You need HDD for 360 Burnout Paradise online
Category: Xbox 360, Posted: 01/31/2008 at 04:00PM CST by Demetri Kouvalis, Features Editor
Burnout Paradise has been getting a lot of praise from gamers as the best Burnout yet, with great graphics and entertaining online play. But for the Xbox 360 version, you'll be needing a hard drive in order to race your friends online.
Reports from gamers are starting to come in saying that in order to go online with Burnout Paradise for the Xbox 360 version, you will need a HDD, which means Xbox Core and Arcade owners are out of luck. Videogamer.com looked into this some more and noticed some fine print on the back of the box that says "Online multiplayer 2-8/hard drive required."
A user on Maxconsole.net contacted EA support and received the following reply via email:
"The hard drive is needed to store temporary data when playing online as the data transferred from one console to another requires storage space greater than what the memory card can contain."
Could this be a way for Microsoft to push Arcade and Core gamers to upgrade and get a HDD? I wouldn't be surprised if they are going down that road, and future games might have the same excuse for having a hard drive in the future.
Besides, these are "next-gen" consoles--what are you doing with an Xbox and no hard drive? If you don't plan on downloading demos, shows, or arcade games, then a Nintendo Wii might be better for your needs.
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"If you don't plan on downloading demos, shows, or arcade games, then a Nintendo Wii might be better for your needs."
=/
Ever heard of Virtual Console?
Virtual what?
emulators ftw
Crackdown did this almost a year ago. Though it's online was riddled with latency issues, which aren't in Burnout unless you're playing with someone half way around the world.
*glares at jambo.*
most people have the hdd anyway at least imo
They should make the HDD standard already. All streaming hiccups in games could be smoothed over if the developers could assume that there's a hard drive present to cache data on.