 360,so I can choose which one I want to use.

This post has been edited by GamerBR: Jul 24 2008, 12:12 AM

[XanTium]

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fixed that for you

[minooch]

I can't remember which game i saw it on, but it said on the back of the case "HDD Required"

[phistyle]

sure microsoft messed up with not including a hard drive in the core system at launch but you can't really do anything about it now....developers cant make games that "requires" the use of the hard drive because there are so many people out there that have systems without hard drive but fast forward to present time, it's great that they are still offering one without the hard drive...if my xbox 360 bit the dust or RROD I can just buy an arcade system for cheaper and just use my hard drive from my premium system instead of buying another pro or premium system with another hard drive that I won't use....and theres no use complaining about it all now...we're lucky to have microsoft enter into the gaming market...without them or nintendo...I bet the ps3 would be the same price right now as when it launched...

[Reaper527]

I can't remember which game i saw it on, but it said on the back of the case "HDD Required"

final fantasy 11 is the exception to the rule. as far as i know, that is the only harddrive required game