Hello! My son currently plays Minecraft on his laptop but he would love an Xbox too. Will a 4gb one be enough to start off with? The only other game he would play is Castle Miner Z so I really don't want to spend the extra money right now when the Xbox will only be used for 2 games. My plan would be for him to save up enough money to buy an upgraded hard drive in the future. Thanks for you responses as I am so new to all this!
Castleminer Z takes up 30.93 MB (thousandths of a GB) and Minecraft takes up 156 KB (millionths of a GB... although according to another thread I've seen, the most recent update for Minecraft was 30 MB, so I'll go by that)
Total will be about 60 MB or about .06 GB, not counting game saves. With a few MB a save, that shouldn't matter much and I think 4 GB should be more than enough for both games.
EDIT: if anyone wants to know, I got my numbers from Xbox.com
Castleminer Z takes up 30.93 MB (thousandths of a GB) and Minecraft takes up 156 KB (millionths of a GB... although according to another thread I've seen, the most recent update for Minecraft was 30 MB, so I'll go by that)
Total will be about 60 MB or about .06 GB, not counting game saves. With a few MB a save, that shouldn't matter much and I think 4 GB should be more than enough for both games.
Minecraft is 113.21 MB according to the Marketplace.
It should be ample. My Minecraft folder on my Xbox takes up 348 MB of space:
The game itself takes up 114 MB and the Title Update takes up 30 MB (and the game deletes previous TUs when it downloads a new one). The Birthday Skin Pack file is 104 KB and there is a Minecraft Save Info file for every user that has created a world on that Xbox (or perhaps who has played in a Minecraft world). It grows a little bit depending on, I think, how many worlds that player is involved in. The largest one i have on these files is about 192 KB. The rest of the space is taken up with gamesave files, which mine range from 3 MB through to 19 MB depending on how much of the world has been explored and developed.
1GB is a 1000 mb so 30mb cant be thousandths of a GB, 156KB is the skin packs not the game
but yes 4GB is more than enough for MC and CM-Z
1. I was saying that a Megabyte was a thousanth of a Gigabyte, so instead of saying 30 megabytes, I was also saying 30 thousandths of a gigabyte.
2. I was doing it quickly because I was in the middle of something, but that's what it said on Xbox.com and that's what I went with. I knew it looked strange...
2. I was doing it quickly because I was in the middle of something, but that's what it said on Xbox.com and that's what I went with. I knew it looked strange...
You must have looked at a Skin Pack and not the actual game...
Thank you all so much for the help! All this computer and minecraft stuff is a foreign language I just cannot get a handle on but as long as my 9 year gets it I will figure it out eventually!
Even though you already have your answer, I just wanted to add that I bought a 4gb xbox and I have been using it for minecraft for a few months now no problem.
Total will be about 60 MB or about .06 GB, not counting game saves. With a few MB a save, that shouldn't matter much and I think 4 GB should be more than enough for both games.
EDIT: if anyone wants to know, I got my numbers from Xbox.com
The game itself takes up 114 MB and the Title Update takes up 30 MB (and the game deletes previous TUs when it downloads a new one). The Birthday Skin Pack file is 104 KB and there is a Minecraft Save Info file for every user that has created a world on that Xbox (or perhaps who has played in a Minecraft world). It grows a little bit depending on, I think, how many worlds that player is involved in. The largest one i have on these files is about 192 KB. The rest of the space is taken up with gamesave files, which mine range from 3 MB through to 19 MB depending on how much of the world has been explored and developed.
+1 and a high five for basic math skillz
1. I was saying that a Megabyte was a thousanth of a Gigabyte, so instead of saying 30 megabytes, I was also saying 30 thousandths of a gigabyte.
2. I was doing it quickly because I was in the middle of something, but that's what it said on Xbox.com and that's what I went with. I knew it looked strange...
People have bought PS3's for just one game title. Ones with less replay value even.
Not bashing PS3 (i own one), but paying $600 when it was new, just so you could play an exclusive title is an expensive proposition.
Paying $220 + tax for MC360 looks like a bargain to me ($200 arcade unit + game).