xBox360 Arcade version?
Shizzle Games of Belgium is not only showing new prices for other parts of Europe (€449/€349/€279) but also new names for the SKUs, redubbing the Core model “Arcade” and the middle one the “Pro”. That new “Arcade” SKU will also come with five XBLA games which should just about fill the 256 MB memory card it comes packed with. It’s also sporting an HDMI port. Though we haven’t heard of a similar rebranding of the Core here in the U.S. it does make us wonder if we should be interpreting Core systems being discontinued in a whole new way.
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So instead of a core system you are going to get the Arcade version, the version is advertising the fact that you can download games from Live Arcade but…. it doesn’t come with a hard drive? This seems like some kind of cruel joke, but those Live Arcade fans in the UK will have to stock up on memory cards to get the most of the experience from their new xBox because god knows they can’t play the games that require a hard drive Microsoft is about to release.
Microsoft,
Put a Hard Drive in the core unit, or get rid of the core unit, before you have a class action lawsuit against the fact that xBox360 owners can’t play their games on a hard-driveless console.
Source: joystiq
What are you talking about? You can play XBox 360 games without a hard drive. However, you can’t play original XBox games without one, and Microsoft has opened up to the idea of server-based games (ie, MMORPGs) requiring a hard drive.
33% marketing failure?
you can play xbox games without a hardrive… but u cannot play orignals without 1… u can use arcade without a hardrive….
Xbox live which allows u to download games requries a hard drive!!