Colbert
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Maybe thats one of the features they implement with it. For example based on your habits. They have the telemetry to do this!
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Xbox One to offer "Shrinkable Games"?
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Maybe thats one of the features they implement with it. For example based on your habits. They have the telemetry to do this!
DontBeThatGuy
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It would be the sensible thing to do.
Seganomics
Member
Why dont you tell us what you think of the topic while you're in here, rather than cheering on the shit-posters
Razzmatazzer
Member
Be cool if they could separate the content that way... Gears, Halo, COD, Titanfall... Could just kill all single player content for me and I'd be fine.
Sorry, it was bad joke. I like my xbox. play it more than my PS4 actually.
One thing I am hoping this "shrinking" feature can bring is the ability to play a physical copy of the game without having to download it as well. Just got Forza Horizon 3 and I had to wait an hour or two before I can actually play it. Why?
One thing I am hoping this "shrinking" feature can bring is the ability to play a physical copy of the game without having to download it as well. Just got Forza Horizon 3 and I had to wait an hour or two before I can actually play it. Why?
SuperShadow271
Member
Honey I Shrunk the Xbox 
Edit: Dang. I didn't see that someone made that joke already. Sorry
Edit: Dang. I didn't see that someone made that joke already. Sorry
Christocolus
Member
It seems they've got a lot features planned for their next update. Nice.
lol. Isn't it obvious? He has nothing to add to this topic.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Nah, an hour of speech (which, remember is mono) will be 350mb or so at CD quality - less than half that for the best quality MP3, and less than a third again for stuff that most people think is totally acceptable.
I have no idea how much audio is in the average game, but I would expect it to be significantly less in 95% (figure plucked out of the air) of games.
You'll always have to wait for the instal before you can play. Blu- Ray isn't fast enough to run of the disc.
When i am taking a piss or when i am playing a game.. my eyes are bad
Yui's Empire
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This is interesting, I wonder if it's removing aspects of the game you may not be interested in or literally compressing the game, increasing loading times. Either way, a welcome addition, I have 2TB which I expected to be enough for a while, but Halo 5, GTA 5 and such take up like 100GBs each, so if you wanna have many triple-A games that get constantly expanded with free DLCs this can come in handy. I do delete some of the games I don't really use, at the same time I am wary or deleting 80GB games knowing how long I'll need to redownload them. Maybe I won't play it for months and even then it'll only be for 30 mins, but I don't want to spend like 2 days just being able to play it having to organize it prior. I'm definitely picking up more storage but this will come in handy.
That's true for compressed audio, but to reduce performance overhead a lot of games now leave audio uncompressed. For example, Titanfall had about 30gb uncompressed audio despite being an exclusively multiplayer game.
Oh, the cloud again. I mean, if they can actually cut down game sizes somehow, great, because too many XB1 games have comically huge install sizes right now... but I'm understandably sceptical considering how MS bluster regarding the cloud has amounted to nothing in all the years they've been feeding it to us.
Dramatically so.
lol
Dramatically so.
lol
The cloud and language options would be cool. It would also be cool to give people an option to only use standard XBO assets instead of the higher resolution textures we'll likely see on 1X versions if games.
Maybe all the DLC? Battlefield games are very similar in size.
Maybe all the DLC? Battlefield games are very similar in size.
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Bucket-o-roadkill
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Doom. Look what you've made them do
Oh god... people haven't the faintest idea how cloud processing works. You can't decompress something in your home device with "the cloud" because in order to do so, you'll need do upload your shit to the cloud (and downloading it again after the decompression). So it makes no sense, because to do so you would spent more bandwidth than just downloading your stuff again.
Cloud processing is worth for stuff that aren't huge in size and very latency sensitive, like analyzing radio form space for seti@home. And yes, this means that since the beginning the whole Xbox cloud stuff was bullshit.
TLZ
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ROFL.
Halo 5 laughs at Doom's install size.
sixteen-bit
Member
when your game is a grower and not a shower
coughlanio
Member
You're not taking into account dialogue scenes, environmental reverb etc.
I wonder if this will operate almost like streaming, installs only enough needed to launch and play for a bit, and will download and install more as you progress (and or delete what you have already played through, seems like that wouldn't work though if you decide to start the game over).
Would work pretty well as a staggering amount of the games I have I've barely even touched.
Would work pretty well as a staggering amount of the games I have I've barely even touched.
Bits N Pieces
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KelpPlankton
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Letting you uninstall singleplayer campaigns and keep multiplayer modes would cut a lot of games down pretty significantly, given all the audio and art assets you could remove. Hopefully it's something like that.
I think it's feasible for decompression, but the loading times would be atrocious.
This thread popped up in my Google search for "Xbox one shrinkable games" has there been any more word on what it actually does and not just speculation?
I've just noticed this while browsing my storage settings, getting ready for the One X and Gears 4 is the only game (in my games list ) that can be shrinked, it's telling me it can be reduced down by 13Gb
I've just noticed this while browsing my storage settings, getting ready for the One X and Gears 4 is the only game (in my games list ) that can be shrinked, it's telling me it can be reduced down by 13Gb
I've not been able to find anything else on it but it's surely just going to be this feature which is available in Windows 10.
CompactGUI - Save lots of disk space on Windows 10
CompactGUI is essentially a third part GUI for something that is a part of Windows 10, you can do the same things without the third party GUI.
lifeexpectancy
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More and more big... I can't even...
OT: if they would simply strip out all the useless audio insteadnof having every language in the download due to region-free, it would improve things greatly. Let us choose the language we prefer and skip the rest.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
HardcoreGamer4Ever
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I wish I had a shrinkable cock because I only fuck women with really tight pussies and sometimes I hurt them with my monster dong. I respect women, so I try to be gentle, you know.
Wonder if this is related to that compression technique in another thread a little while ago? Where only data being used is uncomoresses at the time causing some games to only take up like 1/4 of their normal install space.
Beaten. Looks like I shoulda read a bit more before posting.
Beaten. Looks like I shoulda read a bit more before posting.
Hoya Destroyer
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This tech could be handy. I download those free Games with Gold titles regularly, but rarely play them.
jobrro
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Can you choose whether you download the 4K assets on the Xbox One X?
I realize you'd most likely want them if you get an X but it'd be interesting if it affected frame rate at all, but potentially more likely things like load times or streaming assets in time for no popup or other artifacts.
Definitely helpful for different languages, multiplayer/singer player components and 4K video cinematic if you don't have a 4K TV.
Didn't think too much of MS early in the gen (and I liked Kinect for Dance Central and voice commands) but they are nailing it more recently with much more consumer friendly takes on BC and this is helpful too.
The Real Napsta
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Boom.
KormaChameleon
Member
Xbox.rar?
Its not compression.
Microsoft has created a new file structure that allows game designers to make their games modular. For example 50% of Call of Dity players (foolishly IMO) never even touch single player campaign, Well, why download and install it? Foreign language packs, whatever they want to make optional or segment they pretty much can.
I dont expect to see a lot of games using it until next year, it requires pre-planning thst games coming out now are probably well past the stage of implementing, though any game can go back later and support it.
https://youtu.be/PBw30bs4eC0
GodlyTwins
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Wow, this is the first time I've heard of this, should be pretty useful! I wonder if devs can patch in support for recent releases?
Rayderism
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I read that it was called "intelligent delivery" that separates games into chunks so you could download only the SP portion of the game, or only the MP if you're into that, or only the languages you plan to use, option to download 4K assets or not. Stuff like that.
Here's one such article:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/d...down-install-sizes-and-reduces-download-times
Sounds to me like the best idea in modern console gaming yet. I don't have an XBOX, but it's very annoying to me to have to download huge "patches" to PS4 games that add content that's locked behind a DLC paywall that I never intend to buy. Doom is a prime example, as I'll never play any of the MP content. So it's just wasted space on my HDD.
Here's one such article:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/d...down-install-sizes-and-reduces-download-times
Sounds to me like the best idea in modern console gaming yet. I don't have an XBOX, but it's very annoying to me to have to download huge "patches" to PS4 games that add content that's locked behind a DLC paywall that I never intend to buy. Doom is a prime example, as I'll never play any of the MP content. So it's just wasted space on my HDD.