Durango Leak: All Games Installed Onto Hard Drives From Disc ‘Play from optical disc not supported’
According to VGleaks, the new Xbox will have all of your games installed onto the HDD and here’s the bad part. You can’t play the games on the disc itself!
Now this may sound like a terrible idea, but there is some sense in it being as it will speed up the loading times of games as a standard, in the XDK (see below) it will have a big enough hard drive to store multiple games, but I know someone who has quite literally, a shed load of Xbox games and no hard drive would ever be big enough for the amount of games he has! ( I’ve tried converting him to PS3, but he’s having none of it).
Amongst other things mentioned in the picture, were that the Durango will have a Blu-ray player, used for ‘distribution’ only. Don’t worry, as soon as you put your Xbox disc into the new console, there isn’t a 5 hour waiting time, you can play it straight away!
Every Durango console will have a hard drive, although its exact capacity has not been chosen. It will be large enough, however, to hold a large number of games. All games will be installed on the hard drive. Play from optical disc will not be supported.
Durango consoles will have Blu-ray disc drive. Disc media will be used for distribution, but during gameplay, games will not use content from optical disc. An installation system is being designed that will allow gamers to begin playing while the game is being installed on the hard drive rather than waiting until installation is complete.
The new console seems to have a similar feature like the PS4’s ‘suspend/resume’. Which is one of my favourite features of the PS4 personally.
Durango will implement different power states so that it can always be powered on, but will draw minimal electricity when not in use. The console will be ready instantly when users want to play,and will always maintain a network connection so that console software and games are always current. With this ‘Always On, Always Connected’ design, users will quickly and easily enjoy their connected entertainment experiences, with no waiting for the console to restart or install updates.
Wait, it can *always* be powered on?!?
I can’t wait to play my new Xbox on the moon!
Also, true to rumour, the overview says there will be a new ‘high-fidelity’ Kinect Sensor, and if not connected, the system will not operate.
Every Durango console will be sold with a new high-fidelity Kinect Sensor, which will be required for the system to operate. The console will provide HD videos, and will use new depth sensor technology to provide better screen resolution and less noisy depth data. Active infrared illumination will provide high-quality monochrome images even in low ambient light conditions. A wider field of view allows play in smaller spaces and removes the need for a tilt motor.
Just like the PS4 it will have a new and improved controller, which is apparently the ‘best-in-class’. I have to admit, the Xbox controller has a nice pair of…….. triggers. I could never get used to the Xbox controller though, it felt like learning a new language.
The Durango controller will make the best-in-class Xbox 360 controller even better. It will have low-latency wireless connectivity to the console, and improve ergonomics. System interactions that use the controller will be simplified to make them easier for noncore gamers.
Now before you cry, and then consider getting the PS4, at the top of the picture it says:
This documentation is preliminary and subject to change
(I’d still consider getting a PS4 though 😉 )
Do you like the idea that all games must be installed onto the Xbox?
Leave your comments below on what you think!
Xbox 360 has the controller
PS3 has free online
And PC doesn’t have to wait 5yrs 4 next-gen
plus the exclusives
Product Loyalty is a terrible thing…..
No one is better
Just, different….
Well said. It’s a bit like the groups in high school. In the end, they’re all students at the same school, as we are all gamers, whether we play on PC, Xbox, or Playstation.
Xbox 360 has the controller
PS3 has free online
And PC doesn’t have to wait 5yrs 4 next-gen
plus the exclusives
Product Loyalty is a terrible thing…..
No one is better
Just, different…..
***? ^
sorry for that!
install to hhd is a good idea..but it is a good idea if the games is downloaded & not from the bluray disk…whats the point buying the game in bluray disk if we cannot play using it…what the use of the bluray drive if cannot play games through the disk..there is really no need for bluray drive if they plan to go with this idea…overall not a good idea to me..waste of money for the bluray drive for mainly playing games…one day my hdd cannot stored all the games if im such a hardcore gamer.
If I can’t buy used and the games aren’t installing from a disc/storage media X I’ll be passing on this.
I’ll likely end up getting both of these as well as the Wii U in a few years time. As a previous commentor said, it’s cheaper waiting a few months for price drops, and they’ll likely still be releasing games for the current xbox/ps systems for a year or two more anyway.
The “install to HDD” thing’s fine with me as it’d reduce load time and read noise. Does the “no games from disk” mean you can’t play pre-owned games for the new console, or for previous gen consoles it might have backwards-compatability for? While I’d likely keep my current xbox/ps3, it would be an issue if it didn’t allow you to install/obtain online for free games you already own (the online for free thing could be implemented by reading the xbox/360 disk and finding a copy online to install for free).
As it were, this is all nothing but rumors at present, so I’m waiting on official info from MS for final decisions.
Sony has already said no BC for ps4 and I am guessing M$ going the same way. We will likely see digital classics like with ps2/ps1 and xbox on the current systems but don’t kid yourself in that they won’t be free. Look at the model Sony is using now for ps3 and vita and it will be more of the same. The publishers see this as an oppertunity to keep making money off their old properties and because so many knew people are coming into gaming that never bought or played older games they are going to keep selling them. I don’t mind paying for them again when they do an HD update like GOW, Ico, MGS, Beyond GE and sly cooper games, ect. IT is just when they put them back up like the ps2/ps1/xbox classics and want me to pay again that I get annoyed. Vita really *** me off in that Sony was promising some UMD transfer tool and then totally whiffed on it and now most PSP stuff is over $10 when you can buy the UMDs for like under 5 used. I would plan on keeping your old systems if you want to play old games as that plus the used game market is going to be the cheapest way!
Well every since the new dash I have installed most the x360 games I play to HD just because it does improve load times, and also helps the console to run quiter/cooler. It has helped some people I know keep their old phats running a lot longer than they should have. My problem with this is that for streaming video it is sort of stupid. Games will use higher res/higher bit rate streaming video for cut scenes and there is zero reason why this should be installed to HD. It is just a waste of space and sequenceal streams actually play smoother from optical disk as there is no fragmentation and such. The model ps3 uses is good in that the bulk of the game gets installed for speed but the audio/video streams come off disc (unless you are using CFW…teehee). Also when they talk about always on/always connected that makes me think they will be using some type of constent DRM *** like new PC games like simcity are using. I hope for their sake that isn’t the case as I still want a console I can play offline. Honestly I never cared much for Kinnect other than as a gimick so I would rather put my money into superior hardware like the ps4 is reported to have than twoards an enhanced kinnect controller. I buy them all eventually but for me it will be ps4 first this generation and maybe durango at some point later….not sure because I am tired of Halo and nothing else M$ does first party means *** to me…..already got a wii-u and honestly Nintendo and Sony have so many good first party IPs I think microsoft is in trouble in the next generation, especially if they keep the pay to play online stuff when Nintendo and Sony’s are free!
Durango? what kind of name is that? Orbis was cool, had this nice ring to it, but Durango?, I can imagine it at a game store:
“yes I’d like to buy a durango”
to be honest it sounds like the name of a condom manufacturer
Why don’t they just focus on their 1st ‘console’……… the pc? Obviously their ‘anti-piracy’ console plan isn’t working out.
Im only on xbox for Halo.
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Optical is a bottleneck… why would you use it… other then distribution…
If you were to play from Disc you would just be caching to HDD anyway.. Waiting on the cache.
the scary part if the system crashed coz of memory or whatever reasons and what if you can’t retrieve your game data and hope the people behind xbox will replace the game you had even you got the disk.. what if you download it in the store? .__. and something happened? waaaa
After reading this. I think that Microsoft saw what Sony has for the PS4 so that they can copy Sony.
– Suspend/Resume feature is the PSP/PSVita main reason to continue your gameplay.
– A new XBox that needs a Kinect or else the whole unit won’t work.
I’d rather stick to Sony since they have Touchsrceen without a Stylus.
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