Ms offer life line to 360 core/arcade owners .

[Haggis and tatties]

MS are offering either a free 512 mem card or a refurbished 20HDD to owners of core/arcade 360 systems in the run up to the next big 360 update as the next update will require at least 128 meg storage device for the new dashboard and avatars.

Not to shabby to be honest, a free mem card or a cheap refurbished 20HDDD.

http://360.kombo.com/article.php?artid=14702Microsoft's New Xbox Experience Storage Solution

 

[unimatrix7]

Suddenly the people who bought the 'tard pack' don't seem so stupid, hey?

 

[Skywalker]

That's cool. My parents bought my brother a 360 Arcade last year (it was the cheapest one, they didn't know the difference), and now his birthday's coming up again. A new 20GB HDD would be a cool present for him.

 

[Jim Steele]

Suddenly the people who bought the 'tard pack' don't seem so stupid, hey?

What, are you suggesting they had a flash of clairvoyance?

Not a bad deal. Although as a premium owner I'm thinking "where's MY deal?".

If they said "premium owners get 120gb for £40" tomorrow I'd jump at it.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Well i gave this a go with a old core i had sitting around that i was just about to eBay.......it offered me a refurb 20gig HDD for £12.99.....delivered

Now that's more like it MS.

 

[Holdfast]

Pretty sweet deal. Would it apply if I went out a bought one now (eg on ebay), or is it only to folks who bought one through regular channels before a certain date?

 

[unimatrix7]

Suddenly the people who bought the 'tard pack' don't seem so stupid, hey?

What, are you suggesting they had a flash of clairvoyance?

Not a bad deal. Although as a premium owner I'm thinking "where's MY deal?".

If they said "premium owners get 120gb for £40" tomorrow I'd jump at it.

Yeah, I'm with you buddy. Maybe I'm just being totally unreasonable, but I'm a little shocked that the people who were too cheap and/or ignorant to buy the Premium model are getting handouts from MS. I know a lot of this was MS' stupidity in the first place for trying to foist half-baked packs to consumers, but c'mon - the people who bought the Core/Arcade models weren't lied to, for goodness' sake.

I haven't found this sentiment expressed anywhere else, so maybe I am just off my trolley.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Pretty sweet deal. Would it apply if I went out a bought one now (eg on ebay), or is it only to folks who bought one through regular channels before a certain date?

Well that old core i had was second hand, and i could tell it was a core because it came with the plastic mesh cover where the HDD would be, but it was also not ever registered online...so i think that's how i got lucky.

But if you were to by a core still boxed and unopened with a 64meg card i have no doubt it would work.....although i have no idea if MS will allow people who bought core/arcades with the 256meg card to get the same deal.