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Xbox 360- WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Here’s a question I think alot of 360 owners with 20GB Hard drives will be pondering with the NXE coming up. Now that you can install a 6.8GB disc to your drive with at best 13 GB available, do you upgrade the HDD, buy a new 360 or try to live with 13GB (nee 20 GB)?

Here’s my situation. I have an early 2006 Australian launch 360 Pro/Premium whatever you want to call it. I don’t have shedloads of DLC, just a number of XBLA games and demoes and some map packs for the MP games I play most such as Halo 3, CoD, etc. And some Guitar Hero Songs. And I download a couple of demoes a month. So at the moment, I have about 5 gig to play with, which isn’t enough to install a single DVD game.

My 360, covered for the RROD til March 2009, has so far twice RRODed, but the last time was over a year ago (touch wood). It also doesn’t have HDMI. I am happy with the picture on my Full HD set using the VGA but it would make things easier if I was able to use a HDMI switcher unit.

I see my options as being:

1- Buy a standalone 60GB or 120GB drive and keep the old 360.

2- Buy a new Premium or Elite and keep the old 360 as a backup.

3- Do nothing and just re-install games everytime I wanna swap. Demoes are for suckers and XBLA is worthless.

Option 3 is rather mean. What the hell did I do to deserve that Option 3, you heartless bastard? Option 3 is a cunt.

Cheapest is just buy a new HDD, but considering the price of a 60GB HDD in Australia is only a third less than an arcade unit. This is from the MS press release announcing the price cut.

The cost of the HDD’s are$149 for the 60GB starter pack (also has three months XBLive Gold access, ethernet and wired headset) and $199 for the 120GB. The Aussie dollar has devalued 30% against the US dollar in the last 3 months (it was AU$1= US98c, now that’s AU$1 = US68c) so I’m guessing MS aren’t going to cut the accessories.

An arcade and a 60GB starter pack are going to cost $449 whereas a Premium is $399. I wouldn’t get the 3 months live with the premium but I would be missing the component cables (yes, I already have them from the first xbox 360 and I currently use the VGA and yes I would probably end up using the HDMI but play along with me). So the premium 60GB looks a good deal. It currenly comes with Kung Fu Panda and Lego Indy (I already have Lego Indy on 360). There are other deals where Halo 3 and Mass Effect are thrown in as well at one store (games I already have). Another store throws in Assassin’s Creed (already bought, played, gotten fed up with and traded).

So a premium would allow maybe 4-6 games installed in full as well as have room for DLC and a few demoes at any one time. I think I could live with that over the 120GB since I rarely cycle through more than 2 or three 360 games at a time.

So what would you do?

What would Jean-Luc Picard do? He would just say “Make it so”

What would Han Solo do? He’d shoot first

What would Peter Moore do? He’d get a temporary tatoo

What would Solid Snake do? Did you play MGS2 on XBox? He’d run at 20 FPS.

What would Miyamoto do? He’d do something different but ultimately disappointing

What would Obama do? Not sure, but I’m sure it would involve a speech.

What would you do?