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[Carlo210]

 


Listen to the facts, end of discusssion!! There is no reason for this thread to be open after M_Hael says the facts. If developers want their game to use the HDD for cacheing, then they will. If they know they don't need it, then they'll design the game not to use it.

Just listen to M_Hael!




 

[Juancster]

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again it comes down to good design. A well designed game should NOT be loading LOTS of small files from disparate locations on the disk. It should load up a single file that is "The Chunk" of data required and contains ALL the little files packaged into usable form.

Good Point, end of discussion.    

[Foe-hammer]

"And I had the same conversation with the Xbox 360 guys. It's like, Xbox 360 doesn't make my life any better, and in fact, it makes it a lot worse, as you're telling me I can't count on having a hard drive."  

As you can see, Valve’s head honcho and former MS employee isn’t happy about the fact that developers can’t rely on the Xbox 360 hard drive and he’s probably not the only developer who feels that way. "

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Comments like these, from top developers, worry me.

It appears that not all developers are as optimistic as m_hael about the xbox not having the hdd standard.

[Deftech]

this hDD stuff drives me insane, it really does.

hardly any used it for xbox, the 360 will be no different.

the good devs will use it, and thats all that matters to me.

[Foe-hammer]

 

[twistedsymphony]

QUOTE(Foe-hammer @ Aug 30 2005, 12:09 AM)

I don't know who this guy from valve is, "fat ass Gabe", i just quoted him because valve is one of the top developers, and i thought his opinion would have some substance.