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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2817130" data-attributes="member: 4779">Do you do any downloading from the Marketplace?  That's what will eat up space quickly.For myself, my TV looks really good displaying a 720p signal so I like to download movie trailers like X3, MI:3 and PotC2 that look good on my PC, but the picture is smaller and the audio not so hot.  Those downloads are about a 1/2 gig each.  Same with game downloads - I believe the GRAW demo was almost a gig.  Same with the Tomb Raider: Legend demo.  Yeah, you could just delete stuff as you go, but that's annoying.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />And, the Xbox Live Arcade is a fantastic feature and must be a HUGE moneymaker for Microsoft.  Nintendo and Sony would be fools to not follow suit and offer a similar service.  Many of the games cost only a few bucks and are really fun.  It is certainly the wave of the future and the way games will eventually be distributed.  I can't wait until I can pre-order the newest Metal Gear game and it is downloaded to my PS3 so I can play it on midnight of the launch date.  It worked for Half-Life 2 and a console has tons of encryptions and protections and is considerably harder to hack as you'd have to pop the case.Bottom line: I can see wanting a larger HD for my 360 within a year.  The fact that just a demo can eat up so much space and that games will be designed for discs that hold 40 gigs of space on the PS3 and I'll be wanting the larger HD for it after my 360 experience.</blockquote>

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