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tuscaniman99 on 02 July 2013

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It would take me about 5 hours then if that was the case. I download at about 2mb/s on Steam.



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MoHasanie on 02 July 2013

Wow, 8GB is a lot! People who own those 4GB 360's won't be able to play it.



    

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nuckles87 on 02 July 2013

8 gigs is cheap enough that they could just pack in a flash drive.



DeadBigfoot21 on 02 July 2013

Thats cool even though i dont care for disc swapping



piggychan on 02 July 2013
ArnoldRimmer said:
Huh? Mandatory install?

I'm a bit confused - I'm pretty sure I once read that Microsoft forbade mandatory installs for Xbox 360 games? (so it would be ensured that each Xbox 360 game runs on every Xbox 360, even those without a hard drive)


Pretty sure ffxi, forza 3 and 4 have install discs



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piggychan on 02 July 2013
Barozi said:

As I expected, here is the easy solution:

"One of these includes the question of size, with GTA V being the most ambitious and generously proportioned GTA game yet, dwarving Red Dead Redemption and GTA IV in scale.

This means that the Xbox 360 version will ship on two discs, one of which will be a mandatory install disc that will require 8GB of free space on your console's HDD. The second disc will then be used to subsequently play the game, which means no having to interrupt your GTA V experience to swap discs. Players with 4GB consoles can use a 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive for the install."

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-15424-Grand-Theft-Auto-V-To-Ship-on-Two-Discs--8GB-Install-Means-No-Swapping-Required.html


PS3 version also requires 8gb mandatory installation.

 

This initial install will require an Xbox 360 Hard Drive or an external 16GB USB flash drive with at least 8 GB of free space. If using a USB flash drive it must be at least USB 2.0 with a minimum 15mb/s read speed and formatted for Xbox 360 use. A new USB flash drive is recommended to ensure optimum performance.  For PlayStation®3, the game ships on one disc and will install content as soon as you insert the game. The install is roughly 8GB, and players will be able to play as soon as the install is complete.

 


Zappykins on 03 July 2013
sales2099 said:
RolStoppable said:
Another victory for Blu-ray.

This if anything proves how unecessary bluray is in the current gen

Zing!  Ten points for Gryffindor. (Plus this gen’s DVD drive can push more data per second than the Blu-ray. )

Plus, you can put up to two 16GB flash drives.

Actually, I makes me wonder when they are coming out with a 500GB drive for the X360 E, but that might confuse people with the Xbox One.  So perhaps never?



 

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Porcupine_I on 03 July 2013

Mandatory Installs? I do recall a lot of people complaining about these in the past, even though they didn't happen on the console they owned.



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ghettoglamour on 03 July 2013

Yesterday, after a hard day of work, I went home to play The Last of Us. The PS3 went on and to my surprise, the XMB showed Just Cause 2 as playable title. My kid must have been playing during my work. So I had to painfully stand up, make two steps to the console, get the JC2 disc out of the console, search the right spot for it in my game case which has hundreds of games in it, alphabetically ordered, search TLOU in the case, which probably might be on the wrong spot, as the kid likes to "forget" what I tell him, (ok it was on the right spot) and then pop it in and go back to the couch. It was an akward moment.



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regin2005 on 03 July 2013
brendude13 said:
oldschoolfool said:
8GB? dam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GDDDDR5!

This has nothing to do with memory/RAM.  The 8gbs is for HDD space.



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