Microsoft looking into a new format for next generation xbox?

[thismeintiel]

SvennoJ said:

thismeintiel said:

While a HDD is faster, it doesn't necessarily mean the game will need it.  I mean just look at many PS3 exclusives, i.e. Killzone and Uncharted, that don't require an install, yet are some of the best looking games and don't have ungodly load times.  I would imagine next gen games should be able to pull off the same thing, or better, with an 8x drive.  Of course, there's always the 12x option.    I'm sure those will be relatively cheap by 2013.  Though, that may be overkill.

That's exactly what I mean. Those games use the HDD as cache. They might be slower if reading and writing were done on the same physical device as is the case with Halo 3.

With a 8x drive you can display blu-ray quality fmv while loading 30mb of game data per second and decompress it to HDD cache. There should be no need for any initial install next gen.

Oh, lol.  Sorry, misunderstood you.  Thought you were speaking of initial install plus Blu-ray speeds.