Xbox 360 250GB Console

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The removable hard drive which was previously located prominently on top of the console was redesigned to be installed internally via a removable section of the grill on the bottom and was no longer externally visible when installed. They instead included 4gb of integrated storage, however these models retained the new hard drive bay and could easily have their storage upgraded via an official Microsoft hard drive. As a result of the far-too-long-awaited Dashboard update which finally made Memory Units redundant, the Xbox 360 250GB forgoes the ports for those devices, leaving only two USB ports up front.

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Quite why Microsoft still hasn’t gone down the Sony PS3 route of letting you use any hard drive you like we don’t know, but c’est la vie.The limited editions of the Xbox 360 S included one or two matching controllers depending on the edition. This is the reason you benefit from a minimum 1-year warranty with the purchase of a refurbished device at Back Market. There’s a Kensington lock connection point, too, for ensuring that the boardroom Xbox doesn’t go walkabout. Now that the Xbox 360 no longer sounds like an F-14A Tomcat on flyby every time you do more than admire it, powered off, from a distance, it’s DivX playback ability looks much more attractive.

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Hard drive-based game loads remain the way to go, though, because now DVD drive spinning up is still annoyingly loud. Sure it’s less power-hungry, quieter and has a larger capacity hard drive bundled than the Elite (limited edition specials accepted) ever did but under the window dressing it’s still just an Xbox. The Star Wars edition was stylized as R2-D2 and included a matching white Kinect accessory and C-3PO controller with updated stick design and transforming D-pad.

The name doesn’t matter, what matters is that it’s here and whether it’s a worthy upgrade to its rather successful predecessor. The Kinect was released several months after the Xbox 360 S, but the console was often marketed and bundled with the accessory. Updates in pursuit of power reduction aside, there’s nothing different about the Xbox 360 260GB’s silicon. The new design carried forward the Xbox 360 emblems featured on the disk drive and side of the console. The Star Wars and Halo 4 editions of the Xbox 360 S are the only editions to feature blue power lights instead of the standard green.