Xbox 360 elite spotted with 250gb hardrive?

Margaret said:
Wow it gets worse.

Same goes for my PS3 mind, that's why I've never used up much space on that. The fact it doesn't playback .mkv just kills all interest in doing so.
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You can convert .mkv to .vob with no changes to quality though and the ps3 will play them.
 
I've got .mkv files streaming (not transcoding) natively to my 360 using Windows 7, Media Center & DivX Tech Preview (and AC3 filter for the .avi files)

All work perfectly at 1080p in Media Center on the 360, love it. Going to buy a second one for the living room.
 
Why do people always say 'you will never need a hard drive that big!' when something like this happens, game installs are what 6-7GB? If you transfer HD movies over they can be about 12GB each.

Games have steadily got bigger hence why were now up to DVD and Blu-Ray, of course the more space the better, things always get bigger!
 
For starters you can't transfer movies over to the 360 hard drive, also I don't see what bluray has to do with this as the 360 doesn't support it, so we're limited to a maximum of let's say 9gig per game (even though in practice it's less than that). Using your stated value of 7gig per game that's approximately 35 games installed. But then, maybe you want some DLC too, i'd say setting aside 20 gig for that would be sufficient which still leaves you with over 30 games installed at any one time.

I don't think anyone really needs 30 games installed hence why i feel 250gig is overkill. If the 360 adds support to store movies on its hard drive my opinion will change however. I've got three games installed (more than i need) and quite a few xbox live titles on a 60gig hard drive and still have half of it to spare.
 
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Streeteh said:
For starters you can't transfer movies over to the 360 hard drive, also I don't see what bluray has to do with this as the 360 doesn't support it, so we're limited to a maximum of let's say 9gig per game (even though in practice it's less than that). Using your stated value of 7gig per game that's approximately 35 games installed. But then, maybe you want some DLC too, i'd say setting aside 20 gig for that would be sufficient which still leaves you with over 30 games installed at any one time.

I don't think anyone really needs 30 games installed hence why i feel 250gig is overkill. If the 360 adds support to store movies on its hard drive my opinion will change however. I've got three games installed (more than i need) and quite a few xbox live titles on a 60gig hard drive and still have half of it to spare.
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An excellent argument, well said!

The only thing you missed was the games on demand service where you will probably want all your games installed at once as it's a very big download to play them again if you delete them.
 
Kreeeee said:
An excellent argument, well said!

The only thing you missed was the games on demand service where you will probably want all your games installed at once as it's a very big download to play them again if you delete them.
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Cheers :p

Good point, i did forget about those. As it stands i view the games on demand service is more of an impulse buy service, not a 'mainstream' way of purchasing games. The prices are typically double that of the second hand market and still more expensive than buying a disk new, because of that i feel people will only buy the odd title here and there as opposed to purchasing a large portion of their games collection from the service. So at present i wouldn't say it's a really a large factor in what hard drive size people choose (in fact i don't know anyone who has bought from the games on demand service yet!).

If the pricing of the service becomes more competitive then i could very well see hard drive size becoming a greater issue, but if i'm honest i don't see 'retail game' digital distribution becoming mainstream until at least the next generation of consoles at the earliest. With that said, there's a good chance i could be wrong, it will be interesting to see how the service develops as frankly i love other forms of digital distribution (xbox arcade, PSN and Steam) so i would certainly use the service if it became more competitive.
 
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Ok, I do apologise about the movie part, my fault for being in PS3 mode :p

However, my argument to the point is, people complain that theres no point. Just because there is no point for THEM yet I bet there will be many people who do find a way to fill it up.

Also, any particularly reason why the 360 can't have movies on the hard drive? Nothing to do with a fanboy argument but as the PS3 can do it, i'm surprised the 360 can't, Hardware/Software limitation?
 
I would only upgrade to a larger hard drive if they removed the need to still insert your game disks even if the game is installed to the hard drive.

Don't really see why they put that feature in of having the need to have the disk in. If it was an attempt to stop piracy, i really don't see how it has helped.
 
Nymins said:
I would only upgrade to a larger hard drive if they removed the need to still insert your game disks even if the game is installed to the hard drive.

Don't really see why they put that feature in of having the need to have the disk in. If it was an attempt to stop piracy, i really don't see how it has helped.
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Ok so
You rip a new game to your HD, pass to your friend he does it, you all do it.
That's 30 people with a game and only 1 person had to buy it.
 
Conscept said:
Ok so
You rip a new game to your HD, pass to your friend he does it, you all do it.
That's 30 people with a game and only 1 person had to buy it.
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Yea i didn't think of that actually. Guess it does make sense.

But surely they could change it so installing a game ties it to your gamertag and your gamertag only? Or make it so that you must have be online to play it and it ties it to your Console ID/serial?
 
Too difficult to identify each copy. So far as Microsoft is concerned, why even risk it? They've added a feature for convenience which even that they didn't need to do. Having to put the disk in is hardly a biggy.
 
Nymins said:
Yea i didn't think of that actually. Guess it does make sense.

But surely they could change it so installing a game ties it to your gamertag and your gamertag only? Or make it so that you must have be online to play it and it ties it to your Console ID/serial?
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This may cause problems when it comes to reselling the games maybe?
And yeah it's not too bad having to put the disc in ;P
 
Memphis said:
Too difficult to identify each copy. So far as Microsoft is concerned, why even risk it? They've added a feature for convenience which even that they didn't need to do. Having to put the disk in is hardly a biggy.
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Suppose so. I never really took to the idea from the start. If you need to have your disk in the drive, then just play it from the disk and save yourself the hard drive space. Sure its a bit louder, so turn the volume up. Loading times aren't reduced enough to warrant it imo. Just my thoughts, ill probably end up getting flamed for the noise comment :p

Conscept said:
This may cause problems when it comes to reselling the games maybe?
And yeah it's not too bad having to put the disc in ;P
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True actually. Never thought of all these things! :)
 
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