In a world where the PS3 has a 80gb hard drive, when you can find them, the 20gb 360 hard drive looks a little inadequate, although ultimately practical for most gamers. Well, here comes a 60gb Xbox 360, which doesn’t really help those of us that already have one. Not to knock the PS3, but if you don’t have 4 gig installs why would you need such a beast?
Some might say that it’s not the size that counts, but how you use it. It’s actually quite correct in this case. There’s no reason you couldn’t make it last.
If you are an XBL arcade fanatic, you can burn through your disk space in no time. A few demos here, a few Crank Shafts and Undertows there, combined with some expansion DLC and you’ll find yourself short on space. Here’s an idea, delete some of those arcade games that aren’t CoD4, Bad Company, or whatever the real flavor of the month is. You don’t play them anyway. Even if you feel the urge to replay them, you can. Just re-download them with no charge. It would also be a good idea to delete those large demos like the 1.5 gb Bad Company monster.
If you’re a big trader of games, get rid of the DLC for the games you no longer have, or you’re not going to play anymore. No sense in keeping the two map packs for Rainbow Six Vegas when you know that you have no reason to play it. If you say that you do, you’re lying. Unless you’re an achievement whore, then you opinion is void. Good luck playing with the three other guys that haven’t made the leap to better shooters.
The 20 can last, 60 would be nice though because I miss my Culdacept Saga demo… kidding.
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Just a question, can you not just plug in a big eff-off usb stick or drive into the x360? and if not why not? (if not then thats gay)
Well 20 is small but you can get 120 but that is expensive so yeah it would be nice if we had a 40 or 60 or maybe 80
my 20 gig hard drive was not even 20 it was 14 or 12 i mean why microsoft WHY so we need bigger HDD
no you can not put a USB drive and use it like a X360 HDD
The key to not filling up that 360 HD is to stop buying crap XBL games.
Maybe that’s why they’re coming out with a bigger one…
Dam thats just lame as a tramps worn out wallet, y cant u use external storage as an expansion? If the X360 has USB2 and u can get drives that will run on that port as quick as you need them to then why? oh why, cant u use them? oh hang on that means people can stop using microC@nt hardware to enhance their console.
That must be why i game (and the rest) on a PC. Because on PC’s the hardware market has a thing called competition, which drives prices lower than a rip-off.
Look at the price of their wireless adapters? They should be called wallet-less adaptors.
The only piece of hardware i’ve seen of good value from microsoft is the hardware they make for PC’s, like the 360 controller, the keyboards and mice. But not the software admitedly.
Dam that annoys me, if u couldn’t tell.
Hell yeah mike! I hear ya.
Pc gaming rocks. I love sitting down for 40 minutes installing the PC equivalent of bad company looking at those 5 pictures in the installer. I love those progress bars too.. I paid for this damn game I’m going to get my money’s worth from the installer.
Taco, just because pc games have to install, doesnt make them better. True you have to wait for an install, but they seldom take 40 minutes.
There are many benifits to playing games on a PC, not to bash consoles, I play most of my games on consoles myself. But loading times are often faster because its reading the content off of a hard drive, not a disc. Processors in PCs are relatively equal to, if not better than consoles. PCs have more ram and better video cards as well.
There is one huge benifit as well: A PC can always be upgraded to run the latest games, with new processors, graphics cards, more RAM, etc. With a console, you can’t just upgrade one component, you have to buy a whole new system. Then your old games won’t work, where on PCs, backwards compatibillity is not an issue 99% of the time.
Besides Soul Calibur IV on the 360 is going to require a hard drive install, the same with Alone in the Dark. Some of the 360 games are also optimized for a hard drive, while they are not mandatory, they do help the system perform better.
So would Soul Caliber IV really be that much different than a PC game, you still have to install it. I suppose it would have its differences though. It would have worse video, and audio on the 360. And it would be slower, and have a worse framerate. But were talking about Hard Drives, not the 360’s other downfalls.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of future games require a Hard Drive to run. Just another way for Micro$oft to royally screw all of the end users. They have become exceedingly good at that.
(Too bad for all of the 360 Core/Arcade Owners who want Soul Caliber)
Mike, take you FLAMING, anti-microsoft, pro PS3 but somewhere else to whine. We are trying to have a descent thread here. But for some reason you keep repeating the same useless, negative information.
FOR GOD SAKES!! GO AWAY!!!
JerkSpotter, take your bitchy, non spell-checked, grammatically incorrect statements somewhere else.
In defense of Mike, he didnt say a single thing about a PS3. And he wasn’t really flaming. It’s well known fact that Microsoft doesn’t excel with support and feature intergration after a product is introduced. And everyone knows that the wireless adapters for the Xbox 360 do suck @$$.
In fact, he said that microsoft had good hardware. People who are aganst something don’t compliment it – quod erat demonstrandum.
Jerkspotter….. why are you assuming that he is pro PS3? He said nothing about that console. Just because he has a little problem with a Microsoft product?
i have a 320gb hd……
…..on my ps3.
JG,
For the cost of upgrading your PC annually, you can have an Xbox 360 with 20Gb every year!
PC might have it’s advantages, but the cost of hardware far exceed the benefits.
Ano,
Actually, that is a common misconception. When people think computers, people think an expensive, (sometimes) bug ridden, peice of technology that constantly requires updating. This is not true. Once you own a PC it can run the vast majority of games and applications that you need in the future, often with a life of 7-8 years (perhaps less in games, 5-6.) Even when you do need to upgrade, it doesn’t cost much.
People think that you need a state of the art computer to run Crysis, for example. But most people don’t realize that a computer as old as a Pentium 4 with a 6000 series (theyre up to 9000 series) graphics card can run Crysis. Not at max settings, but enough to enjoy the game.
I’m not saying your wrong, I am just saying that the general belief is that, and the general belief is incorrect.
http://shadowbird.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/non-usb-storage-hate/
Wow Dave.. MS decides to include an extra 40 Gb for the same or lower price in the 360, and you somehow turn that into a bad thing. With Elites pretty scarce, you’d think this would be great news.