Xbox 360 250GB HDD not to be sold separately

Author: Joe Martin
Published: 17th September 2009
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Xbox 360 250GB HDD not to be sold separately

Microsoft's new 250GB hard drive for the Xbox 360 will only be sold in limited edition bundles, apparently.

Microsoft has quashed rumours that the new 250GB hard drive that will be available with some limited edition Xbox 360 bundles will also be sold separately.

The hard drive in question will be packaged with two limited edition bundles, one themed around Forza 3 and the other around Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Each bundle will come with a copy of the relevant game, a 250GB hard drive, two controllers, a headset and a specially decorated Xbox 360. Each bundle will cost you £250 GBP in the UK, but the Modern Warfare bundle is exclusive to GAME and GameStation in the UK. In the US each bundle will set you back $400 USD and should be available most places.

The hard drive will not be rolled out as a stand alone product however, according to comments made by Microsoft's Larry Hyrb in a short video. You can see the video itself over at ShackNews.

"This hard drive is not being sold separately," said Hyrb, being as clear as possible on the matter.

The bundles are set to go on sale on November 10th, with pre-order details set to be announced shortly. Let us know if you'll be picking one up in the forums.
Quote mikeuk2004 17th September 2009, 12:34
Would you really want to buy one? The 120GB was sold for £130 so this is bound to be £200 on its own.

I wish they would patch the 360 to accept any laptop drive and stop with this propriety rubbish.
Quote goldstar0011 17th September 2009, 12:42
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It'll be sold down the line, MS want people to buy and download to the 360, so unless they allow other HD's on it then they'll keep releasing bigger ones
Quote DragunovHUN 17th September 2009, 12:54
They said it's not being sold separately. That doesn't rule out a future release.
Quote Veles 17th September 2009, 13:30
Even if it's not, surely this means that they will update the 360 to allow 250Gb partitions, all we need to do is find out what 250Gb drive they're using and bobs your uncle we can make our own just like you can do with 120Gb ones.
Quote Ross1 17th September 2009, 14:20
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Originally Posted by Veles
Even if it's not, surely this means that they will update the 360 to allow 250Gb partitions, all we need to do is find out what 250Gb drive they're using and bobs your uncle we can make our own just like you can do with 120Gb ones.

was going to say that... its pretty easy to do as well.
Quote craigey1 17th September 2009, 15:12
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Even if it's not, surely this means that they will update the 360 to allow 250Gb partitions, all we need to do is find out what 250Gb drive they're using and bobs your uncle we can make our own just like you can do with 120Gb ones.

was going to say that... its pretty easy to do as well.

You say that, but there are still people having issues with various save games not working when using non-MS hard drives.
It's the only thing preventing me from upgrading my drive!
Quote SpeedLegion 17th September 2009, 15:28
http://www.pcworld.com/article/150970/upgrade_your_xbox_360s_hard_drive_on_the_cheap.html

^^ are PCworld allowed to have that on their site?
Surely it goes against something or other? Hack's aren't normally legal are they lol?
Quote <A88> 17th September 2009, 17:14
It sounds silly but I can see myself needing 250GB before the 360's time is up. I've used 1/2 of my 120GB already before installing a lot of my games and when the Zune Video appears (which should include buy-to-own) it'll reach its limit quite quickly.
Quote pimlicosound 17th September 2009, 17:16
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Originally Posted by SpeedLegion
http://www.pcworld.com/article/150970/upgrade_your_xbox_360s_hard_drive_on_the_cheap.html

^^ are PCworld allowed to have that on their site?
Surely it goes against something or other? Hack's aren't normally legal are they lol?

That kind of modification just voids the warranty; it isn't illegal.
Quote i7lova 17th September 2009, 17:53
Will Microsoft really ban you from live if you do that hard drive mod? If so it's not as worth it as they make it out to be! Besides that there are hundreds of 60 and 120's on ebay for pretty cheap.
Quote keir 17th September 2009, 21:58
lol ofcourse they wont.
Quote leexgx 19th September 2009, 17:20
you can use an 500gb hdd i think if you wanted to, i never buy an hdd from M$ as they overcharging way to much for it, HDD mod is better to use (funny that PC world posted the way to do it beaning an year old guess they was not told to pull it)
Quote bigsharn 8th November 2009, 19:10
Hmm, it doesn't quite work like that Shawn

I really want them to unlock it so I can just whack a generic 500Gb drive in there

Even better, add RAID support :D
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