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ArnoldRimmer on 30 March 2010
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selnor said:
weaponx3 said:
why would they have no internal hd? A usb drive would be a lot slower...look how much they charge for their hdd...the extenal ones would be even more from MS unless your using your own..so they add natal and lose the external hd? Bad move...i don't see them giving you an external harddrive with paying for it separate and if that's the case....i can see them only using an offiical ext MS to get more then 30 gb limit..like kingofwale said...they should put the brick as part of the system and also wifi...but I don't see them doing wifi since they sell it separately...i would be interested in getting a slim but if there's no internal hd...they can kiss my ass


Internal HDD would not be needed. Releae the slim with a 60gb USB flash memory solves any new adopters issues. Also M$ have already confirmed that any make will work with the 360. If they lifted the 30gb limit with the slim, I would use my 420gb HDD USB I have. And no speed is not an issue. The existing 360 HDD is not actually internal. It has a connection which is the same speed as the 360's USB speed.

Flash memory is still way to expensive if you want more than a handful of Gigabytes. The Xbox 360 memory units are pretty much just modified USB flash memory stick, and look at the prices: The 512MB memory unit costs 45 Euros (=60 USD) at the cheapest online shop in my country.

And you are talking a memory stick that has 120 times the capacity. I just checked a price comparison website for 64GB USB flash memory sticks, and the cheapest one costs 120 Euros (161 USD) at the cheapest store. So if Microsoft sold it for the Xbox 360, it would probably be around 5000 Euros. ;)

But seriously, a slim Xbox 360 without a hard disc is simply no option. I'm sure the Xbox 360 slim will have an internal hard disc, and the old 360 hard disk drives will be incompatible with the slim model. Maybe the slim XBox 360 will take standard 2,5" SATA hard disks just like the PS3. But I personally doubt that, the fact that you cannot use standard hard disks with the 360 make Microsoft huge profits. I think they will release hard disk drives with a new form factor for the slim model.