Sunday, February 27, 2005
More XBOX 360 rumors
Engadget is reporting that the XBOX 360 will indeed have wireless controllers (a rumor first reported by The Inquirer, I think) and an optional top-mounting hard drive.
Of course, this leads everyone to speculate that there will be two models: one with a hard drive (and maybe PVR functionality) and one without (that will be cheaper). Many of the comments on the Engadget story say that MS is making a mistake by not including a hard drive on all models.
I think that the hard drive is an unnecessary expense considering that the current XBOX hard drive is nothing more than a really big memory card. The XBOX 360 will supposedly use a 1GB flash drive, so game saves should be covered. If I can get an XBOX without a hard drive that is relatively inexpensive, then I'm OK without the hard drive.
The bigger question that I want answered (and maybe it has been) is about backwards compatibility. See, if they make the XBOX 360 play XBOX games, then I think a lot of people with go ahead and hack their XBOX (I know I will). The only reason I haven't done it yet is because I don't want to lose the ability to play games if I screw it up.
If the XBOX 360 will play your old games, then there really isn't any reason not to hack the XBOX once the 360 is released.
Engadget is reporting that the XBOX 360 will indeed have wireless controllers (a rumor first reported by The Inquirer, I think) and an optional top-mounting hard drive.
Of course, this leads everyone to speculate that there will be two models: one with a hard drive (and maybe PVR functionality) and one without (that will be cheaper). Many of the comments on the Engadget story say that MS is making a mistake by not including a hard drive on all models.
I think that the hard drive is an unnecessary expense considering that the current XBOX hard drive is nothing more than a really big memory card. The XBOX 360 will supposedly use a 1GB flash drive, so game saves should be covered. If I can get an XBOX without a hard drive that is relatively inexpensive, then I'm OK without the hard drive.
The bigger question that I want answered (and maybe it has been) is about backwards compatibility. See, if they make the XBOX 360 play XBOX games, then I think a lot of people with go ahead and hack their XBOX (I know I will). The only reason I haven't done it yet is because I don't want to lose the ability to play games if I screw it up.
If the XBOX 360 will play your old games, then there really isn't any reason not to hack the XBOX once the 360 is released.
¶ 8:26 AM 
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