The fabled Fall update for the Xbox 360 (slated for this November) will give fans not only a new dashboard, but the ability to download games to their hard drives. The idea behind this is to streamline and compress load times. According to Boris Schneider-Johne, Xbox Product Manager Germany, only older titles will reflect dramatic changes and increased load times. Apparently the newer stuff will be as good as it gets.
…There are prominent examples, for instance: Project Gotham Racing 3, one of the first games for the Xbox 360. There the load times have been very long; those are going to get reduced immensely. Recent games are already optimized; there the gain is relatively small.
Despite the translation from the Golem interview, Schneider-Johne is quite clear as to the benefits that downloading a newer game on your HDD will have, and that is to say, almost nothing perceptible. At least I’ll finally be able to enjoy Enchanted Arms in all its glory this Fall.
[via GamersGlobal -- Thanks, Adam!]
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11:59 AM on 09.10.2008
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he looks cool as FUK!!
Anyway, can't wait for these increased load times. Seriously, though, I think launch era games will benefit greatly from the fact that the DVD won't be in constant motion. Maybe now I can actually hear the audio of some of them. Lookin' at you, Crackdown.
I might just have to do a third mass effect play-through this fall.
He also was a game journalist for the legendary German games magazine "Power Play" in the 80s, and he translated most of the LucasArts adventure games to German. This guy is the shit.
Although if what he says is true, that "Recent games are already optimized," I expect new games to have very short load times.
Ahh .. anyways, It will be nice to play a few games without the disc spinning and seeking all the time. Hard drives are still faster than DVD players for streaming.
i feel downloading is anything taken from the internet or off a network through a modem/cat5 etc. but thats just me.
you
-copy/transfer pictures from a camera to HDD
-install from a cd/dvd to a HDD
-download pictures from internet to HDD
-download music from your network storage drive to you HDD
but thats just me.
Also, not having to listen to my drive screeching on some games, new or not, will be a pretty massive improvement - screw loading times.
Wow, I feel like an idiot now. How the hell did his name not ring a bell with me? I've only been reading PowerPlay after he had left, but I did play the German versions of most LucasArts adventures then, and the translations were brilliant compared to some of the shit that passes as localisation these days. So I guess I should give the bloke a chance and watch his features on Inside Xbox.
Requiring an installation is a different story.
I must finish that joke of a game off!!