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If the main reson we can't have bigger worlds on 360/ps3 is because not everyone has a hard drive so not everyone would be able to make a big world, why not give us the options to create the classic, small, medium, and large size worlds for those who do have a hard drive. I already have a next gen system so I dont care regardless, just wondering for our friends who haven't upgraded yet.
According to this interview with Mojang's Daniel Kaplan it's indeed due to not every XBOX having a HDD. I really don't understand it either why the bigger worlds can't be optional.
Having a hard drive would give them ability to temporarily increase the amount of memory available to use by converting hard drive space to virtual memory. Having a hard drive is only part of the problem because you run into how big of a hard drive as well as space available on that hard drive. You also run into limitations imposed by Microsoft on file size of saved games. Minecraft world saves can be large in file size. Increasing world size will greatly increase the file size.
If the main reson we can't have bigger worlds on 360/ps3 is because not everyone has a hard drive so not everyone would be able to make a big world, why not give us the options to create the classic, small, medium, and large size worlds for those who do have a hard drive. I already have a next gen system so I dont care regardless, just wondering for our friends who haven't upgraded yet.
It's all or nothing.
Either everyone gets to do it, or no one gets to do it. Microsoft tries to support things evenly across all their different console models. The the Xbox One being uniform (not counting the model without Kinect) makes it capable of having larger worlds because everyone gets a console with a 500GB HDD. The only limiting factor on the Xbox One is the save file size that is allowed.
If the main reson we can't have bigger worlds on 360/ps3 is because not everyone has a hard drive so not everyone would be able to make a big world, why not give us the options to create the classic, small, medium, and large size worlds for those who do have a hard drive. I already have a next gen system so I dont care regardless, just wondering for our friends who haven't upgraded yet.
Of course... you're posting this because you "dont care regardless"... but you just cant resist trying to reopen, yet again, an argument that has been raging on these forums for two years now, can you?... I believe both MG and PurpleMushroomz have provided "the answer" (which has been stated time and time again). I'm just waiting to see how long it takes before the larger world on the next gen systems (at 36 times the size of the Xbox 360 and PS3 worlds) will become "too small" for you. Personally, I haven't upgraded yet because I don't want to.
Having a hard drive would give them ability to temporarily increase the amount of memory available to use by converting hard drive space to virtual memory. Having a hard drive is only part of the problem because you run into how big of a hard drive as well as space available on that hard drive. You also run into limitations imposed by Microsoft on file size of saved games. Minecraft world saves can be large in file size. Increasing world size will greatly increase the file size.
Either everyone gets to do it, or no one gets to do it. Microsoft tries to support things evenly across all their different console models. The the Xbox One being uniform (not counting the model without Kinect) makes it capable of having larger worlds because everyone gets a console with a 500GB HDD. The only limiting factor on the Xbox One is the save file size that is allowed.
Of course... you're posting this because you "dont care regardless"... but you just cant resist trying to reopen, yet again, an argument that has been raging on these forums for two years now, can you?... I believe both MG and PurpleMushroomz have provided "the answer" (which has been stated time and time again). I'm just waiting to see how long it takes before the larger world on the next gen systems (at 36 times the size of the Xbox 360 and PS3 worlds) will become "too small" for you. Personally, I haven't upgraded yet because I don't want to.