XBox360: HardDrive Required

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Ripper^ said:
I would, but why dont they wait until the start of next season now :@
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They had to reduce the resolution etc.. Make sure it all fits in on screen in 640x480. Hopefully they will have added the January transfers too.
 
I heard about this too. Absolutely wrong IMO, every game should run on the core system.

MS really made a huge error of judgement in not having the HDD as standard in all 360s.
 
Or a very purposeful judgement.

Get a next gen console on the market with a shelf price of £209, Sell all the extras such as cables, memory cards etc, in the full knowledge that within 12 months gamers will need to upgrade to the hard drive (and after 12 months people actually wont really mind paying to upgrade).

Its actually quite a clever ploy. I'm sure if a game came out this month that didnt play on the core there would be uproar, but leave it a while, let people get over the initial £209 they've spent, playing great games using the memory card etc and an extra £70 is easier for them to swallow.
 
It's a games console, not a PC. What next, an upgradeable graphics card or RAM? When I first heard this news I had to check around as I was sure it must be a spoof story. Apparently it isn't.
 
dirtydog said:
It's a games console, not a PC. What next, an upgradeable graphics card or RAM? When I first heard this news I had to check around as I was sure it must be a spoof story. Apparently it isn't.
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The N64 was a games console and had an upgrade :p
 
Smit said:
The N64 was a games console and had an upgrade :p
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Did it, what sort of upgrade?

When you can get an 80GB HDD for £25 retail I don't know why they didn't just add that to the cost of the core and sell *ONE* type of Xbox360 only, for say £250. Like they did with the first Xbox in other words. Then every single Xbox owner gets the exact same user experience.
 
Nismo said:
Some games required a memory upgrade pack to be installed.
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Perfect Dark was one. It only allowed the full gaming experience with an upgrade installed. Without the upgrade, you couldnt even play the single player game!

So it was basically a 2 player multiplayer game without the upgrade.
 
Jofujofu said:
Perfect Dark was one. It only allowed the full gaming experience with an upgrade installed. Without the upgrade, you couldnt even play the single player game!

So it was basically a 2 player multiplayer game without the upgrade.
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It wasn't only 3rd party developed games that needed the upgrade. It was Nintendo's own Zelda Majora's Mask that needed it. I remember the deal for Donkey Kong 64 with the bundled upgrade disappearing off the shelves like **** off a shovel.

Every company out there has pulled stunts like this and not just in the gaming world.
 
dirtydog said:
When you can get an 80GB HDD for £25 retail I don't know why they didn't just add that to the cost of the core and sell *ONE* type of Xbox360 only, for say £250. Like they did with the first Xbox in other words. Then every single Xbox owner gets the exact same user experience.
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Thats for a 3.5" drive though. You'd be hard pushed to find a 80GB 2.5" drive for under 70 quid. I do agree that they should have all been shipped with hdd as standard. Especially if it's going to be required for certain games.
 
It would be nice if you could buy a Harddrive :mad: , has for FM I wonder if it will run faster on a xbox360 than it would on a PC.
 
Sagalout said:
Or a very purposeful judgement.

Get a next gen console on the market with a shelf price of £209, Sell all the extras such as cables, memory cards etc, in the full knowledge that within 12 months gamers will need to upgrade to the hard drive (and after 12 months people actually wont really mind paying to upgrade).

Its actually quite a clever ploy. I'm sure if a game came out this month that didnt play on the core there would be uproar, but leave it a while, let people get over the initial £209 they've spent, playing great games using the memory card etc and an extra £70 is easier for them to swallow.
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Idea falls apart when you realise you can't buy half the accessories for love nor money! But I have no doubt MS specifically packaged it for largest revenue, otherwise they would have just sold only premiums like they do in japan.
 
starscream said:
Thats for a 3.5" drive though. You'd be hard pushed to find a 80GB 2.5" drive for under 70 quid. I do agree that they should have all been shipped with hdd as standard. Especially if it's going to be required for certain games.
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What was stopping them putting a 3.5" drive in the 360? If it wouldn't fit then they could have made the console an inch longer. The first Xbox uses 3.5" drives after all.
 
Also if you think the about the quantities involved - there is no way M$ couldnt have budled an 60 or 80Gb 2 1/2 " drive for £70, admittedly they wouldnt be making anywhere near as much profit, but it woudl still be there no doubt - remember even 80Gb 2 1/2" drives are near if not completely "End of Life" from manufacturers point of view - M$ would go straight to seagate or whoever and get a stonking price ( andthe plastic packaging and adaptors would be mere $ in comparison)

Just M$ ripping customers off as usual - nothing particularly new
 
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