Microsoft has just announced the Xbox 360 60GB LIVE Starter Pack. The pack, priced at a RRP of $149.95, contains a 60GB detachable hard drive, an Xbox 360 Headset, an Ethernet cable and a three-month Gold subscription to Xbox LIVE. It's being promoted as a great upgrade for those planning on getting the New Xbox Experience, coming November 19th, which allows for installation of games onto a hard drive, the use of Xbox LIVE Parties and is a required update for all Xbox LIVE users.

Before you fork out the dough, though, it might be worth investigating whether you're eligible for another offer Microsoft are running where you can cheaply purchase a hard drive.

The LIVE starter pack should also come with a transfer cable so people with 20GB HDD's can transfer their stuff..

It's almost tempting but I won't do it if I can't transfer my arcade games.

Headset = $20au
3 Months Gold = $20au
Ethernet Cable = Who doesn't have a spare one already? I have like 25 left over from highschool lans.

So really you're paying $110 for a new HDD to store arcade games and game data, since a 500GB external HDD costs $150-200, and is portable, this is good value, how?

So really you're paying $110 for a new HDD to store arcade games and game data, since a 500GB external HDD costs $150-200, and is portable, this is good value, how?

Because MS produce propriety hard drives for the 360, meaning you can't use any other hard drive on there except MS's incredibly expensive pieces of crap.

So really you're paying $110 for a new HDD to store arcade games and game data, since a 500GB external HDD costs $150-200, and is portable, this is good value, how?

Because MS produce propriety hard drives for the 360, meaning you can't use any other hard drive on there except MS's incredibly expensive pieces of crap.

Yet another reason I switched to PS3. I can keep all my movies/music on an external HDD, and just plug it in to watch it. Now if only Sony would sign with apple's M4A, instead of pushing their own, which no one uses - oh, and support *all* media codecs instead of just Dixv and two or three others - then I'd be happy.

Why should they turn around and support Apple's proprietary format over their own proprietary format?

Why should they turn around and support Apple's proprietary format over their own proprietary format?

To make it easier and better for the consumer by adopting widely used formats instead of pushing codecs with barely 1% market share for the sake of corporate image?

Apple's format has the fairplay shit in it? I don't see why they should support that either..

It would be great if people would just use the open formats that are often better in quality and more widely supported because all the good bloat-free software supports other open formats by default but it isn't going to happen.

Companies are incestutous, they breed within themselves to propogate corporate image. It sucks, but there's not much you can do except hack it.

Apple's format has the fairplay sh*t in it? I don't see why they should support that either..

Apple has the market share, and more and more companies are gettin onboard with it. Sony lost, fair is fair - same way MS lost their DHDVD to Blu-Ray.

360-PS3 should just open up the consoles to support all the codecs and compression extentions instead of pushing all their own crap that barely works anyway.