New Xbox feature will let you download games before buying them
Players will be able to fully install games before purchasing them on Xbox.
Microsoft is constantly updating and tweaking the Xbox layout and user experience, often to much criticism. However, a new feature will likely be a hit with the masses. Xbox is implementing the ability for players to install games before they buy them. This will allow users to fully install games before spending a single dollar.
Having to fully install games before playing them are one of the biggest inconveniences of modern consoles. Fans often find themselves counting down the minutes to when a download is set to finish, so that they can jump into the action. This was combated with the ability to download games after digitally pre-orders, but still didn’t help in several other circumstances.
Xbox has a new feature that allows you to download and install any game, even if you don't own it. For example if you have ordered a 💿 version of the game you will be able to preload the game before your 💿 arrives. Meaning you can play the game the moment you insert the 💿.
— Jerko Cilas 🐧 (@DarthChillash) September 23, 2020
This feature was spotted by Jerko Cilas, a writer for Lords of Gaming. Through the Xbox Store or mobile app, players can directly begin downloading a game from its store page. This will be incredibly convenient for fans of physical media. You can now download a game ahead of launch day, and begin playing as soon as you get the disc and pop it into your console. With game download sizes only getting bigger, the pre-download feature only makes sense. Here’s hoping other major players in the console market will adopt a similar model in the future.
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replyDonovan Erskine posted a new article, New Xbox feature will let you download games before buying them
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Don’t games download from disks in about 5 seconds? That seems silly to advertise it that way, maybe mention if day one patches are included, that is where the time savings could come in
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Just put Dark Souls 3 on my PS4, the update took like 10 minutes but putting the full game from disk to the system was almost instant. I do have an SSD in my PS4 so maybe that helps, but these new hard drives are even faster so once again, I dont see this as a time saver unless the patches also download.
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Like you said earlier though, this generation does not do that. I think the longest I have seen a game download from disk to hard drive was about 10 minutes. Dark Souls games are like 20 gigs or less I think so they load up pretty fast.
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Pretty sure this generation DOES do that if you want it to (also possibly not optionally depending on the game?)
You're talking about PS4 which isn't Xbox. And I haven't used physical media for games on Xbox since Xbox 360 so it sounds like neither of us have first hand experience here.-
Correct I have never done this on the Xbone, only disks I have for that are CoDs from the 360 era.
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A better example are game demos where you actually download the entire game or the portion of the game you need to play it long enough for all the rest of the assets to download in the background. When you purchase it, the rest of the game will unlock.
Recently, Plague Tale: Innocence’s demo behaved that way for me on PSN -
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Exactly that is what takes the time to get the game up and running is downloading all the patches. Especially in a world where day one 20-40 gig patches exist.
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