Xbox 360 pre-loaded content revealed by BBFC submission

By Games Industry.biz Published 26 July, 2005

Audio and video bundled.

The Xbox 360 will ship in the UK with over 100 minutes of audio and video already on the system's hard drive, it has emerged, after Microsoft submitted the planned content to the British Board of Film Certification to be rated.

The content, which has been passed without cuts by the BBFC, consists of 22 separate files - the majority of which are between three and five minutes long, and appear to be music videos or movie clips, with titles such as "PUNK ROCK SUPERSTAR.WMA" and "1ST_TITANICTESTSEQUENCE_SINKING_8MBPS.WMV".

However, one stand-out piece of content is a 22 minutes 59 second long item described as "DVD OF GAME", which seems likely to be a trailer reel for upcoming Xbox 360 games.

The fact that the Xbox 360 ships with video and audio content pre-loaded is further proof of Microsoft's commitment to pushing the console as a multimedia platform for the living room rather than simply as a games device.

It's expected that users will be able to download multimedia content - as well as things like game demos and add-ons - through retail systems on the Xbox Live service, and Microsoft is thought to see Xbox 360 as central to its ambitions in the digital video and audio space - where competitor Apple has a strong first-mover advantage thanks to the success of iPod and the iTunes Music Store.

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Comments (53) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • deaner #1 7 years ago

    Non-playable demo's!

    It's 1994!

  • #2 7 years ago

    yep, thats when this news surfaced, catch up eurogamer.

  • Derblington #3 7 years ago

    I'm starting to get excited now!

    /is easily pleased

  • tpfkanep #4 7 years ago

    1ST_TITANICTESTSEQUENCE_SINKING_8MBPS.WMV
    Well, well, well... :)

  • groovychainsaw #5 7 years ago

    This would be great if they released game demos over xbox live... for free? (Never gonna happen, but publishers could get som many more sales this way, especially for games the general public would normally avoid... a BG&E demo could have sold more copies :-(

  • tpfkanep #6 7 years ago

    BG&E = average game. Get over it, already. That is so previous Jen.

  • UncleLou #7 7 years ago

    BG&E = average game. Get over it, already.

    Here's a shocking example of what Nintendo fanboyism can do to a once promising young member of our society. :p

  • sickpuppysoftware #8 7 years ago

    "1ST_TITANICTESTSEQUENCE_SINKING_8MBPS.WMV"

    What? It sinks?

    Where's the spoiler tags? ;o)

  • Blerk #9 7 years ago

    Well, that sounds like a big bundle of stuff you can delete to get a bit of extra HDD space. :-)

  • Carrybagma #10 7 years ago

    Oh that's clever - filling the hard-drive up with pre-loaded crap to encourage people to upgrade to a bigger disk

    :o)

  • Scientist #11 7 years ago

    "This would be great if they released game demos over xbox live... for free? (Never gonna happen, but publishers could get som many more sales this way,"

    Why wouldn't they? You can already get free demos on magazines, so why wouldn't publishers use the Live service to distribute the same OXM demos? It seems like a great way of cutting out the middlemen.

  • effinwooly #12 7 years ago

    There WILL be free demo over Xbox Live !

  • groovychainsaw #13 7 years ago

    Well, that would be nice if they did, but i remember them saying this about the current xbox....wouldn't be difficult to do, yet they havent ever got round to it.

  • abigsmurf #14 7 years ago

    omg the Titanic sinks!?!?!?!

    Spoilers!

    tech demos and 'buy this album on xbox live' type stuff I'm betting

  • Milbe #15 7 years ago

    "pushing the console as a multimedia platform for the living room rather than simply as a games device"

    The word "Multimedia" was raped for so long now, for so many times, and now it continues (and they will probably never stop to use it for blinding people)...

  • Mr_Brown #16 7 years ago

    Please, if they released Playable demo's for download, who would buy their Official Magazine?

    Think of the Lazy Journalists who'd be made redundent before making suggestions like that :p

  • effinwooly #17 7 years ago

    "Please, if they released Playable demo's for download, who would buy their Official Magazine?"

    Errrrr for the actual Magazine !! I play the demos on the official mag for about 20 mins and then read the mag which takes ages !

  • Blerk #18 7 years ago

    You read the magazine? Are you some kind of masochist?

    Everyone else buys the official mags for the demos and uses the actual mag to line the dog's basket.

  • #19 7 years ago

    What's worse a HDD full of deletables, or no Hard Drive at all! :)

    That must suck, especially when you've just payed at least £399 for a PSX2 and your mate got the X360 with a Hard Drive included for £249.

    "Gamers officially love the price of the X360!"

    Ta ra!

  • The-Bodybuilder #20 7 years ago

    >""Gamers officially love the price of the X360!""

    Wow, that's just great.
    Now could you tell me how much the x360 costs again?

  • Darkedge #21 7 years ago

    sound good - lets have some freebies to at least watch and alot more than you can shovel onto a DVD.

  • #22 7 years ago

    For the hard or hearing kids at the back..

    It'll be a lot bloody cheaper than the Ken Kutaragi - self confessed, super expensive supercomputer, the SONY PSX2!

    P.S The SONY PSX was a flop because of its price aswell!
    Edited by 1 at 26/07/05 @ 13:51

  • ruttyboy #23 7 years ago

    Balor, you really are a pathetic individual. I really wish you'd stop 'redressing the imbalance', unless of course it's the chemical imbalance in your brain that leads you to come here and post your tedious fanboy nonsense.

  • #24 7 years ago

    The time it took you to write that post, you could have spent doing something more constructive, like a bit of graft. I suggest a paper round, that way there is a better chance, even if it's a small one, that you might actually be able to afford the PSX2 when it's launch.

    Oh yeah! And don't forget to you need to save up an extra £100 for the Hard Drive, memory cards and whatever else SONY decide to remove!

    "Xbox 360 gamers officially love not having to do paper-rounds!"
    Edited by 1 at 26/07/05 @ 14:03

  • ruttyboy #25 7 years ago

    I just don't get it. What motivates you to come up with this tired old crap? Are Microsoft paying you for this? Do you benefit from their success or failure given that MS have seemingly infinite pockets, so commercial success or not you will be supported as a user?

    I'm thinking about getting a 360 at launch, but knowing that people like your good self are the apparent 'core market' is really putting me off.

  • #26 7 years ago

    Balor wrote: That must suck, especially when you've just payed at least £399 for a PSX2 and your mate got the X360 with a Hard Drive included for £249.

    Yeah, and then you have to buy a hi def cable to plug it into your HD TV. Buy a wireless box to put it into your wireless network, AND possibly buy a remote control to watch films...

    And where the fuck did you get £249 for the xbox from? Microsoft paying you to talk this shit?

    And what are you talking about the PSX2? What is that? You making shit up again?

    Wipe your mouth Balor, you're chatting shit.

  • #27 7 years ago

    Am I really? Hi-def cables??? How can you prove I'm wrong?

    You can't, as much as you can say the PSX2 isn't going to be £399 the next guy can say it will be.

    For all you know the PSX2 could smack you in the mouth and be £399 don't you read the news? It's going to be very expensive! And I didn't even think £399 was very expensive as far as consoles go, meaning it could be even more than that and you still won't have a Hard Drive.

  • ruttyboy #28 7 years ago

    Does being a fanboy mean you have to abandon verbal logic and reasoning?

  • Derblington #29 7 years ago

    Calling it a PSX2 is talking shit thought. I know it seems cool and funny, like spelling Microsoft with a $, but it's really not. It's called a PS3.

  • Teeth #30 7 years ago

    I can't believe Balor's still coming to this place the way he gets treated.

    To be honest I hope everyone keeps it going so he can become disillusioned and fuck off for good.

  • matrim83 #31 7 years ago

    Balor it's your own fault. You can't praise xbox or halo here without getting flamed.
    Know your audience.

  • Teeth #32 7 years ago

    Matrim it's not that he's praising either of those things, it's the way he's doing it: in the manner of a complete fucktard. TBH if you're supporting him you can go on my ignore list as well.

  • Derblington #33 7 years ago

    "I can't believe Balor's still coming to this place the way he gets treated.
    To be honest I hope everyone keeps it going so he can become disillusioned and fuck off for good."

    I think he should stay, providing he wants to, but stop with the blatant MS/Xbox c***sucking. Then everyone would stop jumping down his throat as soon as he arrives. He is a smart, civilised guy, and fair play to you Balor, you keep coming back for more :)

    "Balor it's your own fault. You can't praise xbox or halo here without getting flamed."
    Know your audience."

    This is true. "Fanboys" aren't tollerated here, for whatever reasons. If you like one console over the rest just keep it to yourself and enjoy playing it, don't wind everyone up pointing it out.

  • matrim83 #34 7 years ago

    What's worse a HDD full of deletables, or no Hard Drive at all! :)

    That must suck, especially when you've just payed at least £399 for a PSX2 and your mate got the X360 with a Hard Drive included for £249.

    "Gamers officially love the price of the X360!"

    Ta ra!

    Excuse me but what in that statement was so offensive??
    We know a hard drive is better than none (already announced by sony).
    We also know Xbox will be cheaper when PS 3 is released (agreed qouting prices is streching it)
    Sorry but I know who sounds like a fanboy here.
    Edited by 1 at 26/07/05 @ 15:23

  • Derblington #35 7 years ago

    No-one said it was offensive, did they?It's just constant "MS/Xbox is better than Sony/Playstation" rubbish. Have you read more than just that one post?

  • matrim83 #36 7 years ago

    No-one said it was offensive, did they?It's just constant "MS/Xbox is better than Sony/Playstation" rubbish. Have you read more than just that one post?

    You mean the rest of the flame war :)
    Meh I have seen better.
    Edited by 1 at 26/07/05 @ 15:35

  • matrim83 #37 7 years ago

    Damn! I keep making spelling errors and then correcting them.
    Obsessive compulsive nightmare.

  • ruttyboy #38 7 years ago

    As others have said, it's not that it's Microsoft he prefers, if you went back in time and he replaced 360 in all his posts with PS3 or Revolution for that matter, then it would still be a completely tiresome and pointless exercise.

    Seeing one or two posts it may not seem that bad, but to make it your goal to come back to the same place every day with a massively biased agenda (whichever way) with the seemingly only desire to annoy people it gets a bit much. I for one wish he'd stop and resort to treating people like adults rather than children who need to be taught what's best for them.
    Edited by 1 at 26/07/05 @ 15:45

  • UncleLou #39 7 years ago

    Hm, don't know, Balor is too gung-ho to annoy me. And he's too obviously winding people up rather than stating a real opinion.

    I am much easier annoyed by more subtle quips. :)

  • theweaze #40 7 years ago

    whoa whoa what is going on here. getting back on topic it seems like a smart move by microsoft lets just see how slick downloading content is etc, could be interesting to see a proper rival to apple in music (and maybe video).

  • Xerx3s #41 7 years ago

    "1ST_TITANICTESTSEQUENCE_SINKING_8MBPS.WMV" - WTF? The Titanic sunk? Well, there goes this years holiday trip...

    " Oh that's clever - filling the hard-drive up with pre-loaded crap to encourage people to upgrade to a bigger disk " - Hmm, more like an encouragement for ppl to buy the HD xb2 instead of one without. Depending on how you feel about this stuff of course. (/Has had an xbx sinse the beginning and has lots of savegames & cd's on the HD and it still hasnt reached max capacity)

  • #42 7 years ago

    What's worse a HDD full of deletables, or no Hard Drive at all! :)

    That must suck, especially when you've just payed at least £399 for a PSX2 and your mate got the X360 with a Hard Drive included for £249.

    Excuse me but what in that statement was so offensive??

    Paid at least £399 - Stated like it's a *fact*. It's not
    X360 with a Hard Drive included for £249 - Stated like it's a fact. It's not.
    Describing the PS3 as a PSX2 is as retarded as calling the X360 an XBox 1.5.

    Gamers offically love the price of the xbox 360?
    Official how? What price?

    That statement is utter crap. There is *no* official price... I have seen no such survey (and any survey is impossible, as there is no actual price.

    Balor is a troll who makes data up on the fly.

  • JonFE #43 7 years ago

    Any mention on Jeff Minter's Neon in that list?

  • darkmistx #44 7 years ago

    Balor, you clearly have way too much free time on your hands.
    Edited by 1 at 26/07/05 @ 19:08

  • silentbob #45 7 years ago

    Looks like it's HiDef WMV9 judging by the bitrate! :)

  • #46 7 years ago

    Just for Djini, here's the proof! Link!!!

    Have fun! :D
    Edited by 1 at 26/07/05 @ 21:46

  • admir #47 7 years ago

    Balor is only pissed becouse all the good games came on PS2 and shit ones on Xbox name 20 games balor that are good only on xbox if u can
    dude how old are u littel xbox fan boy and why dont u like ps2 or sony
    you are pathetic and how much will 360 cost anyway in US

  • phAge #48 7 years ago

    Ngh!

  • squaylor #49 7 years ago

    Lou - annoyed by subtle quips and a fan of unsubtle quiffs?

  • Carrybagma #50 7 years ago

    Heh. I love proof.
    Here's some typical proof:

    www.conclusiveproof.n et

  • #51 7 years ago

    Great 'Proof' Balor... A dumb picture of where you live.

    Back under the bridge you go... Just how many times do you need to be exposed as a troll-tard MS fanboy who just makes things up?

  • sitruc #52 7 years ago

    It can be deleted, right?

  • llamaman #53 7 years ago

    xcuse me but is 360 really £150 less than the PS3

  • llamaman #54 7 years ago

    and doesnt the PS3 have a HDD
    Edited by 1 at 01/08/05 @ 16:40