Xbox ’720 info revealed by inside Source- also Microsoft will not block used games-

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TheJimbo1234 said:

thranx said:

TheJimbo1234 said:
If it doesn't use bluray, then expect all games to be downloaded.
If neither, then it is doa as dvds simply can't store nest gen games on them.

Computers seem to do fine without blu ray, I am sure the next box can too.

Not at all because they work very differently.

Computers instal the data rather than running it off the disc, thus compression can be huge, and you only need the engine on one disc, not all of them.  Also a lot of PC exlcusive titles are starting to take up vast amounts of memory eg. Napolean TW is ~25GB in size.

Consoles can't do this as they need the engine on every disc, so if you had a game which was 17GB of data, this would not be on two discs, but most likely 3 or 4 as the engine and vast amounts of data would have to be compied onto each disc.

So as I said, if not major cloud support or bluray, it's doa/not next gen.

Or they could simple have a proprietary format like the Wii U which isn't bluray and can hold 25 GB (which is probably enough for next gen games, with some very few exceptions that may require 2 CDs).