Xbox 360 exclusive Ninja Blade to require a hard drive?

vitz3 - 478 days 3 hours ago

Putting a question mark at the end of every N4G title is stupid?

Seriously guys it really needs to stop, it's retarded.

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Fox01 - 477 days 23 hours ago

Every time I visit this site and read the Sony fangirls comments, it just holds me from buying a PS3. I wouldn't want to cope with such idiots on PSN or Home.
It has some good exclusives (Killzone and LittleBigPlanet), but I think I'll pass.

I hope other people that are asking themselves wether to buy a 360 or a PS3 would visit this site; they'll make up their minds pretty easily.

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Taker_129 - 477 days 22 hours ago

You should take a look at LightningPS3's posts, makes you want to get rid of that 360 too, huh. LOL

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jlemdon - 477 days 18 hours ago

If it's for better gameplay,graphix,etc.

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mfwahwah - 477 days 11 hours ago

You're judging millions of PS3 owners based on the comments of dozens of N4G members? Trust me, it's not remotely this bad on the PSN. It's a bit quiet (hopefully Home and SOCOM change this), but don't let N4G hold you back from a PS3.

I don't let PoG, GiantEnemyCrab, Odion, Mart, etc. stop me from considering a 360 purchase.

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Nineball2112 - 477 days 9 hours ago

Bloodwar posted: "What's wrong with LighntningPS3?
Its seems as though he is confused? I would have assumed he was a PS3 fan, but he is supporting the Xbox 360 in this thread."

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but LightningPS3 more than supports the X360 and bashes the PS3 on EVERY thread that he posts on.

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thereapersson - 477 days 6 hours ago

That's a REALLY stupid reason not to buy a system. Trust me, there are exponentially less people like that on the actual PSN network.

You're just making excuses so you don't have to worry about wanting to buy the PS3.

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LightningPS3 - 478 days 3 hours ago

Sony just F*cken up. Developers will find a way. Because this business is about making money more than anything.

EDIT:

All I'm saying is, if you have the userbase, developers will find the way. And 360 has the userbase, and apparently about to get more with these new prices.

360 fighting the winning battle, PS3 NOT.

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HighDefinition - 478 days 3 hours ago

You still make NO sense to me half the time.

explain?

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Bombibomb - 478 days 3 hours ago

I think you meant to say ALL THE TIME, HD.

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LastDance - 478 days 2 hours ago

Hey HD....But lots of ps3 games have had installs so im not sure thats a fair comment. Im not denying that having DVD is a problem.

If its true that some of the xbox user base is going to be alienated, microsoft have failed in the worst way possible. Yea we can scream about lack of features or failing hardware on consoles but at the end of the day, you could still play games. Which is the main reason for why we own these things. If you cant even do THAT anymore. Bad news.

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gamersday08 - 477 days 17 hours ago

This is because the gfx, videos and audio filesize is increasing fast. So, even with a fast drive, it's too taxing for the hardware to read and process so much data on-the-fly. Of course such machines exist but they're commercially inviable.

It's more practical to install the files.

10 years ago, console can use CDs and not requiring installation because the gfx and sound filesize were small. There were minimal videos and the compressions were bad. Any drive that contains moving parts will be slow, ie, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, BD-ROM, etc. Coupled with the task of processing the data almost instantaneously, the machine needs to work really fast.

Nowadays, to meet the expectations of current gen gamers, the gfx, videos and audio have to be of very good quality and this increases the filesizes tremendously.

There will be more and more AAA titles that will require installation and that's a fact until someone can build a machine (commercially) that has a drive fast enough to read the data off the storage medium and process the huge amount of data on-the-fly. Solid state anyone?

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mfwahwah - 477 days 11 hours ago

"360 fighting the winning battle, PS3 NOT." I sort of agree.

The 360 is fighting a battle and winning.

The war, though, is where we veer off into different opinions apparently ;P.

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robbo918 - 477 days 7 hours ago

@Lightning: You basically just slammed yourself...nice job. Yes they will sell more of the Arcade version at that low "magic" price point probably but all those people won't be able to play this game (IF the rumor winds up being true) or any others that require they have a HD unless they shell out MORE money thus making that magic price point disappear as they blow more money buying all the stuff MS leaves out.

As to userbases...MS had an entire year with NO competition from PS3 or Wii and they are only 5 million ahead of the PS3 worldwide, what battle did they win exactly?

As to the story, if it turns out to be true this will be a big problem for MS. How can they say their arcade version is cheap when it requires you spend more money to play some of the games? I think its a rumor though, MS isn't likely to do something like this IMO.

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HighDefinition - 478 days 3 hours ago

This wasn`t going to happen?

MLB2k8 was the first real sign of what`s to come. When you can`t fit a baseball game on a disc and the rest comes as a "free download", you got problems.

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Jenzo - 477 days 22 hours ago

If you can fit games like GTA IV, Oblivion and Assassin's Creed on one disc you don't have a problem. It comes down to how skilled the developers are and how much time they have on their hands before the game is released.

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gambare - 477 days 21 hours ago

those are multiplat games, they were made to run on the 360 and OF COURSE they fit on a DVD 9 because they were gimped just like every game considered to run on the 360.

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Jenzo - 477 days 17 hours ago

Name 1 PS3 exclusive game that is bigger and lasts longer then the ones I mentioned.

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HighDefinition - 477 days 16 hours ago

GTA IV - Not as full of a expierence as the PS2 titles.
Oblivion - Cut and Paste fest.
Assassin's Creed - Most repetitive game this gen.

Every Exclusive since MGS4 is a more full and a not plagued w/ problems expierence than all those games.

R2 and LBP, to name some upcoming ones.

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HighDefinition - 478 days 3 hours ago

At this point all the PS3 has to do is drop price, to really push the 360 "out".

It outsells it being more expensive.

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Bombibomb - 478 days 3 hours ago

Too expensive and yet the only way the 360 has been able to outsell the PS3 in the past few months was with another desperate price drop from M$.

This isn't about the PS3 by the way lol. Reported.

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Some_One_Plays - 478 days 1 hour ago

The PlayStation 3 is one of the cheapest consoles on the market, and XBOX 360's the price cut means nothing. Eventually people are going to want a rechargeable battery, hard drive, headset, XBOX Live, or anything else that isn't included in the package.

If you don't believe me just do the math yourself, and come back to tell me the price cut means anything. If the Elite was at $199.99 then you'll have an argument. If this games does require a hard drive Microsoft is then forcing the Arcade model buyers with a hard drive, now that's a problem.

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bruiser81 - 478 days ago

oh thank god, he's out of bubbles

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LastDance - 478 days 2 hours ago

It will if ya dont have a harddrive lol.

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PirateThom - 478 days 2 hours ago

Because it lets them say "we have the cheapest console".

The Arcade is a joke and should never, ever have been released.

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Mukiwa - 477 days 16 hours ago

In some ways the Arcade was a nice idea, I can sort of see what they were trying to achieve there.
However, from a developers point of view a non-mandatory HDD in the 360 is as much use as no HDD.
Disagree with me if you will but I'm pretty certain that 9/10 developers wouldn't have said no to the 360 having an HDD in every SKU.

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ceedubya9 - 477 days 15 hours ago

I would hope that those that buy the Arcade console knew what they were buying. Anyone seriously doing any 360 gaming would/should buy the pro console, unless they just want to get one on the cheap now and upgrade it later.

It amazes me how many people buy a console in the states just to play a new Madden every year. They definitely don't need a hDD for that.

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Funky Town_TX - 478 days 1 hour ago

there are about 250 360 games how many require a HDD to play since this is a "trend" DJ.

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gambare - 477 days 21 hours ago

why go elite if they want you to buy a 360 without HD for $199?

if that's the case then there is no point in the price drop. And if you tell me "you can buy the HDD apart" the it will increase the cost of the "cheap" 360 version and there is no point (again) in the price drop.

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gambare - 477 days 21 hours ago

yeah, specially when they were right about the PS3 install reduced dramatically the load times of the battles in SC4 and the 360 don't require this but takes an eternity to load a battle. And they went mad at this because now the 360 fans are rabid because the PS3 fans are telling them "we told you so"

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InfiniteUnfloppery - 478 days 2 hours ago

Poor xbots

Poor xbots

Poor xbots

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Mwaan - 478 days 2 hours ago

I haven't had a chance to check out Infinite Undiscovery yet. There's so many rpg's on the 360 that it will take me a while to get to it. After I finish Tales of Vesperia, I have to move on to Fable 2 and The Last Remnant. This new Ninja game looks cool. I love a good Ninja game.

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Dyingduck - 478 days ago

ROFL

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gambare - 477 days 21 hours ago

LOL at patch, now you don't complain about the games requiring a mandatory install?

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juuken - 477 days 4 hours ago

>.< Joo just askin' to be flamed!
Don't rub it in their faces!
Btw, I'm upgrading too. :D

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YoshiMeetsU - 477 days 2 hours ago

So you've seen a dozen screenshots and now the game MIGHT require a hard drive and it's not looking awesome anymore?

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ambientFLIER - 477 days 1 hour ago

Don't mind her. She's a girl gamer, which means she has to prove herself harder than everyone else, and in this case, out-troll everyone.

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juuken - 476 days 21 hours ago

Guys, don't gang up on me. I remembered that article with Rage and thought about this. You can't deny that space will become an issue on the 360. :/

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