12-09-2005, 08:36 AM
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X-Box 360 Missing 7 Gigs on Hard Drive!
33% of X-Box Hard Drive Space Missing
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Word is spreading like a wild fire on the internet: Microsoft only gives 13GB of diskspace with the Xbox 360 instead of the 20GB. Most of you would think I would start bashing at Microsoft for ripping off their customers. Not this time...
While the Xbox 360 does come with a 20GB hard drive, users aren't able to fully use every offered MB. They are in fact only able to use two third of the full disksize.
So where did the other 6-7GB go to? Is Bill storing his secrets on your Xbox 360? I certainly hope so, but that's not quite what's filling it. The lost diskspace is used for backwards compatibility with the older Xbox 1 games. The reason why they are doing this is because they need to emulate the Nvidia GPU they used in the Xbox 1 while they now use ATI GPU's. Nvidia didn't license the transistion, so Microsoft needs to emulate all this.
An other disk eating monster is the Xbox 360 Live options and MS is obviously thinking about the future. Calculating Virtual Memory into the entire picture makes it complete.
The only problem with this scenario is that customers are left in the dark about these little marketing tricks...
***Update 8-dec 7:53PM (CET)
Whether the emulation with the graphics card will hog any diskspace is still being issued. Another point where the Xbox 360 might loose space is the switch between the x86 CPU in the Xbox 1 and the IBM power pc processor inside the Xbox 360. This emulation might be heavy when it comes to disk storage.
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