Another Xbox 360 game leaked before the launch date... - by EvaUnit02
EvaUnit02 on 11/2/2009 at 11:17
Street Fighter IV for 360 has been leaked, it's not out officially until next week.
Another win for those within the industry using the "PC is a less viable platform because of piracy" scapegoat!
henke on 11/2/2009 at 13:19
So, in your estimation, what's the actual reason that the PC is seen as a less viable platform? Do developers who use this argument just have it in for PC-gamers or what?
Malf on 11/2/2009 at 13:50
It's less work making games for closed platforms such as consoles, and console games sell for more than their PC equivalents.
I think these are the real reasons many developers are shying away from the PC.
Ironically, I can already see Microsoft's QA behaviour driving a lot of indie developers back to the PC. The XBLA QA process is tortuously long and expensive.
vurt on 11/2/2009 at 15:19
Most people don't mod their Xboxes anyways, that's why the sales are way higher on consoles, i bet at most that like 5-10% has modded xboxes.. On PS3 you can't even mod the console to play pirated games.
Sulphur on 11/2/2009 at 16:04
Yeah, dun that just suck or what. You mod your 'box and after it RRODs M$ fuck you over and say your warranty's invalid and wants to jailz0r your illegal ass....... next-gen more like next wallet-rape amirite
gunsmoke on 11/2/2009 at 16:27
A ton of people mod the original XBOX. You can turn it into a media center, add large harddrives, play emulated games from the ps1 era back, etc.
Sulphur on 11/2/2009 at 16:34
And the PS2 too. They even got Linux on it somehow, and homebrew proggies that let you play avi files and stuff. Not bad at all, that last gen was. And far more reliable.
gunsmoke on 11/2/2009 at 16:42
Quote Posted by Sulphur
And the PS2 too. They even got Linux on it somehow, and homebrew proggies that let you play avi files and stuff. Not bad at all, that last gen was. And far more reliable.
Yeah, the Linux app was actually an official Sony release. I had a modded Dreacast the was pretty cool for the era. I basically made it a little PC w/no harddrive. Windows designed the operating system for DC, and people figured wasy to hack a lot of features back into it.
Ostriig on 11/2/2009 at 16:54
Quote Posted by Malf
It's less work making games for closed platforms such as consoles
This. I remember getting roughly the same response from a guy who had actually made it reasonably high up the food chain in this industry - we were talking about the whole PC vs. consoles issue, and he said that he preferred to develop for consoles for their controlled technical configuration, which for him meant that they'd have more time to focus on content as opposed to having to fix the compatibility problems inherent to the ever-evolving PC platform.
As for the thread topic - lulz. It's still not picked up a great deal, the bay has five torrents with less than 100 seeders on each, but it will. I remember a few days after FO3 got leaked, there was this one torrent with around 14000 seeders, I think. And you can imagine the s/l ratio.
And hold on, it's actually illegal to mod your Xbox? Under what laws? I mean, you could, theoretically, just mod it and never use any illegal software on it, thus never commiting an actual act of copyright infringement. What gives? 'Cause in my book, a mod chip isn't the equivalent of a kilo of cocaine or a gun silencer "just sitting in your basement".
Sulphur on 11/2/2009 at 17:01
It's not the mod chip per se; I don't remember the specifics, but I think if the BIOS is modified/the chip uses software that enables you to play pirated games, then you're probably going to be in trouble.
