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5Rage 360 install requires 22GB of space
During his Quakecon keynote last week, Id co-founder John Carmack revealed that only those with sizeable Xbox 360 hard drives will be able to install the game when it is released in October. "On the 360 we don't have a partial install option," he said. "It's all or nothing, which is kind of unfortunate. It means you have to install 21-22GB of stuff, which takes a long time, but if you've got it and you play it on the 360 that's the only way to go."
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5It's about time...MS might not admit it, but making the HDD optional in the second generation of XBox was a step backward.
Correction taking a standard HDD and making it proprietary and hinking the prices M$ style was a step backwards..
remember the WiFi dongle that cost £7 on pc but £59.99 for your 360....
That's why many people hack their own upgraded HDDs simply by copying over the "security sector", which is all that Microsoft does to justify its overly-exorbitant prices. Contrast that with the PS3, where you can put in any notebook SATA drive of your choosing, including SSDs.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I used to be a M$ fanboi. Fortunately, my gains in productivity and play time on other platforms makes it all worthwhile :) I still have the ol' 360 (#7 since launch - RRoD FAIL), but it rarely gets touched for anything other than the weekly XBLA offerings these days.
One of the great things about Microsoft's original console was that everyone came with a HDD as standard. Removing that feature for this generation has caused a lot of people a lot of trouble.
Don't get me started on the fact that is proprietary and overpriced...
Sooo...the 360 version comes on 3 discs then? And when you install it, you have to have the disc in there still which is fine, but do you still have to swap discs like you did in ME2, even though you're not actually running the game off the disc?