Next gen Xbox disk installation required

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Earlier today, a few images of the "Microsoft Durango XDK Documentation Setup" leaked on the internet. This document is for licensed game developers only, and it reveals tons of unannounced information regarding the next-gen Xbox to the public. Much more has been added to the documentation since the last time it was leaked.

What really threw us off was the following:
"All games will be installed on the hard drive. Play from optical disc will not be supported."

What do you think? We'd say this is proof that they will include, at least, a 320GB hard drive in the base console at launch.

We also noticed that upon installation of the documentation, all of the tools and plugins needed for developers to create games are installed to Visual Studio 2012. Older versions of Visual Studio seem to have been abandoned.



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Rocky5Posted:

Reason for not supporting games off discs, is because blu-ray read speeds are slow & not adequate for gaming. Why do you thing the PS3 has mandentory installs & even then loading times are shocking.

Blu-ray minimum speed is 2x & max is 8x but in the consoles it would probably be capped to 6x to make the drive last as long as possible.

AdamuPosted:

Thats shit lol they will lose a lot of customers

SCOPosted:

MINECRAFTisCOOL Wait so if we install our disks to the Xbox then when we get the 720 will our games be on there with no extra cost?


Well if you have to buy it of xbox marketplace its guaranteed to be dearer than the normal price

OzarPosted:

MINECRAFTisCOOL Wait so if we install our disks to the Xbox then when we get the 720 will our games be on there with no extra cost?


yep they should be i would of thought.

MINECRAFTisCOOLPosted:

Wait so if we install our disks to the Xbox then when we get the 720 will our games be on there with no extra cost?

Soldier_Posted:

invalidslinky If you guys are able to read it, the thing says "play from the optical disk is not supported".


AKA you must install it in order to play it...

Soldier_Posted:

Centurial
EMT We're really gonna need a lot of memory space rhen


Sure hope the console has a lot of space on it, if it doesn't that just means another thing you have to buy.


Yeah it better!

CentPosted:

EMT We're really gonna need a lot of memory space rhen


Sure hope the console has a lot of space on it, if it doesn't that just means another thing you have to buy.

invalidslinkyPosted:

If you guys are able to read it, the thing says "play from the optical disk is not supported".

YamborghiniPosted:

I am really not liking this, I think its just a way of making people buy high gb versions of the console or buying bigger hard drives, Although it will save a'lot of Issues with laser burn.


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