Xbox 'Durango' Requires All Games to be Installed
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Blu-ray disc drive only used for distribution.
Rumors about an anti-used game system in the next Xbox -- codenamed Durango -- have swirled for some time now. Vgleaks posted a number of screenshots today, reportedly displaying information contained in the Durango Xbox Development Kit (XDK). The screens, which IGN sources have verified as accurate, confirm a number of rumored features of the next-generation Microsoft console, including a new high-fidelity Kinect sensor. But perhaps a troubling revelation for used game purchasers, the documentation includes a rather blunt reference to mandatory game installs.
Image Source: Vgleaks
"Every Durango console will have a hard drive, although its exact capacity has not been chosen," reads help documentation in the Durango XDK. "It will be large enough, however, to hold a large number of games. All games will be installed on the hard drive. Play from the optical disc will not be supported."
The documentation goes on to state Durango games will be distributed on Blu-ray discs, but the discs are purely used as a means to install data, and will not be read during gameplay. Also of note: the Durango will feature "Always On, Always Connected" online connectivity. Whether Microsoft will use the always-on functionality as a means of DRM is unclear; the documentation only mentions background updates, similar to those announced for the PlayStation 4.
Such a system could spell big trouble for used game retailers like GameStop, and even larger issues for gamers who depend upon the lower cost of second-hand discs
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If this puts GameStop or of business I'm all for it. Plus I'm getting a PS4.
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? gamestop.
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I think not being able to play used games is a big mistake
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? I might rock with the PS3 until at least this time next year and wait till the systems are out a few months before I decide which one to pick up.
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so how da ? you suppose to borrow one of your friends games or buy off em? ? that.
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damn Microsoft is ? up *chappelle voice*
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PS4 here i come.
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Lou Cypher wrote: »PS4 here i come.
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Lou Cypher wrote: »PS4 here i come.
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im pretty sure ps4 gone have some fuckery attached to it also.. but im waiting on the official news for BOTH of these systems.. im tired of rumors.. i need facts.. christmas will be here in a blink of an eye
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kanggoodie wrote: »im pretty sure ps4 gone have some fuckery attached to it also.. but im waiting on the official news for BOTH of these systems.. im tired of rumors.. i need facts.. christmas will be here in a blink of an eye
cosign. hate to say it but I can't imagine this "console war" being so one sided. PS4 seems like the perfect console while all the Xbox rumors has it being an afterthought. if that's the case MS is going to lose a lot of consumers.
Been a PS fan since day one so i'm going with sony anyway it just seems odd that the new xbox is ? up compared to the PS4
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The next XBOX has not been announced by M$ and we know nothing about it. That is all.
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Lou Cypher wrote: »PS4 here i come.
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Seems wack. I install all my games anyway.
Xbox need to drop some good news soon.