Sun, Oct 12, 2008 | 07:55 BST
Microsoft to hand out “storage solutions” to hard drive-less NXE users
Worried the upcoming NXE Xbox 360 dashboard update won’t fit on your tiny 64MB memory card? Too cheap to do anything about it? Well, your miserly ways are about to pay off, because Microsoft plans to offer free “storage solutions” for those of you who snooze through the tutorial bit about saving your game.
“The new Xbox experience will require 128MB of free space,” Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb told Xbox 360 Fanboy.
“While we expect the majority of consumers to download the New Xbox Experience without a problem, a small percentage of Xbox 360 owners do not have enough memory to accommodate the update. To help ensure all Xbox LIVE members are able to download the New Xbox Experience and enjoy its new features, Microsoft will be offering storage solutions to the Xbox Live community.”
However, that’s where the Major cut the information stream short, subtly implying that maybe we should “be sure to check xbox.com for more details in the coming weeks.”
Our guess? Definitely not a hard drive; those things are killers.
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Posted in: Microsoft, Xbox 360, Xbox Live
Tags: Microsoft, nxe, storage problem, storage solution, Xbox 360
6 comments
#1
Esha
12/10/08, 8:30 am
Who knows? Their solution might just be a discount coupon for a lower end hard drive, or they might actually be handing out hard drives but of the 5-10GiB variety. It’ll be interesting to see what they actually do.
#2
JPickford
12/10/08, 9:30 am
What a mess.
#3
Blerk
12/10/08, 10:37 am
Quite why they didn’t take the opportunity add a 20gb hard drive to the Arcade model in the last batch of price revisions, I have no idea.
I guess theoretically this only affects a small minority of 360 owners who have an older Core and less than three games, though. Their profits are probably safe.
#4
Esha
12/10/08, 11:57 am
Unless the news gets out and lots and lots of people buy Core machines and take them up on their free hard drive offer, should they make one.
#5
Psychotext
12/10/08, 1:55 pm
Sounds like a great way to make more money.
#6
BartonFink
12/10/08, 2:29 pm
Yup Blerk
Definitely the daftest thing MS have done this gen was a hdd less SKU.
So what will this be then?
He mentioned storage to XBL community, online storage perhaps?