Major Nelson has tweeted this news yesterday which talked about a new live update for the Xbox 360. Microsoft released the last major update in May which was a huge step to combat piracy as it disabled the ability to play pirates games on flashed consoles.
There is nothing new added in this update. According to Major Nelson “This update is preparation for additional system enhancements coming to Xbox 360 later this year.” This could mean that it is in preparation for the upcoming fall 2011 dashboard update.
We don’t know if this update will repeat the same thing as done by previous update and reflash the console to strip away pirating capabilities. Since after the spring 2011 dashboard update hit live in May, Pirates were successfully able to counter it by releasing a new firmware which allowed a console to retain its ability to play pirated games. People could easily flash their consoles with this firmware and could even go on Live without any fear of ban as this firmware worked stealthy.
If this update is as a counter measure for this new firmware then Microsoft is finally acknowledging the importance of piracy. This update will be released today on July 19th so better get ready for it.
Update: It seems like this update has introduced new AP checks on certain games which includes Call of Duty: Black Ops as well. This means that pirates won’t be able to play the games which were given additional security in this update.
Update 2: It seems to have different results on different drive. The most recent DVD drives which are Lite-On cannot play all the old AP 2.5 games due to new checks. The list of games that are not working due to new AP checks are:
- Black Ops
- AC Brotherhood
- Halo Reach
- Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
- Fable 3
Source: Major Nelson
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