10 Biggest Xbox Fails Microsoft Wants You To Forget

5. Xbox 360 Without Hard Drives, Wi-Fi Or Online Access

The basic 'Core' models of the Xbox 360 were cheap upon release. Very cheap. At a paltry $300, it felt like a steal to gamers, until they actually looked at what was contained inside. The Core version of the Xbox 360 came without a hard drive (presumably gamers at the time still thought that this wouldn't be an issue, having been used to memory cards until that point), no Wi-Fi, and of course no access to online gaming unless you paid for an Xbox Live subscription. It also came with a wired controller rather than a flashy new wireless one, and no new-gen video disc player (but hey, an external HD-DVD one would only set you back $200!). Paying for these mostly-essential extras would add at least another $150 to the Xbox 360 price, and the majority of gamers didn't realise that their Core consoles to be virtually unusable without things like hard drives and an online subscription. The Xbox 360 Core was the most piecemeal console ever released, requiring connectors and wires for all its little extras, making it a tentacled monstrosity of a console once you got all the bits. Add the HD-DVD player to the mix, and you're looking at the X360 costing around well over $500, with number of wires and cables sticking out of it making it look like it was on a life support machine.