28
Mar
Posted by Gibran Nawaz as Hardware, Xbox360

Here is some information via a Japanese press release regarding the Xbox 360 120GB hard disk drive to be released with the Elite. It turns out you can’t do a lot of things with it, and there are quite a few setbacks.
- You can only move data from the 20GB Hard Disk to the 120 GB Hard Disk. Transferring data in the other direction, or any other combination, is not possible.
- Any data stored on the 120 GB hard disk will be automatically deleted.
- Any data stored on the 20 GB hard disk will be automatically deleted after it is moved over.
- You cannot put the data from two or more 20 GB hard disks onto one 120 GB hard disk. If you attempt to move multiple drives, only the last one you move will be stored.
- Once you move the data over, it cannot be placed back on the original hard disk.
Microsoft had originally advised 360 owners to buy two 20GB hard drives to fit all of the available content. It turns out that you can’t put data from both drives into the new 120GB, so this pretty much means a lot of angry gamers.
Read (WIRED)
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4 Responses
ZaVaZ
March 28th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
1$ure, Micro$oft want$ you to get 2 Hard Drive$. I don’t $ee What$ the point (Unle$$ you like $penting money on game upgrade$ that $hould have been in the Collecter$ edt. from the $tart). Al$o Micro$oft want$ you to u$e all the point$ you can $o that they get rich… errr I mean $o that you have the be$t gaming experience po$$ible.
tidles
March 28th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
2Dude… drug$ are bad…
This story is going no where… who cares about the old 20 meg unit, when you have a new 120… transfer the 20 and ebay it… end of story… jeez.
ZaVaZ
March 28th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
3The article tells you that Microsoft asks gamers to buy a second hard drive, and you are only allowed to transfer content from one of the drives not both. Well if people bough another 20gig drive to store all the extra data, game add-ons, themes, and music What happens to all that data? All those game add-on cost gamers money. Now the gamers have to throw all that money away. To me thats LAME.
Also My other point was that, gamers are spending more money on these game “Add-ons”. Gamers spent $10 more for the collectors Edition. They do it for more content then the regular version. But when they XBL their game they found that they now must spend more money to get what they should have gottin in the first place. Well they don’t have to. But some really cool features are there for download the same day as the release of the game. I’m for episodic content but not like this.
And third, I don’t take drugs or drug$… I was showing (protesting if you will) to people that Microsoft is always about the money. Now I don’t know if you have to re-buy something that I deleted like an XBLA game or game pics/ themes. Or if XBL keeps track of what you bought and allows you to re-download them for free. But thats 20gigs of re-fishing for lost data and game saves thats now gone. Some games are tough and require weeks of game play to get to the end, get some unlocks, or extra game modes. They should rethink this HDD issue.
Anuban
March 29th, 2007 at 10:02 am
4That really does suck … MS should really have worked on the issue a little more given that they were pushing those overpriced 20 Gig HDs down our throats and now some people are just plain Screwed. Tell me that doesn’t suck and that MS is just flat out wrong for doing things this way.
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