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Discuss: Installing your games takes 30% off loading times
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This sounds kind of what Microsoft was making fun of Sony for doing. To think you would have to install GTA4 on the PS3.

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But it does have it's plus sides because, at the moment, it sounds like an option rather than the console deciding it for you, and it means you can install a game you play alot, eg GTA4 or COD4. It does sound rather hipocritical, but them's the breaks.

I see it as a good thing, if it works, but would this then involve heavy DRM, for example say, once it is installed in your Xbox, it can't be installed in any one elses....

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this will help mass effect a whole lot

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Why are they still selling the arcade version of the 360 then? Most likely this is going to be a trend and does make perfect sense. It sounds like you will need to have the DVD still in the drive to play the game.

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your probably just installing the bits and peices that are used over and over again

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I don't wanna fill up my hard drive with games I can just pop in the disc tray. I'd rather save space for my movies, music, DLC, etc.

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SOOOOOO many games will benefir from this.

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 i think this is a good thing, as long as you can decide what games you want to install on hard drive and what games you want to read from disc.

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Truthfully I don't think I myself will benefit from this feature for one reason, do I really want to take up the extra space?

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this is most likely a xbox version of daemonware, it downloads the entire disk as an iso and creates a "fake" optical drive with reads the iso file