Microsoft Make Your OVERPRICED Hard Drives Cheaper!

Space is a problem for many 360 owners with a 20 gb hard drive with xbox live. You really only get to use 13 gigs of the 20 they say you get. Im already down to 5 gigs and ive had my 360 for a few months over a year. I deleted all my demos btw. I don't have any movies or installed games on there. But even just addons and rock band songs really add up in space. Even a 60 gig hd would be good, but thats way overpriced at 90 bucks! and 150 bucks for 120 gigs? They need to lower the price of these. They might even make more money off arcade games (The reason I;m not buying shadow complez is because it takes nearly a gig of space)

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Space is a problem for many 360 owners with a 20 gb hard drive with xbox live. You really only get to use 13 gigs of the 20 they say you get. Im already down to 5 gigs and ive had my 360 for a few months over a year. I deleted all my demos btw. I don't have any movies or installed games on there. But even just addons and rock band songs really add up in space. Even a 60 gig hd would be good, but thats way overpriced at 90 bucks! and 150 bucks for 120 gigs? They need to lower the price of these. They might even make more money off arcade games (The reason I;m not buying shadow complez is because it takes nearly a gig of space)

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Justinge3

ebay

YEAH! Everytime I've seen someone complain about Microsoft products on GAMESPOT, that always turns out to be more effective than complaining about it on Xbox.com.

I LOL at Ms for selling 120Gb hdds for So much money, I could get 500Gb for the same amount :|

its pretty bad, a 750gb 2.5" hdd is 150$.

Proprietary parts are always going to be more expensive. It's silly, but if you want it, you have to pay for it.

YEAH! Everytime I've seen someone complain about Microsoft products on GAMESPOT, that always turns out to be more effective than complaining about it on Xbox.com.

heretrix

ebay

vaderhater

This!

I felt your pain 20Gb owners, but I bought a 120Gb off ebay for £50 (free delivery)about a month ago.

ya microsoft needs to i have 3 360s and 1 hard drive im sick of sharing them between units , just sick of it , in my opinion each xbox 360 should have came with one ,, manditory and still be detachable in case somthing went wrong then wed go buy one if that or it gets full happens ,

and theres should have been only one sku for 299,99 at launch and now 199,99

It is so foul. The 360 needs space...and they basically rob you. I had my 360 for a while and I did okay with just having arcade games and stuff. As soon as you could DL games to the hard drive I was strapped for space....bigtime. I went to gamestop and bought a new hard drive and I just felt like I was getting took for my money. All I could think about was how many games I could get with that money. I went home....no new game....just a brick to download game. Wow...I'm still salty about it.

[QUOTE="vaderhater"]

ebay

This!

I felt your pain 20Gb owners, but I bought a 120Gb off ebay for £50 (free delivery)about a month ago.

[QUOTE="heretrix"]

YEAH! Everytime I've seen someone complain about Microsoft products on GAMESPOT, that always turns out to be more effective than complaining about it on Xbox.com.

kolkov01

Not really. Complaining on Xbox.com at least gives you some chance of having it seen by Xbox executives who make decisions. Complaining here is pointless and silly.

[QUOTE="kolkov01"][QUOTE="heretrix"]

YEAH! Everytime I've seen someone complain about Microsoft products on GAMESPOT, that always turns out to be more effective than complaining about it on Xbox.com.

OneLazyAsian

Not really. Complaining on Xbox.com at least gives you some chance of having it seen by Xbox executives who make decisions. Complaining here is pointless and silly.

Who cares about HDD space?

MS should be taking the money they make from overpriced add ons and Live fees and hire some super talented first party devs, and create some super inhouse engines.

Instead, we'll get another Halo

[QUOTE="OneLazyAsian"]

[QUOTE="kolkov01"] the impact of posting it here or on xbox.com is pretty much the samekolkov01

Not really. Complaining on Xbox.com at least gives you some chance of having it seen by Xbox executives who make decisions. Complaining here is pointless and silly.

Still, a slight chance is better than no chance at all.

Try not complaining on a forum that Microsoft will never ever read.siLVURcross

Yeah i also only have a 20gb and want more space. Ill nto however waste $150 on a 120gb when i can get a new console 2 games,a wireless controller, a new 3 year warranty(mines up december but my current one didnt really need it lol) and 120 gb hd for $300. So im getting that instead

[QUOTE="kolkov01"][QUOTE="OneLazyAsian"]

Not really. Complaining on Xbox.com at least gives you some chance of having it seen by Xbox executives who make decisions. Complaining here is pointless and silly.

OneLazyAsian

Still, a slight chance is better than no chance at all.

[QUOTE="OneLazyAsian"]

[QUOTE="kolkov01"] which why I said "pretty much the same", the odds of them noticing and/or caring/remembering are most likely astronomicalkolkov01

Still, a slight chance is better than no chance at all.

There is no sympathy in SW. There are only victors and casualties.

[QUOTE="kolkov01"][QUOTE="OneLazyAsian"]

Still, a slight chance is better than no chance at all.

OneLazyAsian

There is no sympathy in SW. There are only winners and casualties.

Proprietary parts are always going to be more expensive. It's silly, but if you want it, you have to pay for it.

lundy86_4

I've contemplated getting a modified hard drive, but things like that always seem a bit fishy. Think I'll probably end up getting a used hard drive at some point. You hear that Microsoft? No moneys for you!

I LOL at Ms for selling 120Gb hdds for So much money, I could get 500Gb for the same amount :|

Punjabiking101

I LOL at Ms for selling 120Gb hdds for So much money, I could get 500Gb for the same amount :|

Punjabiking101

Who cares about HDD space?

Stats_

Uh, people who need more HDD space maybe?

[QUOTE="Punjabiking101"]

I LOL at Ms for selling 120Gb hdds for So much money, I could get 500Gb for the same amount :|

rogelio22

I LOL at Ms for selling 120Gb hdds for So much money, I could get 500Gb for the same amount :|

Punjabiking101

its funny you can get a seagate 1 TB for 120 dollars

They are a big corporation, and with most big coporations, they are greedy and will price it at w/e they want. You HAVE to buy their brand, right? There's no other way around it.

[QUOTE="rogelio22"][QUOTE="Punjabiking101"] [QUOTE="Punjabiking101"]

I LOL at Ms for selling 120Gb hdds for So much money, I could get 500Gb for the same amount :|

InsaneBasura

[QUOTE="lundy86_4"]

Proprietary parts are always going to be more expensive. It's silly, but if you want it, you have to pay for it.

InsaneBasura

I've contemplated getting a modified hard drive, but things like that always seem a bit fishy. Think I'll probably end up getting a used hard drive at some point. You hear that Microsoft? No moneys for you!

Yeah, it's absolutely crazy, but it's why they did it. You can't easily get an adaptable hard drive, so there free to charge what they want.

Proprietary parts are always going to be more expensive. It's silly, but if you want it, you have to pay for it.

lundy86_4

Yeah but there's always a cheaper alternative. In this case, the 20 gb harddrive in most stores in the US is anywhere around $50-$60 but on ebay you could get one straight from the manufacturers in China for around $30. Either way Microsoft really needs to drop the price on these things...

[QUOTE="lundy86_4"]

Proprietary parts are always going to be more expensive. It's silly, but if you want it, you have to pay for it.

CyberRuler

Yeah but there's always a cheaper alternative. In this case, the 20 gb harddrive in most stores in the US is anywhere around $50-$60 but on ebay you could get one straight from the manufacturers in China for around $30. Either way Microsoft really needs to drop the price on these things...

Yeah, you can usually find cheaper alternatives. The 360 HDD tries to limit the amount of alternatives, however people are resourceful.

Who cares about HDD space?

MS should be taking the money they make from overpriced add ons and Live fees and hire some super talented first party devs, and create some super inhouse engines.

Instead, we'll get another Halo

Stats_

[QUOTE="Stats_"]

Who cares about HDD space?

MS should be taking the money they make from overpriced add ons and Live fees and hire some super talented first party devs, and create some super inhouse engines.

Instead, we'll get another Halo

Cicatraz_ESP

And isn't it bad?

The HD is clearly overpriced for a crappy 4200 rpm, sata 1, 120gb fujitsu hd.

And yes I agree with that dude, another halo come on, I'm sick of it, with more than 50 games my 360 sits inside it's box on corner of my room. See the picture on my album if you don't believe it !!

I LOL at Ms for selling 120Gb hdds for So much money, I could get 500Gb for the same amount :|

Punjabiking101

Clearly MS could care less about the fact that they are ripping everybody off on the hard drives, just gotta get over it. I got me a 60GB HD for $60 & now I'm set for the rest of this gen on my 360.

[QUOTE="lundy86_4"]

Proprietary parts are always going to be more expensive. It's silly, but if you want it, you have to pay for it.

CyberRuler

Yeah but there's always a cheaper alternative. In this case, the 20 gb harddrive in most stores in the US is anywhere around $50-$60 but on ebay you could get one straight from the manufacturers in China for around $30. Either way Microsoft really needs to drop the price on these things...