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can a Xbox 360 arcade, play online? (Xbox live)

Getting an Xbox, and dunno which one to get, i dont really need the pro, as i have a PC. and i just want 1 for gaming, but if the Xbox 360 Arcade can not play online, it is no good,

so can the xbox 360 arcade play online?
 
yes, quite able to ......... you can even d/load some arcade games from XBLA (as long as they are small enough to fit on your memory card). AFAIK, there are only two or three games that actually 'need' the HDD in order to play online ..... the rest, A for away ;):D
 
scofield said:
so a arcade can't play HDD? what ever that is?
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U can use the memory card on the Arcade to store your profile and game saves.

It can use Live but you are limited on the downloads you can do. For instance, the demo's of most bif titles coming up are 950MB. That won't compute on a 256MB memory card.

The arcade also doesnt come with an ethernet cable or Live headset. Those are seperate purchases.

If you want to play on Live and enjoy it to its fullest ... get a Pro.

Offline gaming ... Arcade will suffice :D
 
does anyone know how much bandwidth it uses for say,,,, fifa 08 online? to play matches, is it a lot?
 
1. Arcade can play on Live Perfectly well (There's 1 game with an issue)
2. Premium is better value in the long run if you plan on playing online (Maps, patches, Live Arcade Games, demo's and Beta's).
3. I hope you've got a 7 day return policy on that PS3 because if you don't know what an "HDD" is I almost guarantee you got duped, and are going to be wondering why you didn't get the 360 within a month ;) (Or two, Gears is out 07/11)

EDIT: Sorry if that seems harsh, but some sales troll just made an extra R300 at your expense.
 
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hey guys
many believe that we will never get xbox live support
there are a few guys saying this is cuz of our lack of broadband
how ever i believe soon we will see suport as 2010 has done somthing good brought heavy broadband infrastructure in development

tell me ur thoughts
 
I think you may be right. Microsoft has always maintained that they intend bringing it here and out sales penetration and adoption rate is very favourable.

They're probably a bit caught up with the whole NXE launch, but the fact that they've made Live Subs international makes me think they're opening up a lot more.
 
It would help to have local support and cheaper high bandwidth/uncapped broadband.

Until then I'm a happy "UK resident" from "Liverpool, England'.
 
Kage said:
No??? :eek:
I would have thought that they would have blocks for certain places, like Wall Street, Empire State Building, Buckingham Palace etc etc etc. :D
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How could they, who's to say I don't really stay there *cough* *cough* ...

I'm not saying a word! (But the Ficus can't keep it's mouth shut . . . ;) )
 
In all honesty having local live is not going to improve anything for local gamers over using UK or US accounts. the benefit is

1. Be able to buy subs in store
- But buying online is already cheaper and easier

2. No blocked content
- Occasionally stuff gets blocked (95%+ of all content is available), but we've even found a way around that already.

I think MS should just declare an "international" locale for everyone outside of the states and be done with it.
 
doobiwan said:
In all honesty having local live is not going to improve anything for local gamers over using UK or US accounts. the benefit is

1. Be able to buy subs in store
- But buying online is already cheaper and easier

2. No blocked content
- Occasionally stuff gets blocked (95%+ of all content is available), but we've even found a way around that already.

I think MS should just declare an "international" locale for everyone outside of the states and be done with it.
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And maybe we can take part in a competition or 2 :P

What I'd like to see though, is Microsoft putting some money into using a CDN network like Akamai (IS is a mirror) so we get some decent speeds when downloading content. And maybe with some clever routing we could use local only bandwidth for those downloads.
 
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