Question Xbox360 with minimal HD?

[rynnor]

If I purely wish to use the Xbox 360 to play games (not downloaded content) is the HD size going to effect me?

 

[Moriath]

seems that the 4gb non hdd version will effect you .... as you cant multiplayer the new halo

other than that no it wont matter apart from the number of patches you can download but i never capped my 20gb one with that

 

[Will]

Its nice to have enough room to install a game. When playing from HDD, the 360 becomes relatively quiet.

 

[rynnor]

Think I'll end up getting the 250Gb one in the end - not a massive price difference from the 4Gb.

Still plenty of places trying to shift the old consoles at ridiculous prices too I see

 

[Bym]

Think I'll end up getting the 250Gb one in the end - not a massive price difference from the 4Gb.

Still plenty of places trying to shift the old consoles at ridiculous prices too I see

Yeh, noticed that when I was going to buy my little boys one for xmas! Giving them my Wii instead...

Agree that's it's worth getting the larger one to run games from, plus you never know, maybe you'll want to DL something in future?

 

[Sparx]

you do know you can use these as Hard drives right?

SanDisk Cruzer Blade USB flash drive - 16 GB

 

[rynnor]

you do know you can use these as Hard drives right?

SanDisk Cruzer Blade USB flash drive - 16 GB

Do those work with the latest version of xbox console though?

 

[Sparx]

Same firmware so i dont see why not

 

[Ch3tan]

I thought there was a specific update that stopped people using non MS branded hardware as hardrives now?

edit:// Here you go, it appears you can use a usb drive for up to 16gb max. On April 6th, we will be releasing a system update over Xbox LIVE for your Xbox 360 that will allow USB flash drives to be used for storing profiles, game saves, demos and more. I’ve been testing this feature out for a few weeks, and I have to say it’s really great. Once you take the system update on April 6th, you’ll be able to connect your USB flash drives to your console and head over to the memory section to configure your new storage device. Once you do that, the system will conduct a one time performance and integrity check to confirm the drive is working properly. You will then be able to configure how much storage to use on the device, up to 16 GB. The remaining space on the flash drive will be accessible by your PC or Mac. USB Hard drives may work, but like flash memory, you’ll only be able to use up to 16GB of space. Since performance on flash based USB storage is usually better, I highly recommend using flash based instead of spinning media like a hard drive…it’s just going to give you a MUCH better experience.

 

[Madmaxx]

I have an Xbox with the smallest HD space and it's fine for gaming, I deleted the crappy welcome video and free game trials and that free'd up more that 3-4gb. But it is nice to have your games installed like Will said, once my Xbox finally kicks the bucket I would probably get one with more space on just to install all my games.