It had existed as a rumor for a while, but the news of Xbox 360 Arcades shipping with 265MB of internal storage has now been confirmed by Microsoft. Arcade units will no longer need external memory cards, coming packed with the tools needed to save a couple of games and remind you that you need a hard drive.
"We are constantly updating the console's more than 1700 internal components," confirmed an MS rep. "We can confirm that we are moving to internal memory for the Xbox 360 Arcade. The physical internal memory is the same size as the previous external memory units -- 256MB."
Is it just me, or has this generation seen a ridiculous amount of SKU releases and updates? It's largley due to rise of the blogs that have seen this kind of stuff reported on more, but I still don't recall the PlayStation 2 and Xbox having this much crap on the shelves.
And then we have the Wii, which hasn't changed in all the time it's been released, outselling the lot of it.
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8:08 AM on 12.03.2008
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Wii on the other hand had only three revisions up to now, that I know of. And there's another one planed. The changes? I believe it's just security changes. People say, also, that the first Wii has problems running Smash Brawl, but I can't confirm that.
I think this mainly evidences consumer ignorance. Not to take anything away from the Wii console, but I think an informed consumer would find it hard to justify a Wii purchase (@ $250) over an Xbox 360 (@ $200) at this point, at least in terms of price to value/functionality.
Yes, but the main reason why I'm not interested in the Arcade is that I want an HDMI port, which I believe the arcade doesn't have. Still, if it comes down to straight $$$, I can deal without the HDMI.
Arcade without an external mem unit
Or
Psu rated at 150watt (or 12.1A shows on the back of the 360 - need to move the console to see in the window)
Also they didn't start making jasper until mid October so don't buy anything with a build date before then ( you can see the build date in the window easily by pushing it down )
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The arcade has an HDMI port, it just doesn't come with an HDMI cable.
Consumer ignorance is pretty much a given. You don't need to evidence that. What's really interesting is how beutifully it evidences manufacturer ignorance.
Consumers in general don't want to have to choose, they want commercials to tell them in the simplest possible way what to buy. It's just staggering that Microsoft and Sony don't get this, especially since both companies historically made their fortune on this principle.
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