Xbox 360 250GB Console

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Arguably it’s a greater boon than the console’s size-reduction – housing that oversized unit inside an AV cabinet wasn’t the easiest task. Later versions of the Xbox 360 S included an updated controller featuring a new control stick design and a transforming d-pad. The Kinect was released several months after the Xbox 360 S, but the console was often marketed and bundled with the accessory.

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Idling at the dashboard or watching a couple of videos downloaded from the Marketplace the system was inaudible. There was one more thing, too… oh yes: you’ll be surprised to hear that this Xbox 360 has a 250GB hard drive. Not only is this much more convenient than attaching an adaptor, it’s also a significant cost saving considering how ungodly expensive the Xbox 360 Wi-Fi adaptor was. Gone is the attractively understated matt finish of both the original white Xbox 360 and the later, blacker, Xbox 360 Elite.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. The new design carried forward the Xbox 360 emblems featured on the disk drive and side of the console. This is the reason you benefit from a minimum 1-year warranty with the purchase of a refurbished device at Back Market. The power and eject buttons have also been changed from physical buttons to touch-sensitive buttons with this revision. The proprietary AV port remains, as does an HDMI port, but the digital optical audio output is now on the console itself, although it can still be accessed via the AV adaptor is you so choose.

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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. While the hardware layout has changed, the core specs of the Xbox 360 250GB remain entirely unchanged. The reduced power draw couples with much improved ventilation to deliver one of the Xbox 360 250GB’s biggest improvements over the previous models.

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. The model at the announcement was described as being much smaller than past models, featuring a 250GB hard drive and a built in Wireless N 2. The Xbox 360 Slim, the Xbox 360 Slimline the Xbox 360 S or even what Microsoft has actually decided to go with: the Xbox 360 250GB. 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. Around the back there are now three USB ports – two more than previously – alongside a dedicated port for connecting a Kinect kit once available.