Microsoft to aid users unable to take advantage of “New Xbox Experience”
Microsoft is set to unveil its “New Xbox Experience” to eager 360 owners on November 19, 2008. This update is set to revamp the 360’s entire dashboard and introduce “avatars,“ which are characters that players can customize to suit their own whims.
This “new experience” will come at a cost of 128 MB of hard drive space; while this may not be a problem for 360 owners who have purchased sufficient memory sources, there remains a large amount of individuals who have not. For these people, Microsoft has promised to come to their aid…
Microsoft to allow games to require hard drive space for MMOs
After months of denials, Microsoft finally admitted that it will allow game developers to require a hard drive for some consoles games. The info was essentially let loose at GameFest Microsoft Game Technology Conference earlier last week (August 13-1, 2007) in Seattle, WA, by a Microsoft rep who said:
“Feel free to require 30GB for your game. That’s just going to make your potential audience a lot smaller.“
Microsoft has basically lifted the hard drive space restriction for MMO developers, potentially meaning that the Xbox 360 versions of games can be nearly identical to PC versions. Xbox Live games will still be capped at 150 MB though no mention was made…
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