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Play games whilst downloading on your Xbox 360

by Steven Williamson on 12 May 2006, 15:59

Tags: Xbox 360, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Xbox 360

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German website, Xbox Archiv are reporting that there will be a dashboard update at the end of May which will enable gamers to download games and trailers whilst playing games at the same time!

Xbox Archiv state that "We have had confirmation from Boris Schneider-Johne that a huge Dashboard Update will arrive at the end of may! It will feature a download manager for 6 parallel downloads in the background. He also mentions that there will be a lot more features in there but it will be a surprise and he won’t talk aboutit! The downloads will also run whilst a game is played."

The Xbox live marketplace is currently jammed with stuff from E3, and gamers will be delighted that they will no longer have to watch the download bar crawling it's way to the top. Downloading will no longer interfere with your gaming!


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There's a bit of confusion over what the guy actually said, but rumours have it that you'll be able to queue multiple downloads, as opposed to download them all at once.
Once a download finishes, a queued download will begin.
Rumour also has it that all this will be saved to your profile, if you turn your console off and on, it'll pick up downloading where it left off.
Whilst we're at it, it's also supposed to pause the downloads automatically when you begin to play a game, presumably to prevent lag in Live gaming.

All in all, it's supposed to be a ‘major update’, with many more features yet to be revealed.

We'll have to wait and see. One can only hope they add a Dominoes Pizza menu into the 360 dashboard, then we really would never have to leave our seat. :mrgreen: