120 hard drive?

[russakagame]

Sorry if this has been mentioned before but hey. Is there one coming out and if so when. Does anyone know?

thank you in advance

[linkofhyrule]

Well, everyone thinks there's one coming and there probably is, but nothing official from Microsoft just yet.

[Gamemonster]

yes thier was a fake one a while ago shown at some koriean show or somthing? but nothing official yet :(

[russakagame]

hope it does come i will def get one :D would i be able to transfer all my crap from my old one

[JGClifton]

Yes, but you would most likely need something like XSata (google it, they sell it in ePlay if they have a store near you too).

[Mercury25]

Hey guys I work for Intel and HP as a rep and alway get inside stuff way b4 they are released but when I was in store the Microsoft rep walked in so I drilled him about this Rumor about black xbox 360 with 120GB HD and HDMI support and im from Aus so he said 120GB is def on as its been in development since Oct and the Black XBOX 360 is certainly coming but no concrete date as of yet but HDMI is still a rumor the reason is that Microsoft is being careful with this is that its gonna pee off alot of early adopters but the HDs can be purchased as an add on but HDMI can't. Another interesting note was that How would transfer your xbox live details and so forth from the old HD to the new one as supposedly he told me there alot more data than the 64MB memory cards can hold.

[blearkitten]

well you kinda hope that they will bring out a decent sized HD for us, otherwise what's the point in bringing us an IPTV service....not exactly much room for game saves and the entire season of Lost on the current HD is there? lol

[Tolmon]

i bet it would cost a fair few quid :(

[blearkitten]

i bet it would cost a fair few quid :(


mmmm...you are probably right - although if they are keen on selling the idea of all these new services to the UK market then maybe they will play it cute and keep the price at a decent level. after all, would be hard for them to justify a HD costing nearly as much as the Core console wouldnt it?

[Blaze Lord]

Hey guys I work for Intel and HP as a rep and alway get inside stuff way b4 they are released but when I was in store the Microsoft rep walked in so I drilled him about this Rumor about black xbox 360 with 120GB HD and HDMI support and im from Aus so he said 120GB is def on as its been in development since Oct and the Black XBOX 360 is certainly coming but no concrete date as of yet but HDMI is still a rumor the reason is that Microsoft is being careful with this is that its gonna pee off alot of early adopters but the HDs can be purchased as an add on but HDMI can't. Another interesting note was that How would transfer your xbox live details and so forth from the old HD to the new one as supposedly he told me there alot more data than the 64MB memory cards can hold.

That sounds fishy. Xbox Live profiles/gamertags can definitely be stored on a memory card, and so can quite a few game saves. They can also be 'recovered' using the XBL servers, without the need of the end-user manually transferring at all. And if it is too big for a memory unit to handle, why is this MS rep talking about the HDMI rumor and not the larger memory units? If the HDMI is "still a rumor," then why is the MS rep telling you they're concerned about the early adopters? Isn't mentioning that concern confirming the rumor? How can a larger hard drive be "in development" since October? Isn't it simply a matter of putting a larger 2.5" drive in the very same housing as the old 20 GB? Production is different from development, and I'd like to believe that an Intel/HP rep and an MS rep would know the difference between the terms.

To be honest, I'm skeptical about your whole post. Strikes me as very 14-year-old-having-fun. Can any of the admin/mods confirm that he's at least posting from an Australian IP? Don't the Aussies use the British -our convention, so shouldn't this guy be saying 'rumour'?

[Tobes]

Anyone that says "b4" and uses the letters HD instead or HDD doesn't work for Intel and HP.

[Blaze Lord]

I agree. Furthermore, I'm not sure that there are many reps who work for both Intel and HP, and I'm also pretty sure that someone who did wouldn't need to announce to the world that he "alway gets inside stuff for way b4 they are released." Especially when the rest of the story isn't about him actually holding this black HDMI 360 in his hands already. Seems like a way of saying "Be too jealous to think too hard about what I'm saying, please!!"

[Crimepunisher]

Having a 120 hard drive would be nice and all but I imagine the price would be pretty painful. I think I've seen plain 20 gig drives for upwards of $100 here, a 120 drive is hard to imagine.

[fincheyboy]

well theyl have to upgrade the HDD just to keep in competition with Sony (aren't they having a 60GB one?) but what they ought to do is offer a 60GB one for a reduced price to n=anyone who has already spent money on a 20GB one so that the sting is slightly softened coz i can't see myself shelling out nearly £100 just for a HDD.

[blearkitten]

trouble is finchey...more of us WILL happyily shell out £100 for a larger HD....gaming/technology whores that we are lol

[Blaze Lord]

Plus, if you aren't getting tv shows/movies over XBL (and filling up a larger hard drive with that would be expensive in and of itself), there's not much reason to upgrade. Not yet anyways. Maybe when there are dozens and dozens of 400 MB arcade games.

[Scotty Boy]

Plus, if you aren't getting tv shows/movies over XBL (and filling up a larger hard drive with that would be expensive in and of itself), there's not much reason to upgrade. Not yet anyways. Maybe when there are dozens and dozens of 400 MB arcade games.

100% agreement here. I've always wondered why everyone's been getting so excited about a 120GB HDD. The 20GB HDD seems more than adequate for (what I imagine is) normal usage. The only things that really take up alot of space on the HDD are game demos, which I assume people delete after a while cause either the game sucks or you've bought the full version.

Personally, I can't see myself running out of space in the near future.

[Blaze Lord]

Yeah. I mean, my drive's full, but there are always demos I can delete when needed. As I said, maybe when big arcade titles come out and start to multiply.

[blearkitten]

well my standard HD has ben showing 13Gb free for time eternal, so im not worried (but I WILL have to buy the bigger one...simply because it's there lol)

[Crimepunisher]

Might be best for Microsoft to introduce a couple different-sized drives at the same time. Maybe a 40 or 60 gig drive and then a 120, make things easier on everyone:

Casual gamers can stick to the 20 gigs
The all-around gamers can hit the 40 or 60
The guys there for movies, games, demos, and videos can take a 120.

Not restricted to buying whichever one your type is more suited to, of course, but I'm less worried about the price of a new hard drive is they had a 40 or 60 gig around.

[blearkitten]

im envisaging some kind of package maybe, along with the IPTV service when it launches (which I assume wont be free considering the number of "premium" tv channels out there)

[Blaze Lord]

I think you're a little confused about what IPTV is... Microsoft isn't really launching the service.

[blearkitten]

no...i know, they are just providing a means to access it - and i would imagine with MS branding - what i meant was some form of pre-paid access to premium content along with a BIG hard drive - sorry, sometimes what im thinking and what i type are 2 entirely different things, it's old age lol

[Blaze Lord]

And, they're kinda doing it from both ends. The content providers, like cable companies, are actually customers of Microsoft, since MS is helping them do infrastructure/networking/software for IPTV. And then on the other end, MS is supplying us with a set-top box in the form of the 360.

[blearkitten]

and what a fine set top box it is too lol - see, i can manage a sentence without my advancing years and old brain interfereing sometimes, generally only on smaller sentences though :)

[fincheyboy]

Sounds cool. Although yeah now i can see myself shelling out coz my hard drive is full:(

[Blaze Lord]

What's it filled with?

[fincheyboy]

Well not anymore yay.....My bro had put a load of crappy music on him...DAMN HIM TO HELL!!!..... but yeah its back on like 12 now i think he had downloaded a load of dems to his account as well as some videos i just deleted his profile:P