Xbox 4 Gb or 250 Gb ?

[melhookv12]

Asking for a friend, who is looking to buy for their son for Xmas.
What are the advantages or disadvantages of either one. The 4Gb is £20 cheaper, and you have to buy a controller with the 250 Gb, so in fact the 4Gb is closer to £50 cheaper.

Which one is better and for what reasons ?

[Tophatron]

I'd say go for the 250Gb one - 4Gb isn't much space at all for downloading DLC/Games and although you can use USB storage having the 250Gb drive makes everything much more straightforward.

[vladcjelli]

melhookv12 said:

Asking for a friend, who is looking to buy for their son for Xmas.
What are the advantages or disadvantages of either one. The 4Gb is £20 cheaper, and you have to buy a controller with the 250 Gb, so in fact the 4Gb is closer to £50 cheaper.

Which one is better and for what reasons ?

Why do you have to buy a controller? The 250gb comes with one.

The 4gb will work fine for a lot of games, but some require an amount of hard drive space to run. For example, GTA 5 needs about 8gb, so wouldn't work.

Apparently, you can use a USB flash drive up to 32gb as a surrogate, but then these cost money too.

Just get the 250gb and never have to worry about available space.

[Jasandjules]

4GB will be used up in no time at all. Get the 250. Unless you are able to upgrade the HD yourself cheaply and easily.

[pastrana72]

250GB he will need the storage for DLC.

[Kev T360]

as all others have said. 4gb is tiny. a few compulsory updates and a few DLCs would use all that. GTA 5 uses over 7gb just to install. also you do get a controller with the 250gb, they wouldnt sell a console with no controller.