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I have two vista machines, a zune, a 360 and had the original xbox. So this is not a bash Microsoft rant but I'm confused at some decisions they made with the 360. They offer demos, movies, and games to go on their hard drive. They are going to let people install full games on their hard drives so you don't have to have the dvd drive spinning loudly the whole time. This machine is supposed to be the centerpiece of a media setup and the original adopters have to live with a 20GB hard drive??!?!?!
I'm all up for these companies making money but the harder you make it for customers to use these "premium services" like downloading movies you pay through live and demos and installing games to the hard drive the less people are going to use it.
I understand that companies need to make money but the regular person isn't going to go through all the trouble to buy a 449 dollar elite system or pay 180 dollars to put 120 GB hard drive in their machine for Microsoft to make money off of their downloading service. One game install, one movie, and a few demos and their goes my hard drive space...
There has to be a concession somewhere. The ps3 comes with hard drives that are too small and some games require hard drive installs...but at least they concede with letting users install a bigger hard drive without voiding their warranty.
Something just doesn't make sense. If you want to be a media hub and gaming center at least give people the opportunity to use the damn service. The millions of people that bought a 360 already are thinking I'll install my games to my hard drive. When they realize they can't get more than one game on it they aren't going to use the feature.
Yes a 60GB 360 should be coming and the elite is out there but c'mon...it leave a lot of customers unable to use some great features.
I was always buying games that were cross platform on my 360 over my ps3 but those days are over. I can upgrade my hard drive and play online for free...things just don't make sense....my 360 is probably going to start collecting dust until I see mass effect 2 show up or something exclusive that I can't play on ps3.
**I am completely aware you get what you pay for but this is a bad business practice if you want customers to be able to take advantage of the new features you have put a lot of time and money into researching and developing. All these deals with movie studios and tv studios will probably go for nothing because customers are being squeezed****
I'm all up for these companies making money but the harder you make it for customers to use these "premium services" like downloading movies you pay through live and demos and installing games to the hard drive the less people are going to use it.
I understand that companies need to make money but the regular person isn't going to go through all the trouble to buy a 449 dollar elite system or pay 180 dollars to put 120 GB hard drive in their machine for Microsoft to make money off of their downloading service. One game install, one movie, and a few demos and their goes my hard drive space...
There has to be a concession somewhere. The ps3 comes with hard drives that are too small and some games require hard drive installs...but at least they concede with letting users install a bigger hard drive without voiding their warranty.
Something just doesn't make sense. If you want to be a media hub and gaming center at least give people the opportunity to use the damn service. The millions of people that bought a 360 already are thinking I'll install my games to my hard drive. When they realize they can't get more than one game on it they aren't going to use the feature.
Yes a 60GB 360 should be coming and the elite is out there but c'mon...it leave a lot of customers unable to use some great features.
I was always buying games that were cross platform on my 360 over my ps3 but those days are over. I can upgrade my hard drive and play online for free...things just don't make sense....my 360 is probably going to start collecting dust until I see mass effect 2 show up or something exclusive that I can't play on ps3.
**I am completely aware you get what you pay for but this is a bad business practice if you want customers to be able to take advantage of the new features you have put a lot of time and money into researching and developing. All these deals with movie studios and tv studios will probably go for nothing because customers are being squeezed****