Xbox 360... 4GB or 250GB?

mdaudioguy
mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
edited December 2012 in Video Games
Such a huge difference in storage space between the two available models - 4GB vs 250GB. Why would I want one over the other? Do I need a lot of storage? My son wants one for Christmas. He already has one at his mom's house, so I guess he'd just carry the disks back and forth. I don't think we'd use it for much else, since we already have a PS3, which we use for Netflix and movies on demand.

So, all you Xboxers out there, do you recommend one model or the other? Any other considerations?
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited December 2012
    If he is doing online playing get the 250.Hell get the 250 anyway.If i understand it correctly it stores more so you don't have lag from buffering.
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  • avelanchefan
    avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
    edited December 2012
    I have both I do not notice any storage issues. Yes I do download games onto hard drive on the bigger one, but again is that what your looking for? Your son will have to bring his disks either way, you need the disk in the drive.

    Also just so you know you can put a 32 or 64 gb stick in and use that as storage also. And honestly there are pros and cons with both ps3 and xbox, but I prefer xbox as a media station more than ps3.

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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,593
    edited December 2012
    avelanchefan wrote: »
    Also just so you know you can put a 32 or 64 gb stick in and use that as storage also. And honestly there are pros and cons with both ps3 and xbox, but I prefer xbox as a media station more than ps3.

    This is what we did for my dad. We got him the 4 gig and then a 32 gig flash drive (it cant do a single 32 gig flash drive). You can do multiple 32 gig flash drives if needed.

    In my dad's case he doesnt do tons of gaming (but for Halo 4) so he needs more than 4 but not the full 250 IHMO.
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  • specd_out
    specd_out Posts: 505
    edited December 2012
    if he does alot of online gaming you want the 250. a lot of the popular games have map packs or downloadable content. For example Battlefield 3 as of right now has about 9.6gb of extra content that is used for online gaming.
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  • seabeerob213
    seabeerob213 Posts: 1,843
    edited December 2012
    if he already carries his games back and forth in between he can do the sam with the hard drive, that way all his saves and downloads will all be on both xboxs and hew wont have to wait for his profile to update from being used online on a different xbox,
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