Larger Xbox 360 Hard Drive
Information came out yesterday that Microsoft is releasing a new 512 MB Memory card for $50 and lowering the price of the 64 MB Memory Card from $40 to $30. You can read the full details here. In the process they are increasing the 50 MB limit for Xbox Live Arcade games to 150 MB. I have no complaint with them releasing a larger memory card, but I’m curious who actually uses a memory card. I know at least a dozen people with Xbox 360s and none of them have a memory card. Everyone I know has the premium package that came with the hard drive. Even if someone didn’t have the premium system the 20 GB hard drive for $100 is a much better value than $50 for 1/2 a GB. For the extra $50 you get 20 times more storage.
This news lead me to my rant. Where is the 100 GB, or preferable 200 GB, hard drive? The ability to download high def shows or movies to my Xbox 360 is a great option, but the 20 GB hard drive only holds a handful of shows or a couple movies. I want to be able to download a weekends worth of movies during the week and then spend all weekend watching them. Instead I can download two. It is not like larger hard drives are hard to find. There are tons of different 100 GB drives on the market that could easily be adapted for the Xbox 360. I can buy a 100 GB hard drive for my laptop for $75 without spending any time shopping around. I have trouble believing that Microsoft can’t put that in the casing for use with an Xbox 360 for 10 bucks and then sell it for $100. Charging $100 for a 20 GB hard drive is ridiculous.
Microsoft you get so many things right about the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live. Why can’t you figure out how to get a decent amount of storage for it?
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