- "There's nothing to announce" right now regarding a keyword search for the Marketplace. We hope for some kind of searching option or a better layout for content
- Playing games from the hard drive will work fine for multi-disc games; in fact, you can pick which discs you want to rip (but a disc swap for the correct disc in the drive is required)
- As an example, Joystiq was told that Devil May Cry 4 is approximately a 4 or 5GB installation and takes about 10 minutes to copy onto a harddive: PS3 installation is roughly 18-25 mins
- You'll need to keep the disc in the drive the entire time. This is about speeding up load times and to check if you own the title -- the disc will not spin so no more jet noises
- Xbox 360 notifications look the same but are actually very cleaned up and look sharper -- the sounds are all the same
- Yes, you can still use your gamertag pics and your themes (they look cleaner and more crisp now, an example of what it could look like is above) -- example of a gamerpic in action is in the top right corner of the image above
Gallery: New Xbox Experience
Reader Comments (Page 3 of 5)
7-18-2008 @ 5:50PM
ryan said...
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i meant you could exchange the game back to retail or gamefly with the fake disc.
this new setup requires that you prove that own all discs. it isn't like Oblivion GOTY edition where you can basically give all your friends the Shivering Isles expansion, lol.
even PS3 doesn't allow you to play the game without inserting the disc, unlike some PC games.
7-18-2008 @ 5:58PM
h0mi said...
I have 2 requests. Its a shame that the disc still has to be in the drive all the time but ok. no biggie.
1- Let me put a game disc in an hd-dvd drive so that I can show that I own 2 different games, and let me play off the HDD for each game.
2- On my gamerpic, I created a personal one once. Now I'm doomed to walk the earth with 2 different ones and the system will always force me to update my gamerpic twice whenever I want to update it.
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7-18-2008 @ 6:03PM
UNSCleric said...
LMAO at doomed to walk the Earth. That is annoying though.
7-18-2008 @ 6:06PM
ryan said...
ok, so you'd want to rent a game then load it and never want to use the disc again?
piracy much? microsoft isn't that stupid yo.
7-19-2008 @ 3:07AM
h0mi said...
@ryan- no.
MS is reading the disc in the DVD drive to prove you own it. So why not let me put the disc in an HD-DVD drive to serve that same purpose? So I could play Halo 3 and then without having to replace the optical disc (because it's in the other drive) I could play, say, COD4
7-19-2008 @ 8:14AM
ryan said...
because maybe the HD-DVD drive doesn't play games and won't register ownership?
7-19-2008 @ 5:28PM
h0mi said...
ryan- that's why i'm asking MS to let the HD-DVD recognize that there's a game in the drive. It's not being played off the drive but merely being checked. It would be great if MS would allow this.
7-18-2008 @ 6:02PM
UNSCleric said...
The only thing I've ever wanted is to be able to select which notifications I receive. Like I want to only get a pop-up for messages and achievements, and maybe invites. They should just have 4 or 5 checkboxes that you can select from depending on what kinds of notifications you want.
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7-19-2008 @ 6:33PM
Sentox6 said...
Amen to that. I can't really live without achievement notifications, but I couldn't care less if one of my friends just signed on. And in games like DMC4 and DoA4, it goes from being annoying to distracting enough to cause me to screw up.
7-18-2008 @ 6:05PM
Dwag said...
Still a big problem for me is that the Avatars look ugly. I want them to look more realistic and yeah right now having the Rare guys do it was the wrong idea. They still have a couple of months get some new people on board or look at the reception no ones buying into it. MS get new developers to make the Avatars, they can get the Second Life guys I mean come on they are the best at making these things.
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7-18-2008 @ 6:09PM
ryan said...
how about:
NO avatars?
7-18-2008 @ 6:23PM
ToroBull said...
New layout appears to royally suck. Miis and Avatars are fugging gay. I didnt spend $400 on my (twice bricked ~!!thanks RROD!!~) 360 to give a crap about a gamer picture / avatar.
MS, Put in a browser. Kill the blades. use the free space to let owners customize their backgrounds. Move these ads...I pay for the LIVE service..why are you still advertising in my face?
You guys are smart enough right? How about you do something that doesnt blow asscock!?
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7-18-2008 @ 7:24PM
Etchasketchist said...
You're allowed to say fuck. This is the internet.
7-18-2008 @ 6:33PM
Arnon said...
I'm a little confused.. and I know it's probably not possible, but the PS3 has an internet browser.. does that mean they could illegally stream Netflix to the PS3? O_O. It would probably allow Microsoft & Netflix to sue Sony.. but is it possible?
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7-18-2008 @ 7:38PM
therza2169 said...
The PS3 internet browser sucks complete ass. It has an old version of flash installed and it constantly runs out of memory, so you have to close the browser and open it again. So no you can't stream Netflix movies straight through the browser, but you can stream it to the PS3 from a computer running different kinds of software. The only thing I use the browser for is to check if my buddies are online while I am watching TV lol.
7-18-2008 @ 11:09PM
Arnon said...
I just don't get it then... Microsoft stated "The 360 will be the -only- gaming console to be able to use Netflix."
7-18-2008 @ 6:39PM
Eddie said...
Those damned Avatards will be fine as long as when I crank on the fatness, the thing actually gets offensively fat. Missing teeth, racial sensitivity and gruesome modifications will also be welcome additions to the universe. If I get an avatard that looks like someone that looked like my neighbor before walking into toontown with his Wii in his hand, I'm giving my 360 to an orphanage.
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7-18-2008 @ 7:19PM
rlc:tk said...
Any word on how the HD-DVD drive will interface for the few of us that have it!?
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7-19-2008 @ 8:31AM
ryan said...
i don't think there will be any interface for it seeing as how they've dropped HD-DVD support a while ago.
7-19-2008 @ 1:58PM
rlc:tk said...
but they cant just drop support for the drive... MS isn't that stupid. They might not be updating it anymore but they won't make it not work. I'm guessing after looking at this more that another media icon (what do you call them now... blades still?) would just come up like under games showing that was in the tray.