Darkwatch, Midtown Madness & Cold Fear from OG XBox days

Would be worthwhile if the reserved space for games could be deleted en mass, or automated for games that haven't been played in say > 1 month/week
Ridiculous amount of space is taken up by old games' reserved space, either on the internal drives or external ones

My take, for what is worth, is that they go down the Surface route and manufacture a high end & expensive console (£1000+)

MS will not be competing with Sony or Nintendo in hardware sales but will be by then mostly a software company as "everything is an XBox"; however I would expect them to want to have a console to show off their games as best as possible

From a games preservation point of view I really hope it is not some Cloud based hybrid machine
I would be OK with it being some sort of PC in console form, as long as it is still recognisably a console

@themightyant might just have been me, but the 8Tb I was swapping over seemed to be showing the hard drive icon at the top right of the screen every time I powered it up for a few days. It was easier to keep my PS4 as a VR console & PS4 Pro as my main one
Even then there were times I have had 800gigs free & it would say I didn't have enough space for some relatively small updates. It is easier to delete the game & then do a fresh install.
Frustrating doesn't cover it !! You can't even uninstall DLC from a title - somehow one of the Lego games had DLC showing as installed from another Lego game I didn't own & no easy way to uninstall it - resorted to going with a fresh install
The way the PS external hard drive system works is a mystery to me - even installing to the external drive, I have had messages saying I need to clear space on the internal drive
I have a suspicion that if there is less than, say, 10%of the external drive free it won't let you install & if it is an 8Tb drive thats just under 800gigs- again just a hunch
But as this is an Xbox site I shouldn't be venting here !!

XBox Series games that are Gen9aware can run off external drives, but can have much longer load times - Sea of Thieves is about a 10 minute load.....
However why games like Pinkman must be on the internal drive baffles me

Current max capacity is 3 x 16Tb drives attached + 2TB expansion card
I did try an 18Tb drive a year or so ago, but it would not format as it was bigger than the16Tb individual max, so the comments about having to reformat if using a drive larger than 16Tb seems a bit strange to me

The PS4&5 external storage is only 1 x 8Tb Drive and a nightmare to swap over as the index gets completely messed up when using a drive that has a different set of games on it & re-indexing takes days as it seems to require the console to be powered up on the dashboard. I maxed out my 8Tb back when it was only PS4 games I had to worry about

The PS5 doesn't support 3D either on Blu ray or PS4 games that had it enabled; apparently the 3D chip was not included in the console. I found this out after trying some of the Rebellion titles that played in 3D on the PS4, but did not on the PS5 - and I would suspect the PS5 Pro is the same

I thought there had been some separate rumours in the last week or so about a new Ecco game - would think that fits the bill with the XBox rumours
To me the wording of the mystery game suggested it was an older game & had been quiet on the release front in recent years - some of the suggestion in the article are too recent & have had recent releases

Would be interested if a manufacturer could make a hub to allow more than 1 expansion card to be used at once as i have a 2TB & 1TB card and the way cables are clustered around the expansion slot makes it tricky to swap over
Bought one of the cosmic black Series Xs just to have the 2TB internal available rather than the normal 1TB

I don't understand why there aren't more Gen9aware games, especially XB1 games - it gives the best of both worlds & utilises the Series X/S enhancements but does not need to be installed on the internal velocity drive
Why a basic game like Pinkman needs to be installed on the internal drive baffles me; the recent Assassins Creed Syndicate was a Gen9aware update & runs fine off an external drive

There's a dashboard ad for World of Warships - watched the video & won £7 reward - still to be deposited into my account, but did say it would take a few days

Played it & competed it on PS1, but went back to it on the XBox & I cannot manage the drift mechanic now - I always seem to end up pointing the wrong way when drifting - my muscle memory must be too attuned to the more recent style of drifting in Mario Kart & Speedstorm

I have noticed games with the same name disappearing and only 1 version showing in my library eg Prey (360 & XB1) and Doom 3 (360 disc & XB1); they usually reappear after powering down the console
The only one I am aware I have lost is FIFA 15 (XB1) after it was delisted it disappeared from my library & even though it was installed on my console it would not start as I no longer had the rights to it - according to MS support, everybodys rights had been revoked (!!)
Usually if you go to the installed game tab & look at the metadata info, it will usually show an acquisition date for it, if you bought it. If its a disc install I don't think there is a date shown.
In my case with FIFA15 the acquisition date was missing.
I suspect that in the early days of XB1 there was a learning curve in how the digital rights to games were established and recorded on your account.
I suspect that if FIFA15 had an acquisition date or support could access & amend that data, then my rights would be re-instated

Any indication if this a Gen 9 update or a Gen 9 aware update (like Origins & Odyssey)?

Anyone else in the UK still waiting for their 2Tb Galaxy Black Series X to ship?
Mine is still showing as pre ordered
Thought it was supposed to come out a week ago

From a personal point of view I am keen to see if my digital rights for FIFA 15 will work
I bought the game digitally & have the MS receipt email but after working for a few years, it no longer starts on any of my XBoxes as it says I don't have the rights to it & according to MS support when questioned, everybodys rights to the game have been revoked !!

20th anniversary of Rallisport Challenge 2 this year and Midtown Madness 3 turns 21 this year
2 of my favourite OG Xbox games, had loads of fun playing them on system link - criminal we never got more games in the series
Tag and Stayaway on MM3 and the downhill racing on RC2 were incredible
Good times

Didn't realise this had an always online requirement

After The Crew went offline, I never intended to buy an online only game again
I'll be looking to see if I can get a refund on this

I would just like the videos to play - they either don't play or stop after a few seconds - both in the store & in the game card
Happens on all my Xbox consoles Series & One
Can't just be me surely?

Can anyone clear up the Kinect Sports mini games that are on the store?
Are they the same games & modes that are in the full version of Kinect Sports or are they unique modes not in the full game?

@Beetlebum91
Most game updates are <5mb and saved to the cache
However only about 5-6 updates can be saved there, with the oldest being over-written
Where updates are >5mb, they are typically saved to the hard drive as a "DLC" to the game file
For much larger updates, they are sometimes listed as mandatory update DLC in the Marketplace, or even disguised as free DLC with extra characters/levels/etc to encourage players to get the DLC
It is the latter larger files that are of concern as the DLC will be delisted next week
The small 5mb files are the ones that concern me more as there are only a few stored in the cache and are typically used to allow DLC to be identified by the game, so in theory if they are no longer downloaded, DLC will stop working

Still trying to download 6 or 7 games I bought 3-4 years ago without success due to the 0% reset issue; I keep trying from time to time on various 360's in the hope it will work eventually - it did for SW Episode 3, but not Max Payne 1 & 2, Manhunter, Red Dead Revolver amongst others

Is Phil breaking cover to present this Showcase?

Still no comments from Phil - usually we would have heard something from him by now

I can see Microsoft selling off the XBox division
That way MS become software focused & can still sell Game Pass to XBox users. Sony & Nintendo may allow GP on their consoles as MS would no longer be a hardware competitor
MS could possibly get away with having to have games day 1 on XBox and then sell copies for 6 months, say, before adding to the service - that would avoid the would CoD issue of losing sales from day 1 on XBox
Also, how long until Phil is on "gardening leave" ??
I would have him down as heading up investors if XBox were to be sold off

It will be interesting to hear Phil's first public comments about the situation - assuming he is still there; he has been conspicuous by his absence and radio silence for the past week

Hope they fix why it takes almost 18gigs of Reserved Space on top of the actual download

There is something weird with this on XBox - the games is a 17.8gb download but it also adds another 17.6gb in Reserved Space to take up around 35gb in total
For reference most games use very little reserved space, the worst that I had noticed were GTA V & RDR 2 with 16gb each
From what I played it is not worth the download - a very poor Flatout clone and I would say the OG XBox games played better....

Just put a pre-order in at Smyths for £149.99
I think this went out of stock pretty quickly at launch in the US, but was eventually restocked

I took the plunge & preordered on XBox and the install size is 56gigs on both Series X & XBox One !!
The backwards compatible OG XBox games only take up about 8 gigs each - really don't understand where the extra 40 gigs is going as they don't look that different to each other

The daily activities on PC have dropped from 10 points yesterday to 1 point today; it's not looking too good for the rewards now on top of the cooldown on doing quick searches

had a look at the todays dailies on pc and they have gone from 10 points to 1 point now !!!

I only got 90 today for searching - no Edge bonus today - was there yesterday
Also the jigsaw pieces for searching has been greyed out for the last week or two for me
Did notice that the ios Bing app gave 30 points for reading the news headlines

Currently only have 6823, but my lifetime total is 1,362,342

Spent that on £5 & £10 gift cards over the years - I did go through a phase of buying games from the Brazil marketplace which seemed to give you silly amounts when calculating the points due. Thats stopped now as you can only get points from one region a day and it's easier to do the daily stuff on a pc

The OG Xbox version still looks amazing on Series X with all the behind the scenes enhancements making it already look like a fairly modern game, certainly not a 20 year old one

Wonder if we will see the Angry Birds games relisted for XB1 (& 360)?

Loved Far Cry 3 co-op and bought the XB1 Remaster without realising it was cut from it - gutted
The 360 version on Series X is supposed to be even better than the remaster as it now runs in 4k at 60fps
Surprised that the co-op mode never resurfaced in subsequent iterations of the game
Always a fight for who gets to play as Callum in the RFC top
I think the PS3 version had an extra DLC level for co-op, which I don't think ever came to the 360 version

Don't know what is up with Rewards for me as its not tracking any achievements I have unlocked - was on a 47 week streak with the weekly set and could not unlock it as my achievements were not recognised; dailies are not tracking, and the specials or monthlies are not picking up the achievements either

Rewards Support asked me to upload a video of the problem, but how do you do that when something is not happening??

Getting points for everything else, so it doesn't look like I have maxxed out the annual allowance
Deleted the app & tried on different consoles & same results
Very frustrating as so many points going to waste !!

Thought I had bought this digitally on 360, but apparently not
Went to buy it digitally & it has been delisted (same with Halo 4) - when did that happen??

@d0x3601 - thanks for reading - to clarify, the problem is with downloading some 360 games onto my xbox 360 consoles, they will get to 99% downloaded & then reset to 0% and this keeps going in an endless loop - this is not an XBox One issue - a school of though is it is related to ISP and your dns ipv4 servers and it happens on multiple 360 consoles and games that are backwards compatible on XB1 seem to be the majority of the titles that no longer download to my 360s

The separate issue I have on XB1 is that apparently my & everyone else's digital license for FIFA 15 has been revoked.
It no longer appears in my purchase history & I therefore cannot install it on my XB1's, and where I did have it previously installed it no longer works, despite it being my home console and online or offline makes no difference; the only thing I can see is that there is no acquisition date when you look at the properties tab in my games & apps. My though is that something has gone wrong with the delisting process and having gamepass ultimate, where it was available as a EAPlay title

I've been all digital since the early days of XB1 & have expanded that to 360 titles

HOWEVER I am very concerned by recently noticing that my XB1 download version of FIFA15 no longer works on my "home" console or even shows up on my purchase history on other machines

Support informed me that the game has been "delisted & removed" and was told ALL XBOX DIGITAL LICENSES HAVE BEEN REVOKED ie it is impossible to play a downloaded version of the game & it will not work offline - I suspect that something has gone wrong with the delisting process with having gamepass ultimate & owning the game

Also very irritated by the fact that many 360 games will not now download to my 360s - gets to 99% then keeps looping back to 0%

On the 360, it made playing the hidden text adventure Zork so much easier on CoD: Black Ops (1or2?)

Wonder if part of the deal to release it is that it can't be sold individually
Seems like it is only being advertised as being available on Gamepass, Rare Replay & the Switch Online Service - all of which mean that it is not sold separately ie it is part of an online service or added free to an existing compilation

My digital version of FIFA 15 no longer works - think when delisting it they have messed up the DRM/entitlements to it
Got it installed on my Series X & it wont start as it says I don't have the rights to it & it doesn't show up in my purchased games history, despite having the purchase confirmation email from 19/9/14 and working previously

Would be keen to see if it is just me or if others are affected to

Shame Sega Superstar Tennis was never made backwards compatible - think it was one of the few 1080p 360 titles

Would be good if they could fix the issue with many games downloading to 99% then resetting - bought 3 DOA games this week in the sales & not one of them will download to any of my 360's

Sometimes I'm not too bothered about having the best version on my Series X; when I only play a game maybe one of twice a month with my mates online - World of Tanks/Warships/Modern Warfare, I'm happy to play with XB1X version off an external HDD rather than have a couple of hundred GB taken up with them on my internal drive. Each of these games is pretty big & with MW being 238gb takes well over an hour to copy from HDD to SSD
Plus surely some games do not need to be run from SSD eg Pinkman, Two Kingdoms. Also there is no consistency with the 10mb unlock keys for DLC - some must be installed on the SSD whereas some will happily work off an external HDD with the base game on the SDD
At least give us the option to install which version we want to play, especially if you regularly swap external drives between XB1X & Series X

@Shigurui Thanks for the advice - gave it a go & still getting the same issues on the 3 x 360's (2xPAL / 1xNTSC) I have setup
I dread to think how many of the 1100 odd 360 digital titles I have I would be able to get working if i had to redownload them again

Been frustrated for the last few years with the problems downloading 360 & BC titles due to the 79% or endless loop issues - probably 50% of the titles i've bought just wont complete the download on any of my 360's - OK on XB1

Bought Spongebob last month & despite trying pretty much everyday it will not download to any of my 360s - fine on XBSX, but on 360 gets to 99% then resets to 0% in an endless loop