"Jasper" 360's on their way
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That would be begging people to pirate the games?
Hats off to MS for continuing to improve the 360 hardware, still some glaring problems that need rectifying though. Perhaps this will coincide with the rumoured Blu-ray version coming out. However I personally won't buy another one, will wait for the next gen before I spend more.
If anything it might make piracy harder. I think your assuming they would place the files with no drm on a pc compatible file system ? There would be in effect no dvd drive to flash. The cart would interface directly with the motherboard. So you see it would then need either some kind of trick cart (a la DS) or the entire console to be hacked so it could play games with no checks eg the original xbox.
A DS style piracy system is easier to do and more encouraging for pirates as you can store many games on 1 memory card compared to optical media and firmware piracy. It's undetectable too and doesn't void your warranty.
Indeed, both the PSP and DS are VERY easy to pirate because of the ability to play games from flash memory, doing the same for 360 would have the same result, IMO.
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An old school proprietary cart based system would be harder to pirate and faster, but would be more expensive- hence increasing the price of the games or the console to subsidise the cost.
A similar thing happened a couple of 'generations' ago, the N64 went with carts and the PS1 went with CDs. N64 games were stupidly expensive because of this.
For the next gen, I'd say its too early to have completely downloadable games as few countries have the infrastructure and bandwidth to allow multi-gigabyte downloads. What will they go for instead? We'll just have to look out for what experiments the major console players try out to guage what they are thinking of.
A similar thing happened a couple of 'generations' ago, the N64 went with carts and the PS1 went with CDs. N64 games were stupidly expensive because of this.
For the next gen, I'd say its too early to have completely downloadable games as few countries have the infrastructure and bandwidth to allow multi-gigabyte downloads. What will they go for instead? We'll just have to look out for what experiments the major console players try out to guage what they are thinking of.
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The redesigned 45nm one is coming next year as well. 
I'd bet on the blu ray + some form of HD caching system.
It encourages piracy more though because the hackers who hack for a purpose will then have their purpose (multiple games on one device) and see it as a challenge, just like how someone went out of their way to get multiple gamecube games on one Wii disc.
I really don't know why I used the word easy though, I meant to say likely =/
I see it as its no different from people loading the games off the hard drive with the xbox 1. The scene hasnt got the PS3 playing games from the HD which must be there goal esp with its upgradable hard drive and lack of blu ray writers. I think its no less likely or easier it just depends on the consoles protection. Optical or solid state if the console protection is cracked it makes no odds.