Microsoft has announced they will be releasing a 250GB Xbox 360 hard drive March 15. Sadly, for the time being it is an exclusive accessory to Japan.
“Microsoft is now offering a standalone 250GB Hard Drive in Japan to provide consumers in Japan more storage options for their games and entertainment.”
The hard drive will run for 15, 540 yen, which is roughly $173 US. That is about $100 more expensive than portable USB hard drives of the same size for the PC I might add. Even worse is it is almost as much as buying a whole new Xbox 360 system. I wonder if Microsoft will ever drop the price of their overpriced memory units.
No word if the 250GB HD will make it to North America in the future, but if you have an eBay account you could always buy one from Japan since hard drives are region free.
Do you think Microsoft is over-charging for their accessories?
Source: IGN
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Yeah, this is a little overpriced since a 250GB harddrive for a computer is priced around $50, but these are custom made for the xbox so I can see them being a little more expensive.
This makes me question why Japan needs these bigger hard drives more than North Americans? What do you use all that hard drive space for? Do people actually install their games? Or do you keep music and videos on the hard drive?
Anyone maxing out their HDD want to tell me why it's full? Mine is basically empty.
There's two very good of reasons to have a 250GB HD on a X360:
-You can install the games you have on disk, making your console heat a lot less, load things faster, and overall increasing your console's lifespan
-MS offers full XB and X360 games as paid downloads. Not only convenient but also often (always?) cheaper than buying the boxed game
…thats a rip off, i got my hdd for my ps3 way cheaper than that off of newegg. and it has more space than that. i love my 500gb ps3
seriously MS always finds a way to get their users to buy MS products only for its system and disable 3rd party hardware.
why is japan getting it first? isnt microsoft based in the US whata JIP!