Help! Quick education on Xbox 360 please

[WheelCEO]

need for speed is a great racing game

 

[HALEYSMOMMOM]

I bought the Walmart BF bundle for $199, my husband just wants to play the shoot 'em up games and not download or play live so the 4gb one should be enough. I just need to get him another controller and don't want to spend $40+ for it, lol. Any deals on those?

Also what would we need to add more memory to the 4gb one? I thought you could add a card or USB device? I'd like to use an external hard drive which we already have at home.

Got a controller at amazon for $35 yesterday. We also got the same deal you did with kinect, but through amazon with $50 credit. And are using it the same way you are. Id like to know the answer to the second question too

 

[Promomx2]

Got my ds the gb (he said it would be fine for him). I haven't wrapped it yet, but do I need to get a hdmi cable for it or does it come with all the cables that we need?

 

[girli565]

Got my ds the gb (he said it would be fine for him). I haven't wrapped it yet, but do I need to get a hdmi cable for it or does it come with all the cables that we need?

My husband's friend (who I go to when it's about stuff like this) said it needs an HDMI cable if you want it to be in HD. he told me that it was a special kind, something about high speed.

 

[pilesoflaundry]

I bought the Walmart BF bundle for $199, my husband just wants to play the shoot 'em up games and not download or play live so the 4gb one should be enough. I just need to get him another controller and don't want to spend $40+ for it, lol. Any deals on those?

Also what would we need to add more memory to the 4gb one? I thought you could add a card or USB device? I'd like to use an external hard drive which we already have at home.

If he wants to play battlefield or mw3 or anything like that they are memory hogs if he gets any of the expansion packs and they are very heavy graphics. Even if he doesn't play online, I don't know if the 4g would be enough HTH.

 

[HALEYSMOMMOM]

If he wants to play battlefield or mw3 or anything like that they are memory hogs if he gets any of the expansion packs and they are very heavy graphics. Even if he doesn't play online, I don't know if the 4g would be enough HTH.

But the question is, can you use a card or Usb device for more memory, or do you have to add an additional hard drive. I want that answer too

 

[pilesoflaundry]

But the question is, can you use a card or Usb device for more memory, or do you have to add an additional hard drive. I want that answer too

I know that . I was just suggesting even with extra memory that it still might not be enough. You can buy a new hard drive but it's more expensive than just buying the 250 itself and there are ways to hook an external hard drive up. But sometimes it doesn't see the "extra" memory because it's not an internal hard drive. Halo is one of those games, you need the 250 or it's just not going to work out.

This is a review from amazon for the 4g xbox

Don't make the same mistake I did -- the 4 GB version may seem like a good deal if you don't think you'll need a lot of space, but what they don't tell you is that some features REQUIRE an actual hard drive. You might think that a gig is a gig and it shouldn't make any difference whether it's on a disk or flash memory, but to the Xbox, they are not equivalent.

This means that unless you buy a hard drive (and it has to be one of the new 250 GB hard drives because the old ones are not compatible), you get no backwards compatibility with Xbox games, and some 360 games will arbitrarily block you from some features such as playing online or even installing updates or DLC, regardless of how much free space you have available. Basically, you can only use the internal storage (or a flash drive) to store full games, saves, or other media, but it's not the same as having a 4 GB hard drive. I wish someone had told me this before I bought mine; I foolishly assumed that the features would be identical and the only difference would be the amount of space, but now I have to buy a hard drive separately, adding up to more than it would have cost if I'd just bought the 250 GB model in the first place. Caveat emptor, indeed.

 

[HALEYSMOMMOM]

Ok thank you- lucky for us, no shooting games here