xbox360 Spring Update
 

Take with a pinch of salt as it's unconfirmed. ;)

Microsoft: Rumored Xbox 360 Spring Update Touts "Motion Sensor" Features, Game Installs

We'll see


Problem with add on features, that require a purcahse on behalf of the consumer, are rarely supported en masse by publishers/developers. It's just not worth the risk because you limit your available market to people that have bought the device.

If they bundle it amlost free with a game though it could be a winner.

As Sixaxis has shown though, unless you go from the ground up as per wii and make it the fundamental method of contorl, it alsways comes across as an afterthought.

Good news about the install though - However, again, it depends how many publishers decide to support it, given that not everyone can install.

Past updates have been quite good and this one has a genuine look about it - if not someone has far too much time on their hands...

BTW I thought we'd already had the Spring update - I guess if it appears this will be towards the later part of the year?

Which would almost certianly be what they would do, I would expect. A bit like the big button controllers with Scene It. From whats been rumoured its more like the Wii controller, not just motion sensing in a current controller format.

I think it would be a smart move and open up the casual gaming market more for them.

Isn't 'Lips' supposed to be announced today too, anyone heard anything more?

It was around May 7th last year.

Well yes - Just look at the huge amount of games that make use of that controller ;)


Quite possibly, but again why would a developer create a game for it, with a limited audience, when he can develop for Wii at half the cost, with a massive audience already there.

True :lol1: There is another Scene It due soon though ;) :D

Agree, but I'd still say it pays to cover all corners of the market. If they can pull off great next-gen graphics and bring the same functionality to the table as Nintendo, then they could be on to something.

It would most likely tie in with XBL games, which I doubt cost twice that of a Wii game to produce.

Isn't it supposed to be some floaty motion mouse type controller

8Bit Joystick.com: Xbox 360 "Newton" Motion Sensing Controller Confirmed

Apprently yes, this is what the Wiimote was described as too.

Yeah thats the ticket - IF someone can produce quality XBL games for use with the controller it would be ace

some intersting items in that list - liking the option that 0G games are vaped from gamercards - about damn time.

another good one is seeing game updates as items - hopefully they'll add an option to clear the cache seeing as thats where updates are currently stored, no point in having loads of updates occupying system memory when you can only play 1 game at a time.

You can already clear the cache by doing the following

yeah I know, buts more of a cheat code and actual system maintenance setting.

When I've done it in the past I've certainly noticed a speed bump on the dashboard, I'd do it more often if I could remember the damn procedure in my head.

would be good if the 360 automatically dumped an update from the cache if the game hadn't been played for say 1 month. Think I'll do a cache clear tonight - probably got updates for a dozen games I no longer own in there...

God knows why they hid it like that, would be much easier if it was one of the options in the system blade.
I only found out about it when mine was playing up and I searched the MS site for help.

Oblivion is reknowned for problems, I think it uses a good bit of the cache and doesn't clean up after itself when you've stopped playing it. It was after Oblivion that I did my first clear and it was certainly beneficial.

A bit of pain that everygame afterwards needs the update re-downloaded but it's only a minor inconveneince and is certainly outweighed by speed bump.

I'd be interested to see what's occupying space within my profile, new ones are only 1mb but mine's at 15mb.

Or you could hold down the A button before the main Oblivion menu has loaded ;)

50k+ points comes at a price :p

yeah, thats how I was doing it with Oblivion.

so does that work out at 1mb per 3500G or something? ;)

Looks like that was a fanboy list of wants ;)

official word is :

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: MS to Delist XBLA Titles : Next Generation - Interactive Entertainment Today, Video Game and Industry News - Home of Edge Online

Shame, good news about the DRM fix though.