Manhunt 2 Can Be Sold To UK Gamers

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PreciousRoi
Joined 3 Apr 2005
1483 comments
Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:29
tyrion wrote:
There's just one problem for 360? Can you guess what it is? All 360s have limited BC but only some of them have a hard drive? Thanks to Microsoft HDD mess up, many of you still won't be able to sample Manhunt 2 on 360, even if the BC can play it. Good one Microsoft, doh!

What the hell does the 360's BC, hard drive, or anything else have to do with this?
Is there a original Xbox version that isn't referenced and no one was actually mentioning?
Or were you comfusing and combining BC with DLC? I'm kinda working on this assumption, as you make more sense this way.

Anyone who wants BC and DLC on ANY 360 can get it (by adding or using a hard drive), this has been true since the 360 launch, and has not changed, nor is it likely to. The same cannot be said of BC on every PS3.

On to inflated egos...surprisingly not my own...nice of you to decree MS' SKU/pricing/hardware strategy as a "HDD mess up". You got some kind of statistics that have led you to believe this? Wouldn't surpise me at all knowing your penchant for that kind of thing. Or is this just some old-school tyrion MS hating? Uh...yeah...what I said...doh!

So it would really be illegal to import a game into the UK that has been denied a rating by the BFFC? Sounds fairly draconian to me...
tyrion
Joined 14 Oct 1999
1786 comments
Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:24
PreciousRoi wrote:
On to inflated egos...surprisingly not my own...nice of you to decree MS' SKU/pricing/hardware strategy as a "HDD mess up".

FFS Precious, you're intelligent enough to recognise the paraphrasing I was doing in that post and not use it to try and prolong an argument. Please go back and read what Joji wrote and what I wrote, I even copied his sentence structure and typos. All I did was swap the emphasis onto HDD instead of BC because we're talking about DLC.

And yes, any Core can be upgraded with an HDD whereas, so far, the 40GB PS3 can't have BC added without Sony wanting it, but we all know that the take-up rate of peripherals is pretty low.
PreciousRoi
Joined 3 Apr 2005
1483 comments
Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:00
Sorry, you give me too much credit. I didn't catch you switching to DLC. AFAIK, BC requires a hard drive, so the first time I was reading it I had to check and see if there was an Xbox version. I didn't come up with DLC until my third read through, and then I assumed you were saying one thing while meaning another (on accident). I also missed you copying his structure so exactly (Natually I caught the first two sentences), by the second reading I was totally focused on your words, since they didn't quite make sense now that I had verified that there was no Xbox version. Then I though it would be a BC DLC game, which didn't make sense either. If BC and DLC didn't both depend on the HDD I might have caught on before sticking my Croc in my oral orifice.

As for wishing to prolong an argument, I had no such intention. I certainly don't think that Joji has represented his position very well. That one bit just confused me at first, and then struck me as gratuitous and snippy (Since you were already nailing him on the whole ego thing). But that was my demonstrably flawed imterpretation of the moment.

Edit:On the subject of the subject at hand, it ain't gonna happen.
tyrion
Joined 14 Oct 1999
1786 comments
Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:13
PreciousRoi wrote:
As for wishing to prolong an argument, I had no such intention.

Well, there's me leaping to conclusions as well then! :-)

PreciousRoi wrote:
Edit:On the subject of the subject at hand, it ain't gonna happen.

I like the sound of "On the subject of the subject at hand" - I wish more forums had that approach.
PreciousRoi
Joined 3 Apr 2005
1483 comments
Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:41
Just sighted a mention of this on G4...in the single sentence they presented it less as a mere existence of a loophole than as an actual possibility though.
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