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at mom's house tonight and saw this on scoop's myspace.

A thought on the 360 fall update...

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person online who's seen this video. Yes, you will be able to install x360 games onto the hard drive of the system. Yes, the game disc has to be in the disc drive to avoid piracy. These facts are known.

However, and idea stumbled into my head that could possibly be original, as far as I can tell. Is it possible that an underlying possibility for this new feature is Micrisoft's attempt to compete with the larger-capacity blu-ray discs of the Playstation 3? Obviously, Playstation 3's blu-ray disc drive allows for a higher capacity disc than the xbox 360's standard DVD drive. This gives Sony's machine the ability to feature added content and the such. While the need for a higher capacity disc may not be evident now, perhaps future titles will utilize the blu-ray's increased size to a further degree. We have already seen that multi-platformers that come to Playstation 3 AFTER xbox 360 typically contain a wealth of added content. Take Bioshock's new "Survivor" mode and trophy system, for example. My thought is that xbox 360 games in the future may ship with 2 discs. One for the install, and the other for the actual game. Maybe the install disc could include things like tracks or cars for racing games, multiplayer maps for shooters, or songs for rhythm games. Then, the actual game disc could be used for game mechanics only, making for a smoother or even prettier game. If extras could be simply installed to the machine itself, space on the actual game disc could be saved.

Please, share your thoughts on this.