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errorpwns on 14 September 2012
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crissindahouse said:
errorpwns said:
crissindahouse said:
 

you can buy a new 250gb hdd for 360 for $50 or 320gb for $58, just as info, no clue where some people buy their stuff to pay the same for a used product with half the space...

but i also like if you can use every hdd, it's still cheaper then but i still think there should be one console with at least 250gb or so, not so beautiful to have a hdd on your console in your living room which will be needed for me.


It is, you can hide the HDD wherever you want.  And if you're that crazy about looks just buy an SSD or a laptop sized drive and hide it behind the console.  If you get a decent looking enclosure I don't see the darn problem.  You people just want to find every little thing to knit pick don't you.  60 dollars is the cheapest I can find a new 250 xbox HDD.  Which is still overpriced.  Seeing as I can find a new 500gb HDD for that price.  The HDD in the Wii-U isn't probably a physical drive even.  It's a nand flash chip I'm guessing.  Which means it's a lot faster than a physical HDD.  To put 250GB of flash memory inside the Wii-U it would jack the price of the console up by at least 100 dollars.  And that 100 dollars is factoring in bulk prices. Since a 250GB ssd on the consumer level is 170 at the cheapest. 

"nitpicking" said the guy from the the last of us pax demo thread searching for every small thing which wasn't perfect...

and no, i don't try to do that, i just want to buy a wii u and i would prefer one with a hdd in the console even if i would have to pay 50 bucks more for a 250gb hdd console or so instead of hiding a hdd anywhere behind anything. and i wouldn't need  flash memory for that. i would be totally fine to get what i already have in two other consoles and my hdd i will have to use now for the wii u is also no flash memory so why do you think the 250gb drive had to be one then?

and that's obviously only what i would prefer and would like to see, not what i say nintendo should have done for everyone, for me it would be better, maybe for most it wouldn't.

btw it still stands that i can buy a 250gb new for 50 bucks (just check amazon as example, 50 for 250gb and 58 for 320gb) or even less for the 360 and don't have to buy a 120gb refurbished for that price. that's what you said to compare it with "120gb sata for 20 bucks" and there is a little difference between 120gb refurbished for 50 bucks or 250gb new for 50 bucks. it's still more expensive like i already said but that makes it double the gb for the same price and new instead of refurbished, i would say that makes at least 50% difference to what you said first^^

and i didn't want to make more out of it as it reall yis, i just wanted to say that you can get it way cheaper as you said and that i would prefer a hdd, not more and it was nothing against nintendo or whatever.


I can get a 1tb drive for 70 dollars. A 320gb new xbox drive is around 60 dollars.  How is that not insanely overpriced?  I paid 50 for my 750GB desktop drive a year ago and 50 for my 500gb 2 years ago.  So you're saying I should have to pay the same price for half th espace?  Also the 250gb in the Wii-U would have to be nand due to the way the console was designed.  There is no place for a physical drive.  That's why.