Xbox 360: Full Installation of Games to Take 10 Minutes, -30% Load Times

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mrstickball said:

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6194093/index.html?tag=top_stories;title;1

One of the not-so-cosmetic changes in the fall update will be the ability to let you play your games directly from the hard disk. The new feature will let users install all of the game content directly onto the hard drive to improve game load times. Microsoft reports that it has seen a 30 percent improvement in load times in internal testing. As an interesting data point, Microsoft went out of its way to tell a group of reporters that the full Devil May Cry 4 hard disk installation took roughly 10 minutes on the Xbox 360. The installation took twice as long when we conducted our own installation tests on the PlayStation 3. Another side benefit of having games installed on the hard disk is reduced noise, since the optical disc no longer needs to spin up. However, you will still need to have the game disc in your optical drive while you're playing it, presumably as a piracy check.

 

 

Wow. Half the time it takes for the DMC4 installation on PS3, the entire thing is copied in full.

Beyond good news. That means that installing a multi-disc game isn't going to take very long. If this comes to pass, talking about whooping the PS3 in every imaginable way concerning installations & load times. This would certainly make the Xbox 360 gaming experience on certain multi-platform games the far more robust, and better experience, no?

 

 

this certainly is a good option for xbox 360, but what of people who have a core/arcade or the people like me who have a 20 gig HD?

if the touted standalone 60 gig HD costs around £69.99 and the standalone 120 gig is lowered to £100 - dont you think thats a complete rip off just for quicker load times?

just imagine installing lost oddesee on a 20 gig(overwhelming mojority of 360 users have this) lets rough it down to 7 gig per disc

7 gig installed on HD times that by 4 = 28 gig on the HD

it would not even fit on a 20 gig.

im sorry but i do not buy this, although a very good addition to the xbox 360 it seems to as if microsoft are trying to get people to shell out extra on hard drive upgrades.

although as some other users have stated, on some games it might benefit, like oblivion and dmc4 and others like mass effect.