The new feature smartly addresses the unpleasant friction of waiting for installs, especially if game sizes are only getting larger (as well as their patches). This has usually been a trimmed-down, demo-sized slice of the game that isn’t worth the bother, especially if you can’t start a career in a sports game or the main campaign in an adventure.

Since 2013, players have frowned at bringing home a disc from the store, waiting a long time to install it - and, by the way, the day-one patch that usually goes with most launches today.įor this console generation, Microsoft and Sony tried to take the edge off the inconvenience by requiring that all games have a “ready-to-start” mode for users to fiddle around with while the rest of the title installs. The quality-of-life implications here should be obvious: Every game on the Xbox One (and, one assumes, the next console series) must be installed to the hard drive, in full, whether the player has its disc or not. We assume this will be part of the customary large-scale update that the Xbox dashboard gets in November, but we’re asking for confirmation there, too. We’ve followed up with a Microsoft representative to ask for more details and clarity on when and how this feature will be implemented - whether it will be for all games on the Xbox Store, or only those flagged as “Smart Delivery”, which also affords buy-once compatibility across the console generations.

TgmO3rfUBk- Jerko Cilas September 23, 2020 Now I can either purchase a version or the digital one.

For now, you need Xbox (beta) Android app to initiate the download. Here's proof that I didn't preorder Valhalla, but I can install it through the new Xbox preload functionality.

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