Announcing the 320 GB Media Hard Drive

Later this month a 320GB Media Hard Drive for your Xbox 360 will be available for $129.99 (US ERP.) It will also include a LIVE download code for LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. The Media Hard Drive is compatible with all Xbox 360 S models and will be sold at your favorite Xbox 360 retailer and is available worldwide, the Media Hard Drive will not include the game download code in Japan, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia and the UAE.

[Convas]

500GB HDDs standard with next gen consoles sounds like a plausible theory now.

[chickens]

agreed. just like computer hard drive spaces are rapidly getting bigger, consoles need a lot more space. especially when microsoft are going into the media path a lot now.

[HappyGaming]

I want to upgrade my hard drive so badly but I will lose my Killzone 2 Elite saves because GG dont let you back them up and I am not playing that game on Elite from the beginning again :(

[killerhog]

True, that is why I bought my 500gb toshiba 74 or 7800 rpm internal harddrive for my ps3 for 99$, 3 years ago. I got like: 30 full movies. over 100 series episodes, 10 psn games, bunch of dlc, music, etc and still have 350+ space left. It comes in handy with all the media/features/entertaiment Sony offers.

Though I'm thinking of upping to 1tb internal harddrive by western digitals (I believe) for 99$ I saw on amazon recently..

[CynicalVision]

@Gumtrol

Have you tried using the cloud storage?

[chickens]

he could use a transfer kit? unless that only works from older versions to the new version of the console.

[beastgamer]

50 bucks for 500gb on ps3.
We cooking chicken no flour ;)

[The Real Peter Moore]

$130 for a 320gb hdd? WHAT A RIPP OFF!!! DAMN!!!

[CloseSecond]

In NZ you can get a 2TB drive for less.

[kingPoS]

Who did Microsoft contract to have these made?
Whom ever there provider is I'm guessing they get a 35-60% cut of every hard drive sold...right?

[Dart89]

This to much i got a 500 gb hard drive for my ps3 for around$50 on amazon.Who ever is buying this is getting ripped off big time.

[Jdrm03]

rip off lol.

cheaper to buy a hdd off of newegg, a chinese 360s enclosure knock off, and flash the harddrive yourself.

[badz149]

risk getting BANNED? sounds like a good idea! /s

[Christopher]

Way overpriced, IMHO.

I can get a 320GB external HDD for $50, easily. This is more than twice that.

Ridiculous.

[The Iron Sheik]

LOL!!!

I got a 720GB HDD for my PS3 for less than this.

[ddelella]

320GB = $130 ~ $0.41 per GB (Microsoft)
2TB = $75 ~ $0.04 per GB (Seagate)

Yeah I see how MS math works on pricing out their new "media" hard drive. Getting music or video onto the actual hard drive is too hard anyway. You have to buy them through the marketplace. Shame you can't just move mp3 or avi files. Until they wise up I will stick to stock hard drives and streaming my media.

[ShaunCameron]

Too bad I already bought a 250GB hard drive earlier this year. But then again, I still haven't reached 500MB used yet.

[Hicken]

Wow, so lemme get this straight:

Not only is Microsoft saying you got ripped off when you paid $130 to get that 250GB drive they previously released (which was already more expensive than if you'd just bought the 250GB system in the first place), but they're now saying you'll be ripped off because this hard drive costs entirely too much. Like many others have stated with their own purchases, I'm currently using a 1TB external that I bought for like $80.

THIS is why I don't support Microsoft. Not because I hate the 360, or because I think the games suck. Not because I'm a fanboy who thinks the PS3 is superior.

I don't buy Microsoft stuff because they do everything within their power to milk money out of their consumers. They make entirely too much money to be doing things like this, yet they do it. And what's worse: people DEFEND them for doing it.