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Microsoft and Digital Downloading

MakraMakra Registered User new member
edited June 2009 in Games and Technology
Only providing a 120GB HD as their largest storage does not sit well with me. I already have mine bursting at the digital seams. The thought of having to download, delete, and re-download games much like the Wii makes me shudder. I no longer download classic games on the Wii out of inconvience, and do the same with Xbox Live arcade games. When will the 3 powers at be listen to what the community really wants, portable hard drive! Let me back up my files by usb on a 1TD hard drive and store 100's of games rather then 6...Next thing you know, xbox will let you trade in your 'used digital copy' for xbox live points. Completely cutting out GameCrazy, GameStop, EB, and play n' trade. Microsoft I give you a "meh" at best for this anouncement.

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  • EvanderEvander Disappointed Father Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    What announcement?

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  • MinionOfCthulhuMinionOfCthulhu Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Evander wrote: »
    What announcement?

    http://kotaku.com/5274406/microsoft-offering-360-games-on-demand-starting-august
    This one, I'm assuming. Come August, you can download 360 games. No word on price yet.

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  • RainbowDespairRainbowDespair Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Evander wrote: »
    What announcement?

    Probably the announcement that full retail game like Mass Effect, Lego Star Wars, Crackdown, etc. will be available for download on the 360.

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  • Jubal77Jubal77 Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I personally have 90gb left. Then again I play games off of the disks and stream movies from my computer. With netflix added in there is no reason for me to buy alot of the media that they have on the store. The majority of the space is taken up by arcade games and guitar hero songs. Unless they end up going the PS3 route I dont see myself using up alot of the space on my 360.

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  • EvanderEvander Disappointed Father Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    eh, no interest

    that much money for something with zero resale value if I get tired of it is silly

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    my 60gb drive is full, but i'm doing that by rotating 3 different discs installed to drive at a time.. could easily drop down to 2 discs installed if i wanted more space.

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  • RandomEngyRandomEngy Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I'm a little bit surprised. I knew it was coming, but not this soon. The proprietary hard drive issue does make the situation a bit stickier. I'm hoping the next console version allows any SATA hard drive and requires every game to be downloadable at launch.

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  • MakraMakra Registered User new member
    edited June 2009
    Jubal77 wrote: »
    I personally have 90gb left. Then again I play games off of the disks and stream movies from my computer. With netflix added in there is no reason for me to buy alot of the media that they have on the store. The majority of the space is taken up by arcade games and guitar hero songs. Unless they end up going the PS3 route I dont see myself using up alot of the space on my 360.
    I understand that there are ways to get around filling up the hard drive. My point is that Microsoft is implimenting a cool idea w/o the means to follow through. The thought that they will allow a midnight launch download of a brand new game is appealing. I like the thought of being able to pre order the game, have it qued up for download as soon as it's available, thus skipng the store and getting to the playing. I don't like that with the current proprietary equipment that is over priced I will have to manage all my media. How about they add a DVD burner. Let me buy online, then burn a DVD of the game so I can play from a disc w/o taking up hard drive space when a new game comes out.

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  • Spiffy MageSpiffy Mage Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I don't see them adding a DVD burner for copy-protection reasons, since it would be pirated like crazy. I'd prefer being able to use a USB hard-drive, even if it means the console does some wonky formating to it so only the 360 can read from it.

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  • slash000slash000 Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    RE: op
    you know you can download your WiiWare/VC games straight to SD card, and launch them from there, and it supports 32 gig SD cards now.. Just fyi in case you wanted to download any of the awesome games available on the service, but were concerned about space. Hell even if you only have a 2 gig card it's hard to fill it up with VC/WiiWare since the filesizes aren't typically too big.

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  • MakraMakra Registered User new member
    edited June 2009
    Hmm it's been a long time since I have looked at the Wii stuff....Last time I did anything Like that I could not launch straight from the SD card. I had to shuffel around the game from the card to the Wii channels to play them. Even if that is that case Nintendo at least has a way for you to Add storage. Microsoft does not. I could use their 64mg or 512 meg for small files like you suggest, but no way BioShock 2 would fit on a mem card for xbox.

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  • Jubal77Jubal77 Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Makra wrote: »
    Jubal77 wrote: »
    I personally have 90gb left. Then again I play games off of the disks and stream movies from my computer. With netflix added in there is no reason for me to buy alot of the media that they have on the store. The majority of the space is taken up by arcade games and guitar hero songs. Unless they end up going the PS3 route I dont see myself using up alot of the space on my 360.
    I understand that there are ways to get around filling up the hard drive. My point is that Microsoft is implimenting a cool idea w/o the means to follow through. The thought that they will allow a midnight launch download of a brand new game is appealing. I like the thought of being able to pre order the game, have it qued up for download as soon as it's available, thus skipng the store and getting to the playing. I don't like that with the current proprietary equipment that is over priced I will have to manage all my media. How about they add a DVD burner. Let me buy online, then burn a DVD of the game so I can play from a disc w/o taking up hard drive space when a new game comes out.

    That gets back to something someone else said. There is no resale value there which I understand is something game companies have been working towards. I am just an old school gamer at heart I guess. Digital format is neat and all but it lends itself too much in terms of backups and things of that nature. Kind of goes back to the whole "What if EA shutdown?" argument when Spore was released with the activation required disks. I still like to play old school games like Dungeon Keeper.

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  • JelloblimpJelloblimp Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Datel has now a memory card that can use Micro SD-cards for up to 16gb of space. Still, Microsoft really needs to re-think their harddrive-policy if they want people to purchase digital 360-games.

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  • CowbombCowbomb Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    RainbowDespair wrote: »
    Evander wrote: »
    What announcement?

    Probably the announcement that full retail game like Mass Effect, Lego Star Wars, Crackdown, etc. will be available for download on the 360.

    And Sonic 2006! :D:D:D
    D:

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