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The rumored Xbox 360 Arcade system looks to be inches away from becoming a reality, according to this fuzzy image snapped at an unnamed retail store. The details, as we have them, are thus: a hard-drive-free Xbox 360 that comes packaged with a 256MB memory card (to satisfy developers like Rockstar, who want to require storage for GTA IV) and five Xbox Live Arcade games. It'll cost $279, the same price as the Core it'll be replacing, and the smart money is on it coming in the next two weeks, or at the very least before the holiday buying orgy commences. [Gamespot via Kotaku]
Xbox 360 Arcade Coming Soon, to Match Core System's Price
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3:36 PM on Thu Oct 11 2007
By Adam Frucci
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I like this idea. If only the core had the memory card from the beginning...
Kind of weird that it's called the Arcade, but you can't play any games from the Live Arcade due to the lack of HD?
Are the XBox360 memory cards stupidly overpriced proprietary things?
Or, is that 256MB card basically a USB thumb drive in a capacity smaller than anybody bothers manufacturing anymore?
If a 1GB USB drive can be had for $10...this thing's worth $2.50 at best -- at that price, Rockstar could freaking include one with their game.
On the other hand, if stupid Microsoft demands some proprietary thing, and they charge $50 for it, then that's pretty lame...and it screws over consumers (for more money), games manufacturers (by limiting their capabilities to include features in games, since not everybody will have an overpriced bit of storage on their 360 -- whether or not all new Microsoft systems include storage, they still sold the Core system with nothing for over a year), and consumers again (since the games they get won't have all the features they could have had, even if that consumer paid for the overpriced hard drive, etc.).
@Chimera:
That is what the memcard is for. The whole reason the arcade games had a 50 mb limit to begin with was so they could fit onto a memcard.
(kinda off topic)has anyone been to mexico? They have x-boxes in a (literally) arcade form, weird and cool and the same time
why does it say "sold separately" for HDMI digital AV cable? I think that means it has a HDMI port. Otherwise it would say not available or something like that. Unless of course this is fake or it doesn't say sold separately.
@makalaka:
They have been down porting HDMI for a while now. It already hit the premium and was supposed to be coming to the core, now arcade. it makes sense from a production point just to use the same motherboard across the systems to save money and use color/storage as the differentiating feature.
@EQC: From what I can ascertain, one can use USB drives to store what ever information you want, and it can be accessed through the portable media app, but you CANNOT use the drive to store LiveArcade games. Someone may have made a hack for that, but as of right now, I have not found one.
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