PlayStation 4 Developers Have Access to 7 GB RAM (Rumor)

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SvennoJ said:

The 360 did have some bad drives at the start. I still have a 20gb phat relic, one of the first ones with HDMI. That dvd drive is bad. I would never want to watch a dvd on that thing. (My HD-DVD drive is silent though, plays dvds too)

Early on, Microsoft had a "special" where they sold refurbished 20Gb drives for $20, so going by that, they must have had high failure rates on the 20Gb hard drives, ended up buying one for my Xbox 360 Core machine which is incredibly old now, but works fine.

As for playing back video, PC is your friend, let the PC transcode it and send it to the Xbox 360, it's a good way to run Bluray through the Xbox too, plus you get around the noisy optical drive. :)