Xbox 360 Help

[Harpham]

Im thinking of buying a 360.

Do you need a big hard drive on it?

I can get an Arcade version for £40 and then id buy Forza...

Any advice?

 

[mugglesquop]

i've got a Arcade, but bought a 80 or 60 gb drive off a mate. used 20gb installing games. got about 5 or 6 installed.

Forza definatly needs installing, takes forever to load otherwise.

 

[Harpham]

Would you say 20gb would be enough memory then? Ive just seen one on fleabay with 20gb for an alright price?

 

[Cookie]

Would you say 20gb would be enough memory then? Ive just seen one on fleabay with 20gb for an alright price?

Depends if you want to put games on it to speed up load times and reduce noise

 

[steven.m]

How do you install games on hard drive?

 

[Cookie]

How do you install games on hard drive?

Put disc in 360
Press Y instead of A where you'd normally launch the game from.
Select Install to Hard Drive

 

[Adam]

Are you talking about Forza 2 or 3 ...

 

[Rhino172]

don't get the 20gb

thats all I have. Installed one game to hard drive (Guitar Hero World Tour as the disc is scratched) leaves me with about 4gb free...

I'm going to be buying a bigger one when forza 3 comes out as it's potentially on two discs and the second disc needs to be installed to get the most out of the game from what I've read.

 

[Jonesy]

20gb wont last m8, try get a 60 or 80gb!

 

[Harpham]

how much would additional storage/harddrive cost? as ive found a 20gb version which seems like quite a good deal?

 

[the1]

You will eventually need the 120gb one though if you want to install/downloads games + demos. Also heard that Microsoft might be launching a 500gb hard drive towards the end of the year as well - whether there's any truth in that though remains to be seen?!.