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Greenberg: 250GB Xbox 360 hard drives are for bundles only

Posted Feb 14, 2010 at 11:10AM EST by Karl B.

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Aaron Greenberg, games for windows, Microsoft
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People may go for smaller and smaller gadgets these days, but in terms of hard drive space, most still adhere to the "bigger is better" adage. Microsoft has pumped up their Xbox 360s with injections of 250GB hard drives, but according to Aaron Greenberg, gamers will have to spring for limited edition bundles if they want those hard drives for their machines.

 

The Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Product Manager recently told Joystiq that they currently have no plans to offer 250GB Xbox 360 hard drives outside of their special edition bundles.

 

"We did it with the Modern Warfare bundle, which, as people know, was a huge success, completely sold out," he said. "We're excited to bring it back with the limited edition Final Fantasy bundle."

 

"We're always evaluating," he continued, "but for now we feel like the 120 is serving us very well as the standard offering, and then having the 250 as a limited edition is a good balance."

 

Greenberg noted that most of Xbox Live services such as Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, and even the Zune Video Marketplace don't require large amounts of drive space. He did concede, however, that game demos and a lot of add-on content do take up space, so we may yet see official hard drives with bigger capacities on the market.

 

 

 

Via [Joystiq]



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+1 # RE: Greenberg: 250GB Xbox 360 hard drives are for bundles onlyKarl B. 2010-02-14 12:18
Now that they've blocked Datel from releasing their own third-party hard drives, I guess Microsoft can totally decide when gamers deserve to get bigger drives.

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-2 # nopeGuest 2010-02-14 13:02
M$ only blocked MSs not HDs and people who want a 250 gig HD can buy WD 2.5" HD and flash it for 360 use. Of course not all models are supported but users who can flash already know these models anyway :)

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-1 # RE: RE: Greenberg: 250GB Xbox 360 hard drives are for bundles onlyGuest 2010-02-14 13:23
with the recent crack in the security arc. that is based on ms, sony, nintendo's console security i doubt it

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-OodvoFRhEcpfvnK5C7YL6JWJBQD9DO79A81

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+2 # RE: Greenberg: 250GB Xbox 360 hard drives are for bundles onlyGuest 2010-02-14 12:27
wtf microsoft f.u sell the dam 250gb

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# Well isn't it obviouspookiepoo 2010-02-14 13:17
how much do you reckon they would try to sell this for?

probably 1/2 the price of the console itself or even more

also what they are doing is creating a sense of exclusitivity and "specialness" for the drives (60gb will probably do on the 360 as there are no mandatory installs anyway) so that when they do release it (whcih they will) it will be so magically amazing etc etc that you have to have it

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# Re: Microsoftsouthsidexz 2010-02-14 13:35
What a Rip Off Microsoft is, blocking Datel from releasing their 3rd party accesories and HDD's. Microsoft wants to become a monopoly of its own Console, so if you buy a console, you have to buy pure microsoft at prices incredibly rip-offs.

I don't like Microsoft Xbox360 for that reason, if they let other 3rd party build accesories and actually let the consumer upgrade the HDD anytime without a high expense, then I would think about getting a 360.

But for now I'll stick with my PS3 which went from a 60GB HDD to a 320GB, and wait till the summer if I get a 1TB HDD, the 60GB got full one point, so I had to get a bigger drive, I got music, Videos, Movies, Games, Demos, Add-on, Pictures in there. PS3 HDD'S = Laptop HDD's so I can easily buy an HDD at a really great deal, and switch it to my laptop or PS3.

Microsoft is a disappointment.....That's why you lost one potential customer (me) since the beginning.

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# Nintendo tried this with the nesGuest 2010-02-14 17:46
I remember in the late 80s when Nintendo tried what M$ is doing with the fail-box360 With the price fixing,and trying to crush the 3rd party accesories makers. It took a law sewt to make them stop. But the best way to let M$ know you dont like the way you are being treated is to Stop buying the hunk of junk.

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# ...Guest 2010-02-14 19:30
you sound like a douche. you're the disappointment...

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# That's BS!Guest 2010-02-14 22:28
I work in an indie videogame store and 120GB HDDs are discontinued,ou r suppliers also provided us with infos on 250GB HDDs.

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# RE: Greenberg: 250GB Xbox 360 hard drives are for bundles onlyGuest 2010-02-15 01:50
Rofl microsoft f.kng their cstumers.... again ^^

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# RE: Greenberg: 250GB Xbox 360 hard drives are for bundles onlyGuest 2010-02-15 01:55
I personally on 3 consoles, all with 120Gb HD's. 2 of these are at around the 45Gb mark (remaining) so i would love to upgrade to a 250 or even bigger. When you own ALL arcade games an a fair bit of add-on content it fills the drives damn quick. M$ stop screwing around an just release the HD.

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