Microsoft's Tray And Play Unveiled

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 10, 2005 @08:23PM from the quik-start dept.

Gamespot has a look at Microsoft's upcoming plans for PC gaming. In addition to a definite gaming perspective for the Longhorn OS and a commitment to the XNA studios package, they have word that someday we may be loading PC games much like console games. From the article: "Tray and Play is exactly what it sounds like - dropping a game disc into an optical drive and loading it up immediately, rather than having to install it to a hard drive. True to form, the game itself cut straight to a start-up screen in less than a minute (including the game's own built-in load time)."

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Re:Yes! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-10 21:25 · Score: 3, Informative

Xbox games can have patches and mods so it's not a huge leap to use the same technology with the "Tray and Play" games. The patches and mods are stored on the hard drive and the game checks for them while loading.