VGLeaks: First look at Durango XDK (always connected, kinect required, no play from optical discs))

[WereKitten]

VGKing said:

D-Joe said:

VGKing said:
There's no reason to block playing games from the disc itself. Mandatory installations aren't that bad if you only have to install a couple gigabytes, but forcing people to install the whole game onto their hard drive is ridiculous. I'm all for reducing load times, but I"m also for saving space and having not having to constantly worry that the next game I buy will fill up my hard drive.

I'm not sure it's problem or not since it said 720 can play the game few seconds after started the installtion

That means even you deleted the game,you can still play it again very quick

Doesn't matter how fast you can get into the game. The constant management of your games collection is going to be really annoying for people with smaller HDDs.

Is it really a problem in practical terms, especially if the system is half smart about it? We're probably talking of 300-500GB HDs, and of 15-40GB of installed data per game.

Even if you reserve 150 GB out of HD for saved game data, demos, music, smaller digital-only titles you still have space to keep installed data for your latest 5-15 games, maybe up to 25.

A half smart system will simply ask you when you insert a new disk "hey, I need to make space, can I use the space currently used for game X that you have not played in the last 5 months? If not, please choose one from this list of your last 10 installed games". One click, one time.

Housekeeping is not very frequent if you can keep 15 games installed.