Official unofficial Gen 4 hype thread: First Full-HD™ port announced

[ME##]

and to think that at one point they wanted every single game downloaded to the hard drive

seriously.  sony may be cheap by only putting in a 500gb drive also, but at least give you the option to expand it yourself @_@

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i can't help but wonder just how much they're saving by opting for 500gb rather than 1tb, considering that with current consumer internal hard drives, the difference between the two sizes only seems to be around $10

[Thyme]

ok but guys really 500 gb for a videoshame console that's still kinda large

[ME##]

ok but guys really 500 gb for a videoshame console that's still kinda large

it is until you notice all the stuff microsoft wants you to store on this thing.  games, tv shows, movies, nsa collecting metadata strings, music, etc, etc.  500gb is just not enough, and making it incompatible with external storage solutions out of the box [when you said that would be an option right away] is just dumb.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

500gb is only about eight full-sized blu ray games (minus space for the os), which would have been a serious problem if microsoft had had the gall to stick with their original plans for the xbox one

[Thyme]

oh yeah i just meant the quadrupple fuck the xbone lel who cares

[Kalahari Inkantation]

and making it incompatible with external storage solutions out of the box [when you said that would be an option right away] is just dumb.

though as long as they do make it compatible within a year of its release i'm sure it won't be too much of a problem

[Kalahari Inkantation]

oh yeah i just meant the quadrupple fuck the xbone lel who cares

oh yeah the ps4's setup isn't too much of a problem

it just seems odd because whatever savings they're getting out of opting for 500gb over 1tb must be pretty minimal, making the decision to stick with 500gb in the first place of questionable judgement from my perspective

[don't let's]

Can you run games off external storage?

[Kalahari Inkantation]

Can you run games off external storage?

in the ps4's case, no, at least not at launch

[don't let's]

oh yeah the ps4's setup isn't a problem

it just seems odd because whatever savings they're getting out of opting for 500gb over 1tb must be pretty minimal, making the decision to stick with 500gb in the first place of questionable judgement from my perspective

something for the second or third model

[Kalahari Inkantation]

something for the second or third model

p. much

[ME##]

though as long as they do make it compatible within a year of its release i'm sure it won't be too much of a problem

i know.  it just seems odd how everything is currently 'well, that won't be working at launch' for the xbone.  it seems like microsoft is way behind this time around compared to sony.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i know.  it just seems odd how everything is currently 'well, that won't be working at launch' for the xbone.  it seems like microsoft is way behind this time around compared to sony.

yeah, even all of their television and cable and other multimedia features won't be nearly as extensive at launch as what we saw during the xbone reveal, and that's what they were touting as the xbone's most significant feature

[Samus Aran]

apparently to them a launch date is more important than launching a console that does anything