Microsoft has announced, presumably amid much smoke, rubbing together of clawed hands, and maniacal laughter, that it’s prepping to launch a new, expensive, 320GB hard drive for the Xbox 360 S model.<\/p>\n
The hard drive carries a recommended retail price of $129.99 over the pond, or just over R1,000 at current exchange rates (before you factor in shipping, import duties, and everyone in the distribution channel taking their cut).<\/p>\n
Best case scenario, this makes the 320GB drive cost about R3 per gigabyte or – in the vernacular – “still a bit much, isn’t it?”.<\/p>\n
I’m sure it’ll look really nice next to the official $79.99, 16GB USB drive Microsoft released last year.<\/p>\n
We have contacted Microsoft SA for local retail pricing and availability information and are waiting on their response.<\/p>\n
Oh well, apparently it comes with a download token for Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars<\/a>, which might be the worst game I’ve played this year – but it’s free.<\/p>\n The 320GB hard drive is already included with the special edition Gears of War 3 console, as well as the incoming Star Wars console, which might look like a cool bonus but it’s really just keeping up with the standard 320GB PS3.<\/p>\n 320 GB HDD coming to Xb<\/span><\/strong><\/a>ox 360 later this month<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More GBs for your $s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}