Ban everyone under 25! j/k
Not sure, when did the launch date get moved before the 21st Century?
For a dashboard upgrade supposedly aimed at attracting the 'casual' audience, New Xbox Experience actually has a lot of love for the core 360 enthusiast gamer. The Party mode craved by Live users has been incorporated, tweaks long asked for have been made to the VGA/HDMI video outputs, but perhaps most surprisingly of all, Microsoft has allowed gamers to optionally install their games to hard disk. This is - potentially - a very good thing.
Eurogamer has never been a massive fan of the mandatory installations required on many PlayStation 3 releases. It has a fundamental impact on the 'plug and play' nature of console gaming, especially when you can be sitting about for up to 25 minutes waiting to play your brand new release.
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As the feature seems to suggest (as expected) that HDD caching takes place on 360s with HDD anyway, it would still have been really really nice to see some numbers on load-times on machines with and without a HDD.
I still in awe in how much you guys are discussing the install to hard drive feature. The majority of the users using the Xbox will not even use it and even if they do use it they will quickly and disappointingly find out that they still need the disc in the drive. People will not care if the drive is slightly less noisy or it shaves off mere seconds of their loading time. They only want the ability to load any game they have without the need of having to get off their couch and stick a disc in, just like they do with Live Arcade and their movies and TV shows. Until that happens all this in depth discussion of decibels and seconds is just farting in the wind. Hope you like the smell.
Tommy McClain
I don't think it'll be used much either, but that doesn't mean it isn't a good feature.
I know I'm installing a game on day1. It'll be hard to decide which one.
I'm trying Fable, since I've heard it makes the interface less sluggish.
It's a technology enthusiast board! We discuss everything console to the minutiae. If you don't like it, you are free to move on, rather than inviting yourself into people's conversations to tell them they are wasting their time with those conversations.Until that happens all this in depth discussion of decibels and seconds is just farting in the wind. Hope you like the smell.
Easily the biggest feature I am looking forward to when NXE hits!
There are other features? To me this is the "get rid of the jet engine noise" update. I can't wait, my 120GB does nothing else for me at this point.
I get the impression they are clearing old stock for the hard drive supplier.