320GB hard drive for Xbox 360 S available this month
Is the 4GB drive on your slim Xbox 360 S model driving you mad? Don't worry. Microsoft is releasing a 320GB hard drive, which should sate all your data needs, later this month.
Is the 4GB drive on your slim Xbox 360 S model driving you mad? Don't worry. Microsoft is releasing a 320GB hard drive, which should sate all your data needs, later this month.
The hard drive will retail for $129.99 and will include an Xbox Live download code for LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars.
Microsoft previously released a standalone hard drive for the Xbox S console: a 250GB hard drive retailed for the same price as the newly announced bundle. That means you're getting more GBs for the same amount of $$s.
Unfortunately, Microsoft uses proprietary hard drives for its Xbox hardware, meaning you're subject to quite a hefty markup. A 320GB hard drive would otherwise cost about $50.
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replyAndrew Yoon posted a new article, 320GB hard drive for Xbox 360 S available this month.
Is the 4GB drive on your slim Xbox 360 S model driving you mad? Don't worry. Microsoft is releasing a 320GB hard drive, which should sate all your data needs, later this month.-
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Herp Derp, oh no Microsoft makes money.
I don't know what they do to test these drives, but I've yet to have an Xbox drive fail, and I just had a standard Seagate HDD fail in under 2 years in my computer. So I'm guessing there is a good reason to pay a little bit more per GB for an Xbox drive.-
It's a 2.5" drive
It comes in a proprietary easy install housing
It is encrypted or secure in some way
It's got to be assembled, marketed, packed, tested- despite the supplier already selling them the drive.
It contains the license to Xbox 1 backwards compatibility.
Console manufacturers make $ on accessories.
So tired of people not knowing this for the 360.-
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I chose MBP because it was the best laptop out there for my needs - though I felt the warranty was pretty limited considering what I was paying - but arguably they could make more money by targeting a lower price point, or by releasing lite versions, hence the rumours of a cut-down iPhone to take on the low-end market that Android is doing so well in.
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The pricing on the drive has always been set as the difference between the "arcade" model and the "pro" model that had the largest drive. There was a time when that was quite a bit more than the $130 it is now.
Also, if you compared it to higher quality 2.5" self-enclosed USB drives, it was always competitively priced with those type of drives on the PC side. Yea, it is quite a bit higher when you compare it to bare bones OEM 3.5" drives which most everyone herps and derps about when Microsoft announces a larger size one of these.
Major Nelson also said they do a bit more quality control testing on the drive that was selected, so that's why I threw that out there about my most recent drive failure.
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It should read "sate all your data needs for this month."
Xbox users have it bad compared to the PC gaming master race.-
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Really?
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Suckers
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and what would be the point of this? maybe you think it will improve load times? not likely.
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it comes with lego star wars! totally worth it. Maybe i'll finally own a legit microsoft branded hdd in my x360s now.
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Well, there is also the key strategy for "making up" the loss with a % cut on the games you buy and services you use, hence the higher game prices than PC which adds up over the long term. Its not just buying the initial hardware.
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His point (which is valid), is that for a PC / Laptop and even a PS3, you can just buy a Hard Drive, and put it in.
While I like my 360 as well, the proprietary Hard Drive (and it's ridiculous markup) has always been, and probably always will be, BS.
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