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- ZackAttack007, on 06/01/2009, -13/+229I'll never buy a full game this way.
I can save money by getting a used physical copy and then recoup some of the money by selling it when I am finished.
The downloadable version would have to be much cheaper for me to consider it. - AshamedAmerican, on 06/01/2009, -1/+141We're gonna need a bigger hard drive.
- Spire3660, on 06/01/2009, -0/+129Does anyone else think its odd that the Wifi dongle for Xbox is STILL HALF THE COST OF A COMPLETE ARCADE UNIT?
- mark076h, on 06/01/2009, -9/+103RIP Gamestop
- kewl4eva, on 06/01/2009, -9/+90Awesome stuff !!!!!!!
Kudos to Microsoft for that.... - Memnochxx, on 06/01/2009, -2/+82I'm not paying $150 for 120 GB no matter what they offer me.
- mywhitenoise, on 06/01/2009, -3/+71yes, Rest...IN PAIN!
- akatsuki, on 06/01/2009, -4/+66This is all about killing the used game market.
- felman87, on 06/01/2009, -3/+59Also, HDD space is expensive on the 360. This works with steam cause I can buy my own cheap HDD for pennies but on the 360 it's rape.
- undercoverDrunk, on 06/02/2009, -1/+40Great idea!
Here is another- STOP ***** US ON THE HARD DRIVES! - digitaldivinci, on 06/01/2009, -4/+40Now if they would make it easier to transfer your stuff to a new hard drive, I'd be in for a 120gb.
- garble7, on 06/01/2009, -5/+33Who thinks this will ONLY be for the US, and the rest of the world gets shafted. Like Netflix on the XBOX360.
It would only be smart to allow the entire world to do this. But for some reason I have this nagging feeling it won't be done. - sinurgy, on 06/01/2009, -0/+27I absolutely would but only if it's noticeably cheaper. I don't need it to be %50 off but if I'm only saving $5-$10 I might as well get the hard copy.
- ZombieSociety, on 06/01/2009, -2/+29Call me old-fashioned, but I want the case and manual when I buy a game, and, also, I like to not buy superfluous hard drives.
- kmg90, on 06/01/2009, -4/+30way to go Microsoft you found another way to rape your consumers with your ridiculously priced hard drives!
$150 for 120GB? are you ***** me?
I can get a 1TB drive from newegg for that price! - Red989, on 06/01/2009, -7/+28I completely agree. I'm not sure if the bandwith costs for MS to do this will match the cost of the production of the boxed versions, but I wouldn't think it would be as much.
- neFariou5, on 06/01/2009, -2/+22Yeah, you download 50GB games...
After your ISP's monthly bandwidth cap kicks in and after the day or two it'll take to download one game, see if you feel the same way when it comes to downloading the Blu-ray movies. - MaynardJK, on 06/02/2009, -0/+19@bluestatic
Then they have to ship it to the store. Then the store marks it up. Digital should always be cheaper. - Paulish, on 06/02/2009, -1/+19I ***** hate Microsofts point system. It is perfectly planned out so you spend more money than you need to. Need that downloadable content? Well, that will cost 150 gamer points. Say what? We only have a 120 and 500 point tier? Well, I guess you know what one you need.
I was off with the point amounts, but you get the idea. - SteveThePlank, on 06/01/2009, -1/+18The hard drive I got when I bought the 360 at release would never be able to fit full games on, amongst all the other ***** on there. :(
- Hetman, on 06/01/2009, -0/+17It should be cheaper anyways. They do not have to pay for packaging it and for the physical material they make disks out of.
- Magorien, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1720gb? Are you joking?
Last time I checked a dual layer DVD can't hold more than 8gbs. Most 360 games aren't even that large.
Judging from their PC counterparts they average out around 5 or 6. Even with a connection like yours thats maybe 5 or 6 hours. - kinseyincanada, on 06/01/2009, -1/+18and hello to DRM and not being able to re-sell anything you own. I dont want to rent my products.
- jacksons98, on 06/01/2009, -4/+21Too problems I see with this, Ridiculously overpriced proprietary harddrive on X360 will limit the use of this feature and if it's like PS3 which already offers full games for download, you'll find most of the time it works out cheaper to buy retail because you can usually find it on sale.
- liquisoft, on 06/01/2009, -0/+17The 20GB hard drive that comes (or came) in the standard 360 is insignificant. I hardly have anything on mine, but did "install" GTAIV along with a few downloadable content packs, and I have less than 1GB left. To get a 60GB new hard drive, I'd have to spent $100, which doesn't equate to the reality of the hard drive market. For means of comparison, I can get an internal hard drive with 640GB of space for $60.
It's all just not right. I think I'll be sticking to physical media for now. - Lammin, on 06/01/2009, -0/+16When you send your xbox back for repair you dont send the hard drive.
- leland1, on 06/01/2009, -0/+16Tons of new content stored on the 120GB hard drive... downloadable games, media, etc..., will soon require the need to expand the capacity of the 120GB hard drive to 500GB or even 1TB. Lots of mouthwatering content, so little storage space.
Microsoft should look into increasing hard drive capacity at a more reasonable price. Maybe an external USB hard drive? - RoboJesus, on 06/02/2009, -0/+15Until the ISPs institute bandwidth caps! Dun dun dun
- PanicAK, on 06/02/2009, -2/+17"With pricing to match retail"
What a crock of *****. - unitedkronos, on 06/01/2009, -0/+13I doubt this will be US exclusive at all, and if it is, it won't be for long. PS3 owners have been able to buy full retail games for quite a while, though honestly there aren't many to choose from.
- Secretion, on 06/02/2009, -0/+13If it did you can recover your gamertag on another XBOX and go to your download history where you can download your purchases again (for free).
- ScottoGato, on 06/01/2009, -1/+13You can pay that, or get yourself a wireless LAN extender. I got mine for $35.
- inactive, on 06/02/2009, -0/+12Not even close. Bandwidth is fractions of pennies per GB on this scale. Physical copies cost a few dollars to produce and distribute.
- Hetman, on 06/01/2009, -0/+12I agree. But I mean a lot of material goes into a phsyical copy of the game and the contianer. It seems like it would still be cheaper to do it digitally.
- mark076h, on 06/01/2009, -1/+13You said that?
- suntzusputnik, on 06/02/2009, -7/+18buying and selling games hurts the industry, as none of that money goes back to the developer. at least don't go through gamestop, supporting them is a crime.
bury me. - Memnochxx, on 06/01/2009, -0/+10I've still got the 20 gb and it's nearly full of dlc for my games. I'd really rather not delete game data, I can fit about 2 gigs worth of content on it (in addition to the dlc) right now, so that's a lot of deleting I have to do if I want to download new things. I'd like to get a bigger drive, but paying $100 for 60gb or $150 for 120gb is ridiculous.
- reiggin, on 06/02/2009, -0/+10Try $90 or less (if you really shop around) for 1TB.
- punkcat, on 06/02/2009, -0/+10would you like to buy a guide with that?
- inactive, on 06/02/2009, -2/+12"Microsoft should look into increasing hard drive capacity at a more reasonable price."
That would destroy their strategy of bilking you for unreasonable amounts of cash at every turn. Not gonna happen. - Dotcommer, on 06/01/2009, -1/+11Spire, to save yourself any more embarrassment, please stop talking about hard drives and other technology. You don't know what you're talking about.
- mrZango, on 06/01/2009, -0/+10this has been offered by PSN right?
- MrFisty, on 06/02/2009, -0/+10*Two
And yes, the 360 needs to realistically look at following the SATA drive standard offered by the PS3. Being able to upgrade to a HDD three times larger than the biggest 360 HDD for less than half the price is the way to go if they're serious about pushing consumers down the digi download road. - s73v3r, on 06/01/2009, -2/+12Hopefully it'll be linked with your Live account, so when your Xbox red-rings, you can easily re-download your games to a new Xbox.
- bladzalot, on 06/02/2009, -0/+10freakin awesome, except for the fact that they still have a 2004 harddrive. As a thirtysomething gamer with disposable income, why limit me to 120GB worth of paid for MS downloads. My 120GB drive has been full for the past year, and it slows your system immensely. Why are we still waiting for a freakin bigger drive when you can mail order a 500GB drive for $80 and put it in your PS3 WITH Sony's full support? Come on MS!!
- Memnochxx, on 06/01/2009, -0/+9That's not a problem anymore. They have a system online to transfer all your licenses to any other xbox, you can use this once every 6 months.
- openthewell, on 06/02/2009, -2/+11Apparently you guys haven't heard of Steam? lol, the few people they'll lose, they will gain hundreds more.
- Squirgle, on 06/02/2009, -0/+8@Radan. It's a standard laptop hardrive in that pretty container, so you can stick your own drive in. Unfortunately MS signs the drives, so the 360 won't recognise any non-overpriced HDD. Some young hacker types have managed to resign non-360 hard drives to work, but you're still limited to the 20gb, 60gb or 120gb signatures.
- jihadjohnson, on 06/02/2009, -2/+10Why is this 'big' steam has had it for ages
- Memnochxx, on 06/01/2009, -0/+8They already sell whole xbox games and offer hd downloads and streaming. I think they've got the bandwidth, it costs next to nothing.
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