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Forums - Microsoft - 360 Arcade SKU comes with 5 game... demos? Hang on, what???

kn on 16 October 2007
mrstickball said:
.....Because the disk comes with 5 full arcade titles and 5 game demos?

 I dunno, man... I love my 360 and all and I want the 360 to be successful in the long run, but I'm reading the little paragraph on the left side under the pictures and it talks about the 5 games that are pictured on the box...  I thought the same thing... These 5 games are included as full games and there are 5 more trials in the box, but that little paragraph has me wondering if, in fact, they are just including demos in the box.



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BenKenobi88 on 16 October 2007

I assumed you got the 5 full games PLUS 5 trials...

Either way, it's the cheapo SKU, you get what you pay for...



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ssj12 on 16 October 2007
kn said:
To those that misunderstand the xbox 360 hard drive: It is simple:

To have backward compatibility on the 360, you MUST have a hard drive because emulators are downloaded. If you are just going to play games on it and not use all the interactive content, the arcade with a memory card will suffice and a hard drive is not a must.

With Sony saying BC is now a luxury, it exonerates the core *to some degree* since that is one of the big reasons to have the hard drive -- that and demos, of course. XBLA is fun, too, and will work fine with memory cards because the game size limit is 50 megabytes...




 I thought that was increased to 250MBs



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Apostrovich on 16 October 2007

Yeah, you can't download Symphony of the Night onto it because it's way too big, so you can't play it on the Core. No such problem on the PS3, which also has it on the PSN.

EDIT---Or, for the PS3, even if you don't want to download it, you could buy the original if you can find it on the cheap, because the 40 gig SKU will still play PS1 games. 



                                   

mrstickball on 16 October 2007

Ummm.

The core comes with a 256mb memory card.
Symphony of the Night on XBLA is under half of that.

Therefore you can still download it and Puzzle Quest (which ISNT on PSN), and have room for saves.



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mrstickball on 16 October 2007

Ummm.

The core comes with a 256mb memory card.
Symphony of the Night on XBLA is under half of that.

Therefore you can still download it and Puzzle Quest (which ISNT on PSN), and have room for saves.



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Apostrovich on 16 October 2007

Well, I stand corrected, but it couldn't have been more than a month or two ago that I heard that the people who wanted to play SOTN on their non-hard-drive-equipped 360 got shafted because it didn't have enough memory to hold the game. Heard that right when SOTN came out for XBL...

EDIT---Here's some news that backs it a little. 

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3161903

And the only memory card I can find for the 360 is this one....

http://www.gamestop.com/search.asp?N=133+117 



                                   

mrstickball on 16 October 2007

The old mem cards were 64mb.

New ones are 256 and 512mb.



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Apostrovich on 16 October 2007

lol here we are....

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/512mb-xbox-360-memory-cards-up-for-preorder-232980.php

Also that means that if you bought a Core and a 20 dollar memory card, the card could be empty, and you would have to pay 60 dollars between the game and the new memory card.  



                                   

SamuelRSmith on 16 October 2007

It's a brilliant price for the 360, I give it that.

And, honestly, does it matter whether it comes bundled with a game or not? I'd rather have no game then by burdened with Rockstars Table Tennis, like many people were.

Besides, if this model doesn't sell because of it's lack of bundled games, most stores would whack a game in at reduced price anyways.

What I dislike is the need for a HDD to play on Live, I mean log on details shouldn't really be more than a couple of mb? Should it?