download full games off of live

citizen X · 19-03-2006, 06:09 PM

This article is talking about MS's newest project. Their working on a way for gamers to download full games form live. Probably to compete with the claim that the PS3 will have full game downloads off its online service.

If this is true then the problem with the small capacity hard drive will need to be handled.. It’s already too small, imagine downloading whole games. guess thy'll need to come out with a 100g HD if this ends up in the live service.

link: http://gaming.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=5090

Quote:

GetXbox.net claims that Microsoft's latest project for the Xbox 360 will see fully downloadable Xbox games available at a price. The first game is said to be the full version of Halo, available this summer.

It's unknown at this point whether the games will exclusively be Xbox 1 games or whether some of the latest games will be available.

It makes sense that the initial batch of games will be the best sellers from the extensive range of Xbox titles. At what price though? Currently you can pick a copy of Halo 1 from Ebay for as little as £5, and it's always nice to have a manual to hand.

oh and just to put it out there my good friend Papasmerf001 predicted the ability to download full games off of Xbox live before the 360 even launched ..i guess he was right, it may be coming

Wingman1977 · 19-03-2006, 06:45 PM

They'll compress the files so they'll won't take that much space.

Shotty · 19-03-2006, 07:49 PM

Demos like Project gotham racing are already over 1 Gb and most 360 games are like 3Gb to 4Gb so if they compress it and bring in background downloading I dont see this an issue. But I read somewhere that xbox 360 is capable of downloading a 4Gb file max. So over that and it will have to be broken into pieces and then downloaded, which is good just incase the file is corupted you can just re-download a little chunk instead of the whole thing.

camwilson04 · 20-03-2006, 01:24 AM

that would be cool, but for the time it would take 2 download why not just go the shops and buy it..
its still gud though coz now i have the option

citizen X · 20-03-2006, 06:41 PM

they talk about old xbox 1 games for now, so i dont think size is going to be a big prob. if they compress..

spankytheking · 17-04-2006, 01:23 AM

the drive is fat32 which means u cant have a single file transferred on there over 4giggabiggles. a group of small files is another matter

Don_Rico · 17-04-2006, 03:10 AM

Seems like a cool idea. Though myself I prefer to have my games on discs, not on a HDD.

camwilson04 · 17-04-2006, 03:23 AM

yeah,if sumthin happens to that hd u have to pay for the games and the hd, i wonder if it will be like arcade game su can go to a freinds house download the game but u can only play it on your gamercard