Install your Xbox 360 games to the hard drive, access XBLM on the web

by Andrew Yoon on Jul 14th 2008 4:11PM

Major Nelson just updated and offered a bit more detail about the upcoming Dashboard update for Xbox 360. Some of the cooler things:

Play from hard drive. You'll be able to copy game discs to your Xbox 360 hard drive. Installing the games will prevent wear 'n tear on the disc drive, and will shorten load times. You will still need the disc in the disc tray to prove you own the game. Hopefully, installing things on the Xbox 360 will come with sage advice, a la Metal Gear Solid 4.
Access Xbox LIVE Marketplace on the Web. If you're not near your Xbox 360, you can still use this "Internet" thing to browse and purchase things from the Marketplace. Once you purchase something from Xbox.com, it will download automatically to your console while you're away.
Xbox LIVE Primetime. This is a "whole new category of games" that not only supports Achievements and leaderboards, but will also offer real prizes. Games are played throughout the Xbox LIVE network and each game is "broadcast simultaneously" so that everyone is partaking in the same activity. These events can feature live hosts, "calling the shots as they happen."

[Thanks, Glitch W.!]

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Tags: breakingnews, E3, e3-2008, hard-drive, install, installation, major-nelson, xblm, xbox-360, xbox-live, xbox-live-marketplace, xbox-live-primetime

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OMG 16:10 resolution :D

my life is now complete (yes i play my 360 on a 22" monitor :P)

They increased the resolution :O

I'm glad I have my Big HDTV.I love it so much.

Optional install is a pretty cool feature. I don't mind the installs on the PS3 when I have used them, and yet it being an option is a pretty big feature.

For me, 16 x 10 support and 8 person chat were the most exicting things I read.

Web access to the marketplace is good.

So does this mean with Lost Odysessy, I can install the 4 disc on the HDD and when I want to play the whole game I can just use the 1 disc in the tray?

You just brain my exploded.

Yeah, if you want to fill up your 360's HDD with over 30 gigs of content for just Lost Odyssey...

This would also be nice for FF13, if it was multiple disks.

M$ is definitely not playing around with gaming this year. It looks like someone or something awakened the sleeping giant. I have a feeling that Sony wasn't prepared for all of this. I know I wasn't. I'm still trying to get over that ff thing.

8 person chat is a big deal, too. I like playing Halo online with my friends, but I don't like hearing all the lowlife chatter (and it makes one of my friends go insane with rage). We always go into private chat, but when there's more than 2 of use we just have to mute everyone who speaks.

So they are officialy now a ps3. Its sad.

Just to add to my thing, its also sad that they are doign a better job than sony at being the ps3.

You are officially now a douchebag. It's sad.

I wonder if multidisc games (like the newly announced FF) can be completely installed and will only require the first disc. If so, who cares about BR for anything but movies?

If I go online to xbox.com or whatever, and I select "download demo" will it remotely turn on my 360 to start the downloading process? if so, that's total win!

I already use my PSP to download AND INSTALL!!! demos on my ps3 while i'm taking a dump. it's a must have for as slow as a process it is on PS3.

As nice as this feature will be...

Its worthless until I can go and buy a high capacity drive from seagate or other manufacturers and put it into a hard drive enclosure which attaches to my xbox. An enclosure sold by MS, that lets me put a 500GB drive on my xbox.

For gods sake, I can get a 500GB drive from seagate for the price of the 20GB drive.

This feature would be awesome if MS didn't rape us with HDD prices.

Wait a min...I just read something...FFXIII is ocming to the 360? Is that CONFIRMED!?

IF SO...

FUCK YES! FINAL FANTASY XIII IS COMING TO THE 360!

THE PS3 is OVER AND DONE WITH!

Suck on that sony fanboys. Enjoy 3rd place this generation.

lol

And being a Microsoft fanboy is so much better?

Um...........okay.

Though now I have sorta given up on the PS3 not because of it losing exclusives and all, but because of its poor build quality, my Blu-Ray drive broke, happening to others, 2.40 and 2.41 messing up PS3s, etc.

Why don't you jump in the thread on that topic?

@ Nato

Is it still going on...

Plus its a huge clusterfuck of over 300 posts so I'm hoping JOystiq creates a new post to reiterate what we know so far.

And for the record to all the sony fanboys from Day 1 I've said that FFXIII was the game that might make me buy a ps3. Well that's never going to happen now. I've never once said it was a bad game or that it's not important.

God I love my 360!

Awesome. Now for the love of science... lower the price on the 120gb hard drive, or let people use their own hard drives in the 360 like the ps3 does.

Amen!

Science help us!!

+1 for the reference to an awesome episode.

This is a VERY COOL feature but most 360 owners have the puny 20gb HDD.

Microsoft, you have so much to download, so much content to offer and then these proprietary, overpriced hard drives!

Why couldn't you have gone Sony's route, let us shove a 320gb 2.5" HDD in there!?!?!?!? : (

I am not paying $180 for the 120gb HDD!!! >: (

Now I really wish HDDs were non-proprietary.

Most of the noise older Xbox's make when playing games comes from the DVD drive, so installing games as an *option* for a quieter box could be awesome. Mandatory installs need not apply.

I was hoping MS would also integrate a web browser, as the Wii and PS3 have done.

Sure, my computer nearby will always be a better web browser, but I'd be nice to occasionally browse on my large HDTV. : )

But damn, this is pulling me further from the PS3, now if they can also get an external Blu-Ray drive.......

If your computer's nearby, you could always set your computer to use your HDTV as a monitor.

Finally, a reason to purchase an Elite.

If people go nuts with this, an Elite isn't going to help them

You're going to need five elites, and duct-tape 'em together or something

For me, it'd probably only be a couple of flavors of the month and then mainstays like Rock Band. 5 is probably about all I need.

See, this is what this generation is about. Not about putting a new coat of shiny on everything, but about changing the way we interact with our games. User-generated content, custom avatars, downloadable games, remote content management, and yes, such controller differences as voice recognition, vision cameras, handheld interaction, and waggle. This generation is the Interaction Revolution

Not sure if it was mentioned, but installing to HDD = no 360 optical disc whirr! Best thing I've (not) heard all day!

This.
is.
awesome.

Now my disc drive won't go apeshit when playing GTAIV anymore.

Or Mass Effect.. regret buying MAss Effect PC now...#$%#%#^&ing MS.... if only this update came out like months ago..

It's funny, the GUI looks a lot like the PS Store to me. Also a bigger hard drive will probably be necessary.

What's Andrew Yoon doin in mah Xbox 360 news?

Andrew Yoon is everywhere. Ninja of the joystiq family, he strikes where you least expect it

Thus; http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2007/03/08/gdc-07-pokemon-battle-revolution-impressions/

The hard drive install could really pay off for games like Mass Effect.

"Play from hard drive."

Sweet! Only thing that worries me is that I'm wearing out my super-awesome-we-make-you-pay-more-for-standard-hardware-because-we-can HDD quicker.

perhaps this is the yet another step by Microsoft towards doing away with the game disk?? they already have original xbox titles on the XBLM... why not do the same with 360 games?? a-la-iTunes and the music industry

I tried to read through most of the comments before posting my comments. I have been telling my frineds that Microsoft should look into game installs for a year now. A low capacity disk like a DVD would not matter so much if you could install full games. most current games fit on a single DVD however as the developers get more familiar with the power of XBOX you can bet that multiple DVD games are gonna be more common. Blue-Ray capacity becomes null and void if you can install games.

Can you fill up you hard drive fast? Yes but I wouldn't expect to keep every game on the drive. Just the one or ones I am playing at the time.

Having disk one in the drive makes sense. Has anyone ever owned a PC? It helps prevent stealing by borrowing someone's game and installing it on your system (Yes, Pc games usually have a work around you pirates!)> If a company can't make money guess what, they go bankrupt and the games you love won't get made.

Less use of the drive = less noise. THank god! My Xbox sound like a plane engine! Cooler system also = good thing!

Great Job Microsoft!

Ok, I would be very excited about this if it didn't say "You will still need the disc in the disc tray to prove you own the game". I used to use GameDrive on the PC which loaded ISO images and it made it very convenient to go to LAN parties (I didn't have to carry my CDs). It would be uber cool if MS would figure out a way to allow this. I know they won't because then people would just rent and load or borrow and load. Maybe when disc media goes away and everything is downloadable then we won't have to worry about tagging media at all.

hi
I have been reading all the write up's about the new 2008 xbox 360 fall dashboard update and it seems that we won't be able to just install the game onto the HDD and play it off the HDD it appears that we will have to still have the game in the tray even though it won't play off the disk. I think this is so that people don't just go down to blockbuster and rent a brand new game and install it on the HDD and save them selves a bit of money. Also i have seen that you guys don't want to upgrade your HDD's to the 120GB HDD because it costs to much, my solution would be to go and buy an external USB HDD from pc-world or somewhere like that because i have seen that you can get a 500GB external HDD from pc-world for round about $100.

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I'll wait to mod my 360 when they figure out a mod to Bypass the Disc verification thingamagig. Like my original Xbox 100 games on 1 machine and access at your fingertips

You can see where they're coming from with having to put the disk in to combat piracy. It would be nice, however, if you could somehow add the game to your xbox live account as you can with Steam on the PC. You would need to buy the game disk as with HL2, but you could then play it from the drive without needing the disk, and piracy isn't a problem.

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