Yes indeed the HDD will cost a lot! But if nothing else, people can get the 4 Gb and use their own flash drives. Simply put, 4Gb (internal) + 16Gb (8x2 external)= 20Gb!
"Actually, its 4gigs(internal flash), 32gigs usb jump drive(8x4 or 16x2)...on paper 36gigs total."
Actually, for real this time... 16gb is the maximum external space you can use. 1x16, 2x8.
20gb total.
Right from xbox.com "Why does Xbox 360 only support 16GB of storage, even though I have a much larger device? Supporting USB storage devices up to 16GB in size is a huge increase in storage over any solid state memory storage solutions currently available for Xbox 360. Users that need more storage have options in the Xbox 360 hard drives, which are available for purchase separately."
I already have a PS3 as my primary console and because of that, I have no intention of paying for XBOX LIVE.
Also, there are about 3 or 4 exclusive franchises I truly want....MASS EFFECT, FABLE, GEARS OF WAR. There might be a couple more, but that's all I can come up with at the moment besides a couple XBOX LIVE Arcade titles.
The point is, 20GB would work fine for me.
Also, a few people on CRAIGSLIST sometimes sell 20GB HD's for about 30 bucks or so.
Look, he even wrote a blog about it. "Getting past the fanboy and back to the fan".
Past the fanboy and back to the fan, now back to me, now back to the fanboy, now back to me again. Sadly he's a fanboy. But if he stopped trolling 360 articles and switched to writing constructive comments he could look like a non-fanboy. I'm on N4G.
chances are it wont. Regardless of proprietary design, I think a 60 or 80gb on the low should be made. Maybe even a 120gb to coincide with a 250 or possibly a 320gb.
Pricing would obviously be an issue unless due to the change in enclosure design they could make the drive closer to reasonably priced equivalents.
People dont realize that under a proprietary format, you are guaranteed 100% compatibility. I recently upped the 80gb in my ps3 to a 160gb but i had to shop around for certain parameters (rotational speed, noise, heat, cache, access times, etc).
You dont have to worry about that stuff when buying a 360 hdd. You just have to worry about how much it will suck from your wallet.
"you are guaranteed 100% compatibility" Thats does not justify the very high costs for a xbox HDD. Also i've never used those parameters for a PS3 HDD, just size.
$160 of your looking at the Xbox.ca site but seeing as they don't sell the products themselves that leaves you back to square one: http://www.xbox.com/en-CA/h...
Goddammit I am pissed that MS didnt make a HD standard, its so effing RETARDED. Besides RROD, this is the worst design choice they could have made, because the Arcade has gimped many a game. I still cant figure out why it is they could make it standard for the 1st Xbox, but not the 360.
And it'll be at *least* $100, versus a real-world non-proprietary $40-50 bucks. Despicable.
I don't understand what they were thinking. If you're not going to make it a standard feature for your console, at least make it generic. (E.g. It would make more sense for a proprietary HD to be in a console that comes with one as a standard component.)
I'll cost...
With no real relevant information like a release date much less pricing.
How is this news?
You'd also think, maybe, that since MS is putting out this 4GB Core slim they'll offer smaller "cheaper" HDD.
Onry 400 dorrars! Onry fo you!
we all know it will be expensive