Play from Xbox 360 HARD DRIVE - New feature

Some fantastic features coming there. Full credit to Microsoft here.
Taking the Xbox OS even further; party play taking Xbox Live further (something someone from here stated that MS wouldn't do only last week.. hmm ;):p).
 
Good to see MS keeping ontop of their game.

People shouldnt get too carried away with a HDD feature, firstly it will only speed up loading game time by 2-5 seconds on average. Well im sure some dodgy geezers here had Xbox 1 with a big mofo drive and copied games on that which loaded from HDD and from what i witnessed the loading times were approx in this amount of time faster, so no real big deal apart from cutting down wear n tear and DVD-ROM noise.

The other problem this brings is if these are full ISO transfers then your looking at anything from 2-8+ gig or so with an average say of 5 gig per game.

Do the math on even thier new announced 60GB models with all that game installing, new demos, video downloads, music etc space is soon going to be used up, even on the Elite 120 systems.

If anything its weird that Sony are continuing to push more as the leading system for general multimedia entertainment, including acting better as a HTPC device with their upcoming TV services including PSP connectivity and their much easier no hassle HDD upgrading the system still has a lot of its own advantages.

Great competition between the rival companies. Were MS usually win over Sony all the time is sticking to their target dates. The PS3 itself was a badly delayed system never mind this Home caper but still it looks like 2009 is going to continue to be an amazing console year.
 
i'm a bit disapointed after reading that Mr Latte as with a 20Gb drive you are only left with 10.?Gb free meaning i could have forza or GTA installed at any one time.

*sigh*

i'm assuming its not possible to crack open a 360 hard drive and put a bigger 2.5" drive in?
 
The one reason i sold my 360 was noise this is very intersting for me > is it a deff the hd game install's and no dvd spinning when playing games ?
 
Begbie said:
Play from hard drive, just me or has that just opened a can of worms for piracy?
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It's just you as the 360 piracy can has already been opened and violently spilt across the entire table. I don't think it can be opened twice? :p

360 games are often available for download before they are even in the shops and unlike PC games they work online too.
 
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Yes! Yes! Yes! The answer to my moaning about DVD drives noises. If this is as good as I think it's going to be then thank you very much MS and well done! :)
 
hehe think i shall go buy one tommorow er which one tho ?

thx jay.

ps.not got a clue on models thats why i ask sorry to come across dum like.
 
already my 120 gig hdd is almost full just from demos and game saves, I think there going to need to push out bigger hard drives in order to save games to it.
 
I said this in the FF thread, its good news and can't wait till defo resuce the noise from the console!

Without seeming thick, what is 16:10?
 
16:10 is an aspect ratio, like 4:3 or 16:9. It basically means you can play on more monitors without the image being displayed out of proportion.
 
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