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[The Abominable Snowman]

I have confirmation from a lot of sources that the X360 will have DVD burning and TIVO capabilities. A lot of people were ballyhooing over 64DD's capabilities to record to cart. What uses could a DVD burner have in gaming? I think it's useless except for a set-top box.

 

[DopeyFish]

DVD burning = no.

Someone misinterpreted something me thinks.

 

[DMczaf]

Your source wouldnt just happen to be a thread right below your's, would it?

 

[mj1108]

ARRRRRRRRRR MATEY!

[/just a guess]

 

[The Abominable Snowman]

Oh, that was another 'source' of mine. LOL

My other one was another clanmember who was at the event.

Not in the ditzy PMS clan.

 

[android]

Are these guy your sources.
http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=46175

 

[Suikoguy]

Your source wouldnt just happen to be a thread right below your's, would it?

:lol

But seriously, I think its going to be Xbox 360 Media Edition, or something to that effect for $200 extra or something similar.

 

[midnightguy]

YAY! *ANOTHER* Xbox 360 thread

 

[The Abominable Snowman]

YAY! *ANOTHER* Xbox 360 thread

OMG! A Videogame forum discussing an upcoming, highly anticipated console? IMPOSSIBLE!

Anyway, with this, it's possible to save replays of a game and burn them to DVD, am I right? I've thought of no other game-related uses. Are there none?

 

[element]

no DVD burner.
only way to do a even psudeo tivo would be via Media Center connection. Where you play files from the Media Center on your Xenon, much like Xbox Extender.

 

[Joe]

well that freakin blows.

 

[kIdMuScLe]

WOW!! so that means we could back-up our games and dvd? damn just made my pants explode!!!

 

[AtomicShroom]

OMG! A Videogame forum discussing an upcoming, highly anticipated console? IMPOSSIBLE!

Anyway, with this, it's possible to save replays of a game and burn them to DVD, am I right? I've thought of no other game-related uses. Are there none?

It's really nothing that you couldn't do with a harddrive. But as for games idea, I like what Miyamoto said back in the 64DD days, when he said it would enable them to make worlds where every change you made would be permanently saved.

You could extend that to stuff like racing games. Places where you had crashes could forever have paint marks/scraps on the walls. Skid marks on the tracks would stay permanently. Or a tree that you cut in a game stays cut forever. Stuff like that.

 

[Virgin Wii]

It's really nothing that you couldn't do with a harddrive. But as for games idea, I like what Miyamoto said back in the 64DD days, when he said it would enable them to make worlds where every change you made would be permanently saved.

You could extend that to stuff like racing games. Places where you had crashes could forever have paint marks/scraps on the walls. Skid marks on the tracks would stay permanently. Or a tree that you cut in a game stays cut forever. Stuff like that.

I don't think that would really work here. 360 has no hard drive, so it has to access the disc just as much as any other current, non-HD console. It can't be reading data and writing at the same time. And that's ignoring the fact that DVD-RWs can only be rewritten so many times; the games wouldn't last you long.

 

[B E N K E]

Someone made a mistake, there is no burner.