80GB Xbox 360 really on the horizon?

At a recent Microsoft event to promote upcoming games and the new Video-On-Demand service, a retail Xbox 360 unit was shown with an 80GB hard drive installed. While it’s 20GB short of the previously rumoured 100GB hard drive, it still offers a fourfold increase in storage capacity for users to download their new content onto.

This time, it’s not a hoax. The fact that they so easily allowed the “70GB Free” to be seen should be a good indicator that one is on the way. Finally, I may be able to download a new demo without clearning the last one off first!