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"Today's games and entertainment enthusiast has a insatiable appetite for digital high-definition content," commented Peter Moore, corporate vice president for Microsoft Xbox.
I can understand the reason for the 120Gb HDD, because all that high definition media takes up storage space. But as a gaming enthusiast, and not an entertainment enthusiast, I have no earthly reason to have an 'insatiable appetite for digital high-definition content' and am quite happy with my current 1Mb or so game saves here and there on my current 360 20Gb HDD.
Not being the owner of an HDTV, and I suspect I'm not the only one, there is no earthly reason for me to download game trailers, TV shows, music videos and movies in HD format. To be brutally honest with my eyesight I doubt I could tell the difference anyway.
So is the 360 Elite the new PSX? (For those with short memories the PSX was Sony's similar effort to make the PlayStation the central hub in the living room for all entertainment, it was basically a PS2 souped up with its own media centre and came in 160Gb or 250Gb HDD versions, and it sold so well Japan that Sony never bothered trying to sell it anywhere else).
Did Sony put all their eggs in High Definition before gamers were ready for it and is this a kneejerk reaction by Microsoft to bring out something similar, even though gamers still aren't ready for it?
Or is it just me that's not ready for HD, doesn't care about HD, just wants decent games to play on a decent games machine and is starting to think that Nintendo were the only ones with the right vision this generation?
It just baffles me why two of the biggest console game names in the industry are trying to morph what were already great games machines from last generation into something that they're not. It strikes me that HD buffs are going to opt for standalone top-of-the-line HD players (whether that be Blu-ray or HD-DVD), and games buffs are trying to opt for standalone top-of-the-line games machines but our choice is looking to become more and more limited with each passing year.
5 years from now I might be looking forward to a new Tamagotchi keyring.
> what the $#!7 is psx
An HDD-DVD recorder that also plays PS2 and PSOne games.
> Erm what? PSX is PS1.
The original PlayStation was commonly referred to by gamers as the PSX because internally at Sony it was known as the 'PlayStation Experimental' after Nintendo halted the joint Sony/Nintendo CDRom/SNES hybrid and Sony decided to continue development of the unit as a standalone games console for Sony to sell. When it was launched, it was called the 'PlayStation', the PSX or PS1 monicker given to it by gamers just stuck.
This is a Sony PSX.
As I said, you get what you pay for.
I wonder how expensive the Korean stuff is.... :D