Oh NO... New 360 Propietary HDD

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CDiablo on 14 June 2010

I dont think anyone needs more than 100 gigs so its no biggie.

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Fab_GS on 14 June 2010

Mistershine said:

Fab_GS said:

A Bad Clown said:

You guys do realize if you recover your gamertag all your data transfers, right? Or there's always the cable.....

Even savegames?

No.

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Scoobes on 14 June 2010

Hmmm... MS should really have thought of a method to connect current HDDs to the new redsigned console, or at least transfer all data relatively painlessly.

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mirgro on 14 June 2010

How much are we going to have to down for this proprietarydata transfer cable? $50?

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JaggedSac on 14 June 2010

$19.99 for the transfer cable. They say it in a video at Engadget.com.

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Xen on 14 June 2010

I don't see why anyone should be surprised, there's no reason at all as to why MS should revoke complete control of various accessories for their console...

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ZenfoldorVGI on 14 June 2010

BHR-3 said:

In a big announcement at E3 today we saw the new Xbox 360 Slim looking all shiny and black coming with wireless N, 250 Gb HDD and a much smaller case. It is available now for all those gamers looking for new hardware but in a look behind the scenes Aaron Greenberg showed how the HDD worked. The HDD on the new system is completely different than the previous iterations and is not a normal laptop HDD that can be easily removed via a bay in the back of the system. Aaron also showed the interface for the Kinect on the back of the system.

What does this mean for gamers? You will not be able to switch out your HDD easily and upgrade to a 1 Tb drive or bigger without buying it directly from Microsoft. The big HDD is cool but it is a bit of a shame that they went the propietary route and did not leave it as a normal laptop HDD like the Playstation 3.

We will be trying to get more specs and hands on with it shortly so stay tuned for more info.

http://dualshockers.com/2010/06/14/xbox-360-slim-propietary-hdd/

how will old 360 gamers tranfer copy protected games over if they buy the new one?

They'll do it with flash drives, because on the 360, unlike the PS3 or Wii, you can save and install games, saves, and profiles onto flash drives, and play them on any console you like, and you can also move them from on Xbox 360 HDD to another.

This has been common knowledge for a long long time.

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ZenfoldorVGI on 14 June 2010

Why buy a transfer cable when you can just a flash drive? I just restored a 120 gigger with a flash drive, took an hour, and was free. This is WHY MS unlocked flash drives. It is free, easy, and painless to restore your data. Nothing on there is gonna be bigger than 16gb, and as for your game installs, reinstall them ffs.....

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Mr Puggsly on 14 June 2010

Well now that the 360 supports USB memory units, I can live without the hard drive.

Most of us just use it for save data and XBLA titles anyhow. We can assume MS makes a a shit load of money if they are gonna continue this proprietary crap.

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