NXE will allow for remote downloads

By Tom Bramwell Published 13 October, 2008

And requires 128MB of storage space.

Microsoft has revealed that Xbox 360 owners will be able to buy, queue up and set off Marketplace downloads remotely with New Xbox Experience.

As seen in screenshots of the next version of Xbox.com, this will include premium downloads, and Microsoft has said it will go live with the functionality when NXE launches on 19th November.

By way of a statement from Xbox Live's internet cheerleader, Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb, we're also informed that NXE will require 128MB of free space.

Since not every 360 ships with a hard disk, Hryb notes that "a small percentage of Xbox 360 owners do not have enough memory to accommodate the update", which is of course a mandatory patch.

Good news if you're one of them, though, because "Microsoft will be offering storage solutions to the Xbox Live community", with "more details in the coming weeks".

For more on NXE, check out our interview with Microsoft's John Schappert at the Tokyo Game Show, or check out our New Xbox Experience page.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • bad09 #1 3 years ago

    Wait the NXE is too big for the arcade machines????

    Hahahahahahahahahaha!!! :)

    Sorry but that is so bad it's funny! The exact market the NXE is aimed at can't get the shiny new avatars.

    As for remote download, while it's nice on PS I don't really use it. People seriously can't wait until they get home?

  • Gnort #2 3 years ago

    The Arcade unit comes with a 256MB memory card, so it will be able to upgrade to the NXE, but it will lose half of its storage space. Old Core owners are stuffed, though.

  • bad09 #3 3 years ago

    Gnort

    Ah didn't know it came with a card, still that's a bugger!

  • lennon #4 3 years ago

    Good news if you're one of them, though, because "Microsoft will be offering storage solutions to the Xbox Live community", with "more details in the coming weeks".

    Hmmm Interesting

  • JonFE #5 3 years ago

    I cannot see how this is going to work on a memory card, even a 256MB one... I mean, if you've got two memory cards, wouldn't you have to have it on both or something?

    In any case, if this is a mandatory patch as you say, it will be distributed via XBox Live in every country, regardless of whether XBL is officially supported there, right?



    /it shouldn't be that hard for MS to offer XBL in Greece at last, should it?

  • CaptCastle #6 3 years ago

    I would suspect the majority of Xboxes without HDDs are not online anyway. Although I have been known to be rubbish at this suspicion malarky.

  • Darren #7 3 years ago

    There's a 512 MB memory unit as I use one for backing up my 360's HDD saves onto ('cos I'm sensible like that!). It only costs £30 but then if you're going to buy memory cards you may as well bite the bullet and buy a 20 GB HDD in all honesty, because even if it is typically overpriced for an add-on, it's still far better value in terms of megabytes per pound.

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #8 3 years ago

    I would have thought they'd send people a free memory card, although how they'll know if you've got a hard drive or not, I don't know...

    Other than that, no idea how people with no HD/mem card can use this mandatory update!!!

  • Darren #9 3 years ago

    I hope Microsoft increase number of downloads you can queue from the current six as I often like to queue up a load of downloads, turn off my 360 and then leave them downloading overnight. It's quite irritating that you can only queue six items IMO as more often than not there's seven or more things I want to download. I don't understand why they've limited it to six as items are downloaded one after the other anyway.

  • Jazza2 #10 3 years ago

    Remote downloads via xbox.com was announced at E3

  • Ryze #11 3 years ago

    They already told us this upon announcement months ago.

    Cheers anyway EG.

  • Ryze #12 3 years ago

    They really need to begin including 1Gb flash in 360s for firmware updates and game caching.

    Oh well... too late.

  • steviepunk #13 3 years ago

    "Microsoft will be offering storage solutions to the Xbox Live community", with "more details in the coming weeks"

    They could be integrating the Xbox into Live Mesh (http://mesh.live.com ), though not sure how this be practical work for playing anything other than some of the smaller XBLA games - though may be useful for archiving old game data and DLC when you're not needing it.
    The NXE update would still have to be installed locally though, so memory cards would still be essential for 'arcade' users
    Edited by 1 at 13/10/08 @ 14:27