If there is a 360 slim, will the current hard-drive fit it?

[Squilliam]

Procrastinato said:
You guys are nuts with this whole "what do I do to upgrade, when a slim is released??" thing.





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What makes you think MS wants to burn money by selling you a new console, probably with a built-in HDD and at a loss, to replace your current 360? That's not gonna increase their software/accessory sales, and hence profit, now is it?

It will make NPD and their own sharehold reports look good in terms of unit sales. It will make the console look even more successful to people in the shops. It will reduce their legacy exposure to RROD repairs and it will make available cheap Xbox 360s for people who would otherwise not have one as people give away/sell their older units. As for profit, well its up in the air as given the fact we don't know what they will charge or how much it will cost to make one.

If there's a 360 slim, there won't be any connecting old HDDs to it. It'll have one built-in, and transferring data will NOT be an option. You think MS is gonna foot the bill for your electronics habit, when you're not gonna buy any more profitable items than you would have otherwise?

Microsoft already lets people transfer games/DLC into new machines so I don't see how they wouldn't have provisions for this in the terms agreed to by developers and publishers who sell content on Xbox Live.

[quote]On top of that, they definately aren't going to let you transfer XBLA licenses or savegames -- you can play a 360 without hooking it up to the internet, you know, so there'd be nothing stopping you from copying a whole slew of games to the old HDD for a pal, and letting him have it, thereby screwing MS out of even more money. There will be NO upgrade path. None[quote]

Xbox Live Arcade games are registered to one account and one Xbox 360 so thats not a problem. Theres talk that they will allow people to put their saves online with the next update so if that happens it will be a moot point anyway.