Don't tell me "20GB's," I know that. I want to know how many games I could fit on a 20GB before it's full. I'm thinking about the 60GB, but now I wonder if 20GB might be better for me.
"Don't tell me "20GB's," I know that. I want to know how many games I could fit on a 20GB before it's full. I'm thinking about the 60GB, but now I wonder if 20GB might be better for me."
I don't know what to tell you other than the obvious. You don't have to worry about arcade games taking up all that space. If you're asking about how many games would fit on a 20GB hard drive using the fall update I couldn't tell you that, there are too many variables to take into account.
I just meant like, if I had 100 different game save files, and 50 arcade games, would it all fit on the 20GB hard drive? I probably won't even have 100 game save files and 50 arcade games. I just was wondering how much it could hold like, in approximate number of games...
"I just meant like, if I had 100 different game save files, and 50 arcade games, would it all fit on the 20GB hard drive? I probably won't even have 100 game save files and 50 arcade games. I just was wondering how much it could hold like, in approximate number of games..."
as i said, demos i usually delete after im done with them....so they dont take up that much space.
and arcade games are usually 50mb - 200 mb, and game saves are a few megs..........20 gb is more than enough just for games.
get the bigger ones if youre interested in HD movies and other content
"Alright, looks like I'm gonna get the 20GB, thanks for your input. =] Oh wait, I can always buy an extra hard drive or something right?"
you can buy extra ones, but they are over priced.
once you get on live theres so much stuff youll want to download that you wont stick to your "only games" motto. so you might wanna look into the 60 gb, but as i said if you know you will only stick to games 20gb is enough.
Games and arcade games. I'm not a big movie guy, and any that I do see are in theaters or rented. And I'm sure I'll get demos and delete them when I'm done. But if I can survive on the 20GB with mainly game saves and arcade games downloaded, then I think I'll be fine.
In terms of rippable games (the new feature that's coming out), since the HD uses at least 5 or 6 gigs to format (fucking worthless Microsoft architecture) you can store maybe two, if you don't have anything else on it.
"In terms of rippable games (the new feature that's coming out), since the HD uses at least 5 or 6 gigs to format (fucking worthless Microsoft architecture) you can store maybe two, if you don't have anything else on it."
I wonder how it will work with multiple disc games.
"I don't want t rip the games off the disc onto the hard drive, I just want to play some games off of it, and download some games. That's about it...."
ripping makes the load times faster, some video showed gta4 being 6gb or somthing.....so you can just rip the game youre playing at the moment, delete it the next time you get another game and rip the new one, im pretty sure it doesnt remove the saves, just the ripped game files........thats what im doing
Yeah 20 GB is enough for games and demos, if you delete the demos after you are done playing them. But if you want to take advantage of the new feature coming with the new Xbox Live of uploading game files to your harddrive you would need a bigger HD.
Technically, the 20GB only has 13GB that you can use. 7 of it is reserved for other things, like the backwards compatibility. I'm down to 8GB now, and I actually hardly have anything saved on my 360. Just game saves, about 6 game trailers, maybe like 8 themes, 3-4 XBLA games, maybe like 2-3 XBLA demos, and some DLC for the games I own. I find that it's the downloadable content that kills up all the space, since it's not being read off a disk or anything and is all directly on the hard drive. I wanted to download Ninja Gaiden Black as an Xbox Original, but it takes up 6GB and then I'd only have 2GB left, which just isn't enough for me.
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