Hard Drive in the 360 and Xbox Live Silver

[tshelton]

Just a quick question. If I am not mistaken, the core system won't have a hard drive. If I get this system then, how do I save games? Are there memory cards or what? Also, what is the Xbox Live Silver that comes with it? It also says that it comes with a 30 day trial of Live Gold, so what's the difference?

[Macar91]

Re: Hard Drive in the 360 and Xbox Live Silver

THe core system does not come with the HDD so you will need to buy a $40 memory card. The silver comes with the core and premium and is the free version of live. The gold is better because of some features, but not much better. The real difference is that with silver, you can't play multiplayer, but with gold, you can.

[AtXj]

Re: Hard Drive in the 360 and Xbox Live Silver

Im not positive on this but since there is a USB port on the 360 if you have any USB storage device you should be able to plug that in and save games onto it.

[Pappy Knuckles]

Re: Hard Drive in the 360 and Xbox Live Silver

Im not positive on this but since there is a USB port on the 360 if you have any USB storage device you should be able to plug that in and save games onto it.

makes sense to me, but would microsoft allow it to be that easy? plus that would pretty much put the makers of action replay up ****s creek. if we could tranfer game saves with out their little docking station, it allow more people to experience edited rosters and things like that.

[jt45]

Re: Hard Drive in the 360 and Xbox Live Silver

Can we download rosters and play online with the free version of Live?

[Pappy Knuckles]

Re: Hard Drive in the 360 and Xbox Live Silver

i don't know if you can download, but i know you can't play online with the free one.

[dagger55]

Re: Hard Drive in the 360 and Xbox Live Silver

you CAN NOT use any external usb storage device for game saves. MS has done this to prevent hacks.... all saves must come from the HDD or memory cards

[jt45]

Re: Hard Drive in the 360 and Xbox Live Silver

i don't know if you can download, but i know you can't play online with the free one.

what is the purpose of the free XBL?

[Pappy Knuckles]

Re: Hard Drive in the 360 and Xbox Live Silver

what is the purpose of the free XBL?

Xbox Live Silver is a free service that ships with all Xbox 360s and allows any Xbox 360 user with a broadband connection to get online and create a gamer tag as well as a new ID type called a gamer card. The gamer card is a profile that displays a gamer's interests, skill level, competitiveness and gaming accomplishments. In addition, gamers can use Xbox Live Silver to chat, download content and play certain games. Xbox Live Silver allows gamers to access most of the features of Xbox Live. The one key feature missing from the free service is the ability to play multiplayer games online.

In order to play in multiplayer matches online, you must upgrade to the subscription service known as Xbox Live Gold. The Gold service has all the functionality of Silver plus the ability to play multiplayer games. Additionally, Xbox Live Gold has exclusive content, tournaments and Xbox Live events.

Both Silver and Gold are able to access the Xbox Marketplace. The Marketplace is a new online feature that enables one-stop shopping for Xbox Live gamers to buy additional content, demos, videos, music and more through a microtransaction system.

In the Marketplace, real money translates into points, and gamers use these points to buy things. They can either buy points in the real world in the form of cards purchased at retail locations or use credit cards to buy points online. Microsoft hopes that one day, the Marketplace will be where gamers sell their own, user-created content to one another.

not much. you can do everything but play multiplayer online, which is the main reason most people would want live.

[goh]

Re: Hard Drive in the 360 and Xbox Live Silver

I just want it for updates and DLC so it's great for me. Hearing about all the people that are asses online I don't really care to play,probably worse than the online poker rooms.

[jt45]

Re: Hard Drive in the 360 and Xbox Live Silver

If I can get online roster updates I'll be good. That's really the only reason I ever used XBL. I'm not much for the online gaming.

[AtXj]

Re: Hard Drive in the 360 and Xbox Live Silver

I'm not much for the online gaming.

Your really missing out.

[Vince]

Re: Hard Drive in the 360 and Xbox Live Silver

You can play Xbox live with the core system. you do not need a Harddrive, just a memory card to save you gamertag on there.