360 250GB HDD Won't Be Sold Separately

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madd-hatter

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As far as the MW2 bundle...

I'm positive MW2 will be a great game. Bundling it with 2 black controllers and a 250 gig harddrive sounds freakin awesome and is going to translate into good sales figures.

But c'mon... That console is ugly. The regular elite's are way better.

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Well I've yet to find anyone who plays their PS3 or 360 outside :rofl:

What if you're using that device from the other thread I posted to stream your PS3/360 outside and you're using it there! Huh? Huh? What about that? Or you could use it on that handheld Xbox 1080 thing I also posted about. See, there's an intricate web to my posts. ;)

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I suppose the price isn't quite right for MS to offer the 250GB on it's own atm. Or they could be holding off on that till after this MW2 limited edition sells out. No need to kill this SKU's momentum before it's even out the door by saying anyone can get the biggest selling point the thing has on their own. That takes the whole idea behind "limited edition" deals and makes them kinda pointless.

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Who the hell makes these decisions over at MS; I think it might be the people who got fired from PS3 team for making bad decision and now have a job at MS.

Maybe they are the same people who thought that releasing and marketing 360 in japan at huge scale was a good thing to do.

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Very good points!!

I'll add one more:

4 years later after release the console still ships with the same design mistake that causes both GPU and CPU to desolder (RROD)

No it doesn't, they revised it twice.

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Smigit

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Seriously, WTF is making these decisions at MS cause they need beaten with a rubber hose!

Examples of a serious lack of logic by Microsoft marketing:

* MS ushers in HD era for gaming originally by making the minimum requirement 720p for all games which they have now abolished.

* They finally drop the price of they elite to remain competitive but decide no one needs HD cables.

* They decide that its time to start selling full 360 titles via download and do not announce larger HDDs to accommodate the inevitable need.

* MS finally decides to release a bigger HDD but only make it available to those buying a new console.

agreed, especially on points 2 - 4. Honestly I don't get the HDD pricing strategy one iota to be honest. Not just the price but the capacity issues as well. It just seems illogical to me that for a company that has so much riding on it's downloadable content and related services that they would also price the HDD at a point where people are having more than a second thought as to whether they want to get it. Releasing at 20GB, 14GB of which was useable was bad enough, not to mention the versions without the HDD but they've constantly been behind the game in regards to capacity and pricing of the unit.

Sure, they need to make a profit on it...I won't say otherwise. But if they were priced better people would be more inclined to download more. Hell even throw in a movie rental or two with the HDD to try and hook people into the service. Or maybe they wouldn't make more money...I dunno...well I can only assume MS has done the maths here but IMHO it just seems idiotic to me.

I still wish that for that $200AU or there abouts you were getting a 200 - 320GB drive as opposed to the 120. Even that would be selling it at close to or over twice the price of the drive on it's own. It'd certainly make me more inclined to download full games if I didn't have to start worrying about micro managing my drives storage.

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mokthraka

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just got back from gamestop but $50 to reserve the console.

and just checked my schedual for school we dont have school on the 11th! so once I get home im going to go get it then use it to like midnight wake up and use it all day :p

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