X06 Korea: 360 gets 100 GB hard drive?

by Richard Mitchell { Oct 19th 2006 at 1:30PM }

At the X06 event in Korea, it has apparently been revealed that Microsoft is releasing a larger hard drive for the Xbox 360. How much larger? 100 GB in total. The image above was taken from a slide presentation, though our ~~evil robot~~ overlords at Joystiq note that this item seems to have been missed by Gamespot's coverage of the event (anybody here read Korean?). Frankly, we find the image a little dubious. A standard 20 GB 360 hard drive only says "HDD" on the side and makes no mention of capacity. True, Microsoft would probably find a way to differentiate the products visually, but why lose the "HDD" lettering? Then again, we all knew they'd release a bigger drive eventually, and now is as good a time as any with the PS3 launch only a month away.

We'll go ahead and echo Joystiq's concerns here. What happens if Microsoft starts bundling these with Premium 360s? Will 20 GB premium owners be screwed? Also, how much will this cost? Similar drives go for $200, and we doubt the average gamer wants to throw that kind of cash around just for more space. Assuming this rumor isn't bogus, what do you think?

[Via Joystiq]

Tags: add on, AddOn, hdd, microsoft

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

HandsomeTy @ Oct 19th 2006 1:35PM

I think I will stick with my 250 gig hard drive on my computer I bought for 90 dollars. I would rather get that Xsata thing.

King Keepo @ Oct 19th 2006 1:51PM

I think they should have bundled a hard drive with every damned 360 so that we could all use the benefits of pre-loading resources and reduced load times.

djphatjive @ Oct 19th 2006 2:06PM

Who cares. If you need more than 20 gigs on your 360 then you are a pack rat. Delete some stuff already! Now if they started coming out with new features like movie download rentals then that would be probably nessesary. Unless of course they encode them in divx, and being that divx support is on its way it would only take up like 1 gig or so for a awesome copy of a movie to watch. And being that is would be a rental it would delete for you anyway and your space is back. Im guessing that it will only be a accessory or it will be an all new bundle. Like the supreme addition 360 for all the morons that love to keep crap on there 360!

Jamil @ Oct 19th 2006 2:21PM

That looks photoshopped to me

Eli 05 @ Oct 19th 2006 2:28PM

I would love to have a larger hard drive but I couldn't justify spending the extra money for it. Same goes for the wireless headset, nice to have but not worth the money.

sracer @ Oct 19th 2006 2:34PM

yes, that is photoshopped. There is a companion "photo" depicting a 256MB memory card... except the dopes forgot to alter the "64MB" embossed on the edge of the card.

ruiner @ Oct 19th 2006 3:24PM

totally fake...please double check before publishing!

Scott @ Oct 19th 2006 3:44PM

Not Fake - Already up at TeamXbox.com, Engadget, and other places.

MynameisScotttoo @ Oct 19th 2006 5:10PM

I think a 100gb xbox 360 harddrive for $200 is a good deal.

20gb=$100
100gb=$200

its a good deal, and its not the same as a USB drive or an external device since it has a cache.

DA360 @ Oct 19th 2006 6:51PM

Very nice, been something Xbox 360 owners with allot of demos, music on the HDD, videos, etc been wanting for awhile. Just hope it won't be very expensive (don't know why it would, 100GB SATA Laptop HDDs are like $80 online).

Also, its NOT fake, this is direct from X06 Korea. Apparently Microsoft Korea didn't have the time to create good images (they even had to use the 64MB memory unit image). Also, they show a screenshot of the Media blade on the Fall dash update. It appears there's some new media marketplace from what it looks like (adds a new selection to the Media blade): http://www.gameinside.co.kr/bbs_thumb2/bbs_ims/1161258692_0.jpg (notice the new selection above the Media Center. Its too small and I don't know Korean so I don't know what it says).

Doc @ Oct 19th 2006 8:06PM

the new HDD needs to be able to snap like a lego to the old 20gig so that we don't have to waste time transfering old game saves and demos!! 100gig + 20gig would be great price is a concern though

Gadget @ Oct 19th 2006 8:45PM

I wouldn't mind having a larger HDD for Arcade games and music. But if this is real, is Microsoft going to provide a way to copy all my stuff?

Joon @ Oct 19th 2006 11:51PM

The last two lines read:

"10**(obstructed by the presenter, probably 100GB) Hard Drive"
"Release Price: To be announced ("Not yet determined", to be exact)

So, as long as the event at which the photo was taken was real (or the photo itself), we're going to have 100GB HDD!

Joon @ Oct 19th 2006 11:56PM

Oh, BTW, the new selection above the Media Center from the following link reads "Video Marketplace" (!). Oh, so we have another apple wannabe...
http://www.gameinside.co.kr/bbs_thumb2/bbs_ims/1161258692_0.jpg

DA360 @ Oct 20th 2006 1:21AM

Well, that's a far better idea than slapping all these videos in the Live Marketplace, and it could help it integrate with some other services MS has, such as Urge. Hopefully we will see more videos as well, such as TV shows, music videos, and whatnot. As of right now, those have been slim to none on Live Marketplace.