Xbox 360 Elite question

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:06 pm 0

Is it possible, like, to transfer all my saved-game data and Live Arcade downloads from my old Xbox 360 to my new Xbox 360 Elite... relatively painlessly?

And if yes, and someone here wants to make me an offer for my old-skool Xbox 360 (premium), chuck us a PM...

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:08 pm 0

Yes - A transfer kit is going to become available to allow you to do this.

No prices yet AFAIK.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/syste ... ration.htm

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:12 pm 0

The cable for it is meant to come packed in with the elite, wheras if you just buy the bigger hard drive on it's own you'll need to email MS to get one.

pogo · Post by **pogo** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:48 pm 0

Providing you ignored MS's advice when they launched the video rental service to buy a second drive, in which case you're hosed as it only copies content from one 20GB drive.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:59 pm 0

I'm dying to get a 360, and will probably be selling my DS to put the cash towards it.

Question is, for anyone in the know: Would I be better off getting a 360 Premium with three games for Â£289, or an Elite with no games for Â£329? Bearing in mind finances are tight and I won't be able to buy much but XBLA titles for a while.

Sorry for semi-hijacking the thread.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:13 pm 0

If you're after one right now then I dunno.

Quite a few of us seem to be waiting for the upcoming hardware revision which is due shortly, should increase reliability and such.

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=66642

When the revision comes out personally I'll be having a premium. I have this vague notion it'll be out around September but can't remember where that came from.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:15 pm 0

PaulEMoz wrote:I'm dying to get a 360, and will probably be selling my DS to put the cash towards it.

Question is, for anyone in the know: Would I be better off getting a 360 Premium with three games for Â£289, or an Elite with no games for Â£329? Bearing in mind finances are tight and I won't be able to buy much but XBLA titles for a while.

Sorry for semi-hijacking the thread.

Mmm, you're deciding against 3 games and a 20GB hard drive, and 0 games with a 120GB hard drive.

I have the Premium with 20GB. I have to clean it up on occasion due to large Demo, TV, and Movie download sizes. Fully clean, with everything deleted, I have 14GB of space free (6GB is reserved/used by the 360 and its games).

Movies, TV shows, and Demo's take up large amounts of space, anywhere from 100MB to several gigabytes for HD-quality movies. The average game demo size is around 1GB, average TV show is around 250MB, the average HD movie is 3-4GB, and the average non-HD movie is about 1GB.

Live Arcade stuff is capped at 50MB per game, so you can download all of them and still have plenty of space left for everything else.

Anything you buy on the marketplace can be re-downloaded for free, EXCEPT for movie rentals. So, any Live Arcade games you buy, TV shows you buy, you can re-download again at a later date for free.

Unfortunately, MS doesn't have anywhere to show you a history of what you've purchased previously (if there is one, point me to it). That would be REALLY nice. For now, you need to remember what you purchased, re-navigate to it in the Online Marketplace, see that it's marked "paid for," and then re-download it.

I'd like to have more HD space, personally, but I'd take 3 free good games over that any day. I'm sure the upgrade HD price will come down as the price of the consoles drop.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:18 pm 0

Dave's correct, but remember that in the UK we don't have the ability to d/l movies and TV shows (and aren't likely for a while yet), so a 20GB drive will suit you fine.

pogo · Post by **pogo** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:44 pm 0

PVB wrote:Dave's correct, but remember that in the UK we don't have the ability to d/l movies and TV shows (and aren't likely for a while yet), so a 20GB drive will suit you fine.

They are bound to sort this out sooner or later, hopefully to coincide with the Elite launch, i.e. sooner. Though knowing how these things go in Europe I won't be holding my breath - we're still waiting for the iTunes store to start selling TV shows and films.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:48 pm 0

Live Arcade stuff isn't capped to 50Mb anymore AFAIK.

I'd probably be tempted to grab an Elite Paul - there are some really excellent cheap titles available from XBLA that will tide you over until you can afford some full price stuff (which may well drop in price anyway in time - on the Classics range for example).

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:10 pm 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:Live Arcade stuff isn't capped to 50Mb anymore AFAIK.

I'd probably be tempted to grab an Elite Paul - there are some really excellent cheap titles available from XBLA that will tide you over until you can afford some full price stuff (which may well drop in price anyway in time - on the Classics range for example).

Yeah, I was forgetting about the Classics range. I feel a bit like I'm missing out at the moment, with everyone talking about online leaderboards and co-op play and the like. But if it was really worth holding on, then I might do that (presuming I cobble together the cash to get one anyway). Of course, waiting another month would mean I'd have more cash, so that would be a plus...

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:10 am 0

PaulEMoz wrote:
Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:Live Arcade stuff isn't capped to 50Mb anymore AFAIK.

I'd probably be tempted to grab an Elite Paul - there are some really excellent cheap titles available from XBLA that will tide you over until you can afford some full price stuff (which may well drop in price anyway in time - on the Classics range for example).
Yeah, I was forgetting about the Classics range. I feel a bit like I'm missing out at the moment, with everyone talking about online leaderboards and co-op play and the like. But if it was really worth holding on, then I might do that (presuming I cobble together the cash to get one anyway). Of course, waiting another month would mean I'd have more cash, so that would be a plus...

Or wait until someone else on here buys an Elite and pick up a used premium really cheap...

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 3:41 am 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:Live Arcade stuff isn't capped to 50Mb anymore AFAIK.

Ah, you're right. Googled it, and per Wikipedia, the cap is now 150MB. Good to know.

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:23 pm 0

How about Â£289.99, delivered, for an Elite?

Some bloke on avforums wrote:http://www.marshallward.co.uk/rf/mar/navigation/product.do?Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&SNtt=elite&groupId=427247404&Nu=this_product&SNtk=littlewoods_search&Np=1&SN=85+102&Ntt=427247404&D=427247404&Ntk=group_search&Dx=mode%2bmatchall&thisprod=427247404&N=85+102&Nty=1&Mis_item_id=15&Mis_item_loc_id=1&product=427247404

Use voucher code ZQ438 to get Â£10 off and free delivery

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:30 pm 0

WiteWulf wrote:How about Â£289.99, delivered, for an Elite?

Some bloke on avforums wrote:http://www.marshallward.co.uk/rf/mar/navigation/product.do?Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&SNtt=elite&groupId=427247404&Nu=this_product&SNtk=littlewoods_search&Np=1&SN=85+102&Ntt=427247404&D=427247404&Ntk=group_search&Dx=mode%2bmatchall&thisprod=427247404&N=85+102&Nty=1&Mis_item_id=15&Mis_item_loc_id=1&product=427247404

Use voucher code ZQ438 to get Â£10 off and free delivery

Would have been a done deal if I hadnt heard about the revisions due in September - hope they sort the fan out as mates 360 is so fucking noisy its untrue.