Microsoft Corp. is giving consumers more gigabytes for their buck. The company today announced an Xbox 360 console with triple the storage space of the original console, but for the same price of $349 (U.S.) estimated retail price (ERP).Available in retail stores in the U.S. and Canada starting in early August, the upgraded Xbox 360 will include a 60GB hard drive for storing the growing wealth of digital entertainment available for the console, including music, movies, television shows and game content. In addition, Microsoft today dropped the price of its 20GB Xbox 360 console in the U.S. and Canada to just $299 (U.S.) (ERP) while supplies last, a savings of $50.
“We know consumers need more and more space to store the amazing digital content Xbox 360 offers, and we’re giving it to them at no extra charge,” said Albert Penello, Xbox director of product management at Microsoft. “No one device offers the depth and breadth of entertainment that Xbox 360 can deliver, and now you’ll have three times the storage to manage all that great content.”
Xbox 360 is just one of three Xbox 360 gaming and entertainment systems Microsoft offers. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Arcade, which comes with a 256MB memory unit and five Xbox LIVE Arcade games, is a value for the whole family for $279 (U.S.) (ERP), and the premium Xbox 360 Elite console is available with a 120GB hard drive for $449 (U.S.) (ERP).
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mostly because i cant really connect the device to my laptop....
need that wireless thing.
/might I mention that everything seemed a bit "snappier" after upgrading from the 20 to 120GB drive
//makes sense when you think about it; definetly a nice upgrade
/might I mention that everything seemed a bit "snappier" after upgrading from the 20 to 120GB drive
//makes sense when you think about it; definetly a nice upgrade
That sounds like what would be needed for a drive sold as an Xbox 360 drive. What about a regular SATA drive I bought off of newegg or some such?
That doesn't sound like a standard drive package to me. I meant, can you use any SATA (or IDE?) drive you'd use in a standard PC, does it have to be preformatted, or does the console provide the options to do it, etc. What if the console's brand new and doesn't have anything on it yet that you need to have transferred?
Last edited by _dandy_ on 16 Jul 2008 - 18:18
Maybe around November I bet.
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