Core Vs Premiun

stevieg_irl

sorry if its been covered
is there any difference between the Core and Premium?
I know u get all the accesories with the Premium, can you buy these all for the Core?
since the Core has no Hard Drive, is the 20gig one bought seperatly the same as the Premium?

basically, cani get all the same features with the Core? and what about LIVE?
thanks

Jammer

the only thing you can't match up is the chrome DVD tray.

everything else you can buy, although it would cost €50-90 euro more then buying the premium

peterk19

stevieg_irl wrote:

sorry if its been covered
is there any difference between the Core and Premium?
I know u get all the accesories with the Premium, can you buy these all for the Core?
since the Core has no Hard Drive, is the 20gig one bought seperatly the same as the Premium?

basically, cani get all the same features with the Core? and what about LIVE?
thanks

yup its the same once you buy all the accessories well almost the same you cant buy the premium silver dvd drive plate
Pete

stevieg_irl

peterk19 wrote:

yup its the same once you buy all the accessories well almost the same you cant buy the premium silver dvd drive plate
Pete

i won't lose sleep over that, thanks lads

Tank Top Fever!

I got a core, the only thing you really need is the hard drive. As for the rest, I could live without them

C_Breeze

ah now , u do need the chrome tray instead of some cheap plastic thing . - but if u ever got desperate you could actually switch them . i checked , and the tray is esily removed with to clips

Giblet

I think the chrome one looks crap

freer

I gots a core no difference. I'd even rather the wired controller cos i cen use it on me pc. Me mate has a wireless one he's gone through lots of batteries allready and he bought the plug and play kit which he has pluged into the console nearly all the time so basically it is a wired controller.

Jammer

Its just a chrome effect i think, never really touched it TBH.

I have 2 x wireless controllers, one play and recharge and one recharge. I get about 20-25HRS outta the batteries, so its not at all like a wired controller.

They should have went wireless years ago.

god's toy

Yep much can be said for making some toast and still be 'in the game' chatting away.

(Well I think so anyway)

wonder if we will see chrome DVD trays replacement covers in the shops soon?.

Eire05

god's toy wrote:

wonder if we will see chrome DVD trays replacement covers in the shops soon?.

If so, it would be nice to see replacement covers to come with faceplates so they'd go with the overall theme. It would fit in nicely IMO.

skywalker

Giblet wrote:

I think the chrome one looks crap

Yeah, I actually think the plain white one looks much nicer, fits in better with the machine.

turnfan

The core system could be a good option if a bigger hard drive is brought out in the new year....which is likely.

flogen

yeah, I wonder if they'll up the HDD size in future with the Premium, maybe not soon, but I can see it happening in 2 years time.
I can also see many 'HDD needed' games coming around by then too (given that there already is one on the way... FFXII... or whatever one it is).

I don't see myself using a 20gig HD too quickly though, I mean I might get some trailers and demos, but they tend to get deleted after a while anyway, it's only game saves and my xbox live stuff that I'd be wanting to keep.

kaisersose77

Well if there was a chip out and a 360 version of XBMC plus you could still use xbox live, then that 20gig would be full soon enough.....................well i wish!


I read somewhere before that someone at micorsoft was giving a demonstration of the 360 and it had over 30gigs free space left, but that was probably a devkit.

Ri_Nollaig

i dont really see the need for 20+ gig HDD not when you are only using them for saving games anyway.

koneko

Save games, demos, trailers, stuff you get through the marketplace and arcade, really.

That won't fill up 20GB for me anytime soon, but I don't store any music on the drive at all (portable player does that fine, and interfaces nicely with the XB if I want it to).

flogen

kaisersose77 wrote:

I read somewhere before that someone at micorsoft was giving a demonstration of the 360 and it had over 30gigs free space left, but that was probably a devkit.

30 gigs where? Was it a bigger hard drive or something?