New Disc Format

In all honesty this should have been done the same time the HD DVD's were all the rage... Larger disc space less hassle in the future but as we all know that didnt happen. As far as the disc read issue is concerned its just a minor inconvenience. Especially when they say they will replace you xbox for you. Better late then never i guess...

Yep :) I think that microsoft is trying to compete with the PS3 and blu-ray, thats allBrianFantana15

That, and it will help keep people from burning games, with these new discs, because now people are going to have to find a new disc to burn on. Which can be difficult, and expensive.

Yep :) I think that microsoft is trying to compete with the PS3 and blu-ray, thats allBrianFantana15

Of course they are! Im happy they finally did this but this late? This should have been done ages ago...

Well thats pretty good I guess, maybe we won't need 2 disks for the next mass effect :lol: we can only hope :POverlord93

We probably won't need two discs anymore for games like ME, but games that required 3 discs (La noire) will be reduced to 2 discs. One can hope

[QUOTE="Overlord93"]Well thats pretty good I guess, maybe we won't need 2 disks for the next mass effect :lol: we can only hope :PJdez15

We probably won't need two discs anymore for games like ME, but games that required 3 discs (La noire) will be reduced to 2 discs. One can hope

[QUOTE="BrianFantana15"]Yep :) I think that microsoft is trying to compete with the PS3 and blu-ray, thats allJustaskaNinJa12

Of course they are! Im happy they finally did this but this late? This should have been done ages ago...

It is kind of late, also throw in the fact that the Xbox 720 is right around the corner, I don't understand it. They must have been getting complaints from developers, that's my only guess, because LA Noire was suppose to have 6 discs :O

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[QUOTE="BrianFantana15"]Yep :) I think that microsoft is trying to compete with the PS3 and blu-ray, thats allJdez15

Of course they are! Im happy they finally did this but this late? This should have been done ages ago...

It is kind of late, also throw in the fact that the Xbox 720 is right around the corner, I don't understand it. They must have been getting complaints from developers, that's my only guess, because LA Noire was suppose to have 6 discs :O

haha that's just disgraceful! 6 discs... damn... i remember that game lost odyssey had like 4 discs and FF13 had 3. I, also,was going to say with the new console coming out soon its like why now? so i completely agree... haha whatever though. My complaints are too minuscule to account for much. So no use in whining about it :S

It hasn't caused any problems for me so far so no complaints here, I'm hopin this really works out because I don't want to have tons of disks in the near future :?

I can't really say whether this is pointless or not because it hasn't been long enough. For all we know this update to the discs could have possibly been a test run for something that may be used with the Xbox 720 (or xbox next or Xbox 3), but as it stands right now for the Xbox 360 it is only helping. It won't make 2 disc games go to 1 disc (Mass Effect 2 was what 6 gigs per disc? 1 extra gig is doing nothing to help that unless that compress the games even more), but that does mean we could possibly get more uncompressed stuff which can mean higher quality. I just doubt they would have done something like this so late into the game if it was only going to help out for 1 or 2 years. I hope that Microsoft wouldn't do something if it didn't benefit them (I say them because it will always benefit them more than us, even though this does kind of benefit us) in the long run.Agent_Kaliaver

Thats actually a very good point! I never thought of that. But for the record I think every company (nintendo, microsoft, sony, etc) have all done things non-beneficial to their consoles. For example when the 360 first launched we got like a 16 gb memory and a 4 gb memory. haha to todays stands thats pure garbage. Wasnt enough to save anything! Sad enough to say i still have my 16 gb harddrive. Oh and I wont even start on the HD DVD extension either... To see if this actually benefits us I guess we will have to wait and see...