I hate their accessories. All of them are expensive as hell.

yes.

Any hard drive that is not exactly as microsoft sells it to you will lock you out. and you will not be able to access any more of your data.

Basically what this is is another push by microsoft to force more money out of the people who will spend it.

Doesn't affect me, but it I modded my HDD and put a larger 2.5" into it, updated and then found out I couldn't use any of my stuff anymore I would be pissed. Their accessories are very overpriced to begin with.

@Dsister

Something like this is not a good thing. Now that you can only use their stuff and nobody elses, it allows them to charge as high of a price as they wish and you can't do anything about it.

It was a lot cheaper to open your HDD up, remove the 2.5'' drive and insert a 120GB purchased for $60 from Newegg. Much better than paying the $150 MS charges. That is $90 saved.

Well , as soon as you get a 360...you can then whine about paying for M$ authorized products, but unless you have one, you're basically making noise and overcrowding the site with junk post, imho ofcourse.

^^
Why pay M$ and whine when you can buy something else and gleefully laugh at people soaked by MS?
It's quite obvious that who hasn't a 360 isn't whining, but simply warning people to think twice before trusting good ol' sweaty Ballmer.

That's great, nice to know Ms is cracking down.

What makes you think that everyone complaining doesn't have a 360? It could very well be 360 owners complaining because MS completely takes choice away from their consumers, forcing them to have zero options other than being forced to pay whatever MS wishes for them to pay.

For example, if MS decides tomorrow that 120GB HDD costs $200 and they only have the 120 on the market, then you wish to upgrade your HDD, you have no choice but to shell out $200 in order to upgrade instead of spending only $60.

This post isn't junk or noise, it is informing the community which already went this route that they are now completely screwed the moment they upgrade. All their saved data, downloaded games, demos, etc... are unless, and in order to use them again they need to buy a MS proprietary drive, which is nothing more than standard 2.5'' HDD with a custom casing for $99-150 in order to use them again.

Alby_da_Wolf said: ^^ Why pay M$ and whine when you can buy something else and gleefully laugh at people soaked by MS? It's quite obvious that who hasn't a 360 isn't whining, but simply warning people to think twice before trusting good ol' sweaty Ballmer.

No, it's call whining...who make you, or anybody else the consumer protection agency?  Please, spare me the nonsense, it's captialism, you don't want it, take a freaking hike...but when somebody DOESN'T own a 360, but complians about XBL fee or accessories...that's just stupid.  Let me worry about how I spend my money, and you worry about yours...thank you very much.

when i first read the title i thought its about Crackdown 2.

Makes me glad I went with a PS3. Any 2.5" hard drive I want, BAM it's in there. Got a 500 GB for $125 in mine right now. MS 120 GB costs $149.99 SRP. That's more than a dollar a GB, which is just unexceptable. It's just redicilous when you compare the two consoles freedoms. MS basically wants you to get EVERYTHING from them so they make money off of it, overpricing most of their products, too. While with Sony you can use just about anything you want. Just about any HDD, Bluetooth headset, or camera, without once demanding you buy their products to upgrade your experience.

I just wish fanboys would open their eyes and realize that MS is just milking the mindless zealots for everything they can get, just because they know they can. Stop defending them like they are your loving mother when ALL these negative points are brought up against them.