New Xbox 360 Disc Format (xgd3) to add additional 1GB of storage
Date: Saturday, April 02 @ 00:49:02 UTC
Topic: Xbox 360
A new disc format (xgd3) which adds an extra 1GB of additional storage space to the current game format by drastically reducing or removing the dedicated anti-piracy security sectors is now being beta tested.
The maximum space allocated to game data on the current disc format is just 6.8GB out of a maximum of 7.95GB on a standard dual layer DVD, with over 1GB dedicated to a DVD-Video partition that also contained anti-piracy security sectors. It seems that this video partition has either been drastically reduced or omitted completely in the new format Microsoft is looking to roll-out.
Beta testers of the new dashboard get a free copy of Halo: Reach once they are accepted into the new preview programme. We can assume that this isn't just a generous gift on Microsoft's part - more likely it is a disc pressed using the new format, and Microsoft is looking for data on performance on as many different systems as it can.
News-Source: eurogamer.net
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