New Xbox Experience Loads Games 10-15 Seconds Faster via Hard Drive, Worth the Space?
by Chad Lakkis on October 31, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Stephen Totilo over at the MTV Multiplayer blog decided to spend a portion of his Halloween holiday by treating himself to the “New Xbox Experience”.
Microsoft claims that the NXE will have your Xbox 360 games loading faster than ever before, so Stephen popped in a few titles, hit record, and published the split screen results.
Per his tests, load time was cut by approximately 10 to 15 seconds across the titles he tested (Gears of War, Fable II, and GTA IV). Installs took around 11 minutes and ate up about 7 gigs of hard drive space each.
If you do the math (it’s a slow news day so I did), you’ll have to boot a game 45-70 times just to make up the lost time spent installing it in the first place. Assuming you play a game twice a day, you won’t see a return on your time investment for three to five weeks.
So, is the upfront install time and hard drive space worth it in the end? I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts below.
Source: MTV Multiplayer
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9 Comments » |
on November 1, 2008 12:25 am
Well, the boot-up time PLUS all the time saved while loading inside the game itself would be worth it, imo, assuming you have a 120gb HDD.
on November 1, 2008 12:28 am
You know David, if this helps to eliminate all the disc unreadable errors I get on my 360, that alone would make me do it. I have not used my 360 for a sports game in some time now because I’ve been burnt by the disk error while doing drafts and or recruiting so many times I just gave up.
on November 1, 2008 1:32 am
I hear ya man, my first elite stopped reading game discs completely.
on November 1, 2008 2:22 am
If the installs are 6 gigs thats got to be most of the game. You shouldnt get the disk unreadable error if it is hardly using the disk.
on November 1, 2008 6:10 am
omg, i have a 20gb HD and only 9gb free…this must be a helloween-joke.
on November 1, 2008 7:48 am
Nope. Microsoft wants you to ask for a bigger HD for Xmas.
on November 1, 2008 9:15 am
ah, i’ve been surviving by deleting stuff to free up a little space, i guess i’m really gonna have to buy a new hard drive or make some serious sacrifices.
on November 1, 2008 4:35 pm
A bigger HDD would really be the best option. In fact, I have a 120gb HDD and wish it was about 500gb right about now. I would like to install ALL my games, not just the biggest ones or the ones I’m playing most recently.
on November 2, 2008 11:53 am
i´m glad having a PS3 with 440gb free (500gb HDD)
so i think i´ll buy the most multi-titles for my PS3 and buy only 360-exclusives for my 360.
i think this will be the best solution.