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    News - Xbox 360 new disc format rumoured to add 1GB

    Microsoft ditching partition on disc to add 1GB of storage space, or further anti-piracy measures?
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    Re: News - Xbox 360 new disc format rumoured to add 1GB

    i'm confused

    "Currently, a dual later DVD hosts 7.95GB of data, but 6.8GB of that space is taken up by a video partition and anti-piracy measures. Digital Foundry reports that this new format will see the 1GB partition ditched"

    so at the moment only 1GB can be used for the game it self?
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    Re: News - Xbox 360 new disc format rumoured to add 1GB

    That video partition is just a pain, I mean if something doesn't work in a DVD player do you really need a huge Xbox 360 logo to tell you that? The way it sometimes pops up on the 360 is annoying and pointless. And 1GB for anti-piracy? Seriously? Why not just use a wobble-track or something else physical instead?
    I just wish devs wouldn't be so scared to release games on two discs, I'd much rather have the game spill onto more media than miss out on some stuff they wanted to include but ran out of space. Most people I know install games now anyway so the extra disc would only be a minor one-off inconvenience.

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    Re: News - Xbox 360 new disc format rumoured to add 1GB

    Maybe they should just admit that HD-DVD failed?

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    Re: News - Xbox 360 new disc format rumoured to add 1GB

    Quote Originally Posted by snootyjim View Post
    Maybe they should just admit that HD-DVD failed?
    They did, so sold all the HD-DVD Drive attachments off for about £14 several years ago. HD-DVD's stored 15GB single layer and 30GB dual layer so space wouldn't have been much of an issue.
    Last edited by Kjnowak; 31-03-2011 at 12:20 PM. Reason: Oh so minor change...

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    Re: News - Xbox 360 new disc format rumoured to add 1GB

    Its 1GB extra for devs.

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    for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.

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    Re: News - Xbox 360 new disc format rumoured to add 1GB

    Quote Originally Posted by Kjnowak View Post
    They did, so sold all the HD-DVD Drive attachments off for about £14 several years ago. HD-DVD's stored 15GB single layer and 30GB dual layer so space wouldn't have been much of an issue.
    Right, but they haven't switched over to blu-ray, which would have been the logical approach.

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    Re: News - Xbox 360 new disc format rumoured to add 1GB

    Quote Originally Posted by snootyjim View Post
    Right, but they haven't switched over to blu-ray, which would have been the logical approach.
    but then it would mean that they would need everyone to buy new drives, and not everyone would have one, and thus creating a two tier market. the point of consoles is that everyone has the same basic hardware so all games can work on all machines

    my mate who's a programmer for one of the biggest and well known games was recently moaning about running out of space on xbox discs compared to bluray on the ps3. the last time i spoke to him before that he was moaning that ps3 was crap compared to xbox as it had half the RAM and kept crashing when porting to it so they had to spend ages rewritting to compensate

    he was also telling me that most games don't fit a full disc, and some of the game data is on the disc in a number of locations, so the xbox can load the data from the fastest part of the disc from where it is to save on seek time. i think he does all the geeky/tech stuff instead of the fancy stuff

    it's a shame hd-dvd didn't take off, i preferred that over blueray as it was region free

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    Re: News - Xbox 360 new disc format rumoured to add 1GB

    Quote Originally Posted by snootyjim View Post
    Maybe they should just admit that HD-DVD failed?
    At least HD-DVD was a standard. This is just stupid. They could still have used HD-DVD in the new 360 instead of a complete non-standard.
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    Re: News - Xbox 360 new disc format rumoured to add 1GB

    To be fair, if the 360 had a HD-DVD drive and HD-DVD games, Blu-ray would have had a fight on its hands and given the number of 360 users vs PS3 users at the time, there's a good chance it would have won. MS played that game a bit too cautiously. I mean I'm sort of glad the higher-capacity format won but region-free would have been good, and HD-DVD was meant to be more durable but I've not heard of any problems with Blu-ray.
    But really, there's no excuse to not use 2 discs if they're short on space, it would probably be cheaper than using Blu-ray anyway!

    @aidanjt: It's not a new standard, they're just scrapping the pointless 1GB partition currently reserved on game discs.

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    Re: News - Xbox 360 new disc format rumoured to add 1GB

    Reserved for what?
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    Re: News - Xbox 360 new disc format rumoured to add 1GB

    The DVD-video partition you see if you put the game in a DVD player and DRM stuff apparently.

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    Re: News - Xbox 360 new disc format rumoured to add 1GB

    I see, so it's not a format change after all, just a game partitioning revision.
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    Re: News - Xbox 360 new disc format rumoured to add 1GB

    From what I know, yeah.

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