Expert: Octane - 11/16/2008

Question
Hello, I want to get an Xbox this holiday, but I'm kinda broke so I'm trying to spend cheaper.

My first option is the Xbox360 with a 20GB Hard drive, but some people told me that the memory space isn't enough.

My question is: are 20GB enough to use live services, store aprox. 15 game loads, and will be able to use new microsoft's update (Nov 19) to store the games to decrease load time?

Answer
Gday Sophie,

From you description on what you want to use it for the 20GB should be enough for you to do what you want.  (Most game loads/patches are about .5-1 GB but note that if you want to store and actually full copy of a game on you hard drive these games run about 6-7GB each and are increasing in size.)

The NXE is going to use up hard drive space quite a bit of it.  A 20 GB drive will not hold that many games for loading (Between 3-6)  So bigger is always better.  It actually only saves you about 10-20 seconds in load time from what I have read.  You still going to have the disk in to play anyway.  (NXE should like Vista very cool looking but uses up a heap of space achieving it)

Hope this helps

Octane