Microsoft to allow developers to make Xbox 360 games which requires hard disks
August 15th, 2007 Leave a comment Visited 34 times, 1 so far today
Microsoft to allow developers to make games which requires hard disks
Microsoft is going back on their promise that all Xbox 360 games would support all the versions of the Xbox 360 gaming console.
The company has now allowed the videogame developers to create massively multiplayer online role-playing games to require hard drive space.
A company representative said in a statement while speaking at GameFest in Seattle: “Feel free to require 30GB for your game — that’s just going to make your potential audience a lot smaller.”
Microsoft sells the core model of the Xbox 360 console without any hard disk. The gamers are free to buy the hard disk separately. But none of the games available in the market today have a mandatory hard disk requirement.
The company said that the game developers would be able to create a single “Master Storage File” on user machines as long as the server-based games explicitly state the amount of hard drive space required on the front of the game’s box.
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August 16th, 2007 at 02:51 pm
Interesting but inevitable. Strange that Square Enix released Final Fantasy XI for the Xbox 360 last year. You have to install the game on the hard drive . So that kills your line, none of the games on the market require a hard disk.