Hi, I'm sure anyone looking to buy an xBox 360 knows something about how there are two versions of the console. One costs £209 and is called Core, one is called Premium and costs £289. So the high end one costs £70 more.
(prices have recently dropped by about a tenner so prices may vary from what is here)

Anyway as you can guess by the price the Premium version is better.

Always remember this - The low end one can be upgraded by buying accessorys to be identical to the Premium, however you will spend alot more, and only the premium has a silver coloured DVD drive.


Heres the main differences

• Premium included 20GB hard drive, Core does not. If you get Core and want to save your games you will need to either buy a memory card, or the hard drive. The hard drive costs £69 on its own so basically Core + Hard Drive = Same Price as Premium (give or take a few pence!). Also you need the hard drive for any hope of playing xBox 1 games.
• Ethernet Cable included in Premium. You only need one of these if you want to give your 360 a wired connection to your home ethernet ready network. These only cost a few quid anyway.
  
• Silver Finish - Only on Premium, the only thing that cant be upgraded on Core to make it the same as Premium
• Xbox Live Headset - Only included with Premium. Costs about £15 separatly and is required to chat to people on Xbox Live.
• Wireless Controller included with Premium. Wired included with Core.
• High Definition - These cables are only included with Premium, if you want High Def with Core you will need to buy extra cables (Premium will work with normal TVs too!)

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So now you know that, you should also know that only certain Xbox 1 games will work on a 360. And to do this you will need a hard drive and either a connection to xBox Live on your 360 or you will need to make a update CD using your computer. To make a CD go to the xBox website (cant put links in guides). If you are connected to xBox live, just put in a compatible xBox 1 game and the update will be automatically downloaded.

So which games will work. Well heres the list as of 22 October 06. More are being added every so often

LIST NOW UPDATED FOR DECEMBER 2006 UPDATE
   

# 4x4 EVO 2
# AirForce Delta Storm
# Aggressive Inline™ New
# Alias™
# Aliens versus Predator™ Extinction
# All-Star Baseball™ 2003 Updated
# All-Star Baseball™ 2005 New
# Amped®: Freestyle Snowboarding
# Amped® 2
# Aquaman: Battle of Atlantis New
# Army Men®: Sarge's War™
# Atari® Anthology™
# ATV: Quad Power Racing 2™
# Bad Boys 2
# Big Mutha Truckers
# Baldur's Gate™: Dark Alliance™ II
# Barbarian
# Barbie™ Horse Adventures™ Wild Horse Rescue™
# Batman Begins™
# Battle Engine Aquila
# Battlestar Galactica™
# BLACK™
# BMX XXX™
# Brute Force™
# Buffy the Vampire Slayer™: Chaos Bleeds
# Burnout® 3: Takedown™ New
# Cabela's® Big Game Hunter™ 2005 Adventures
# Cabela’s® Dangerous Hunts™
# Cabela’s® Outdoor Adventures™ 06
# Cabela's® Deer Hunt™ 2005 Season
# Cabela's® Deer Hunt™ 2004 Season
# Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth™ Updated
# Call of Duty™: Finest Hour™
# Casino
# Catwoman™ New
# Chicago Enforcer
# Circus Maximus
# Close Combat: First to Fight
# Colin McRae Rally 4
# Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers™
# Commandos 2: Men of Courage™
# Conflict: Desert Storm
# Constantine™
# Counter-Strike™ New
# Crash Twinsanity™
# Crash Nitro Kart™2 Updated
# Crimson Skies®: High Road to Revenge™
# Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon™
# Dark Angel
# Darkwatch™
# Dead or Alive® 3
# Dead to Rights® New
# Deathrow
# Digimon® Rumble Arena® 2 Updated
# Dinotopia2
# DOOM 3®
# Drake™
# Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
# Egg Mania™: Eggstreme Madness
# ESPN Major League Baseball New
# ESPN MLS ExtraTime 2002
# Euro 2004
# F1 2001
# Fable®
# Fable®: The Lost Chapters™
# Fairly Odd Parents: Breakin' da Rules
# Fatal Frame™
# Fatal Frame™ II: Crimson Butterfly DIRECTOR'S CUT New
# FIFA Soccer 2003
# FIFA Soccer 2004
# FIFA STREET
# Fight Night 2004
# FlatOut™
# Ford Mustang
# Ford vs. Chevy Updated
# Forza Motorsport™
# Freaky Flyers New
# Frogger Beyond™
# Futurama™
# Fuzion Frenzy®
# Gauntlet®: Seven Sorrows™ New
# Genma Onimusha
# Goblin Commander™: Unleash the Horde
# Grabbed by the Ghoulies™
# Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy
# Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
# Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas™
# Gravity Games Bike: Street. Vert. Dirt.
# Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder
# Half-Life® 2 Updated
# Halo®
# Halo® 2
# Halo® 2 Multiplayer Map Pack
# Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™
# Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone™
# He-Man: Defender of Grayskull
# Hitman: Contracts™
# House of the Dead 3
# IHRA Drag Racing Sportsman Edition
# IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005™
# IndyCar® Series 2005 New
# Intellivision Lives
# Jade Empire™3
# James Bond 007™: NightFire™
# Judge Dredd®: Dredd vs. Death™
# Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
# Kabuki™ Warriors Updated
# Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
# kill.switch
# LEGO® Star Wars®
# LEGO® Star Wars™ II: The Original Trilogy New
# Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events™
# Links® 2004 New
# LOONS—The Fight for Fame
# Magatama Updated
# Manhunt
# Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX™ 2
# Max Payne
# Max Payne® 2
# Maximum Chase New
# Medal of Honor European Assault™
# Medal of Honor™ Frontline
# Medal of Honor™ Rising Sun
# Mega Man® Anniversary Collection
# Metal Arms™: Glitch in the System
# MicroMachines
# Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing
# Minority Report
# MLB SlugFest 20-04
# Monster Garage™
# Mortal Kombat® Deception™ Updated
# MTV Music Generator™ 3
# MTX: Mototrax™ New
# Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit
# MX vs. ATV Unleashed New
# MX World Tour™: Featuring Jamie Little
# Namco Museum™
# Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection New
# NBA LIVE 2004
# Need For Speed™ Underground 2
# NFL Blitz 2002
# NFL Blitz 2003
# NFL Blitz 2004
# NHL® 2004
# NHL Hitz™ 2003
# Ninja Gaiden®
# Ninja Gaiden® Black
# Outlaw Golf 2
# Outlaw Tennis New
# Outlaw Volleyball
# Over the Hedge™ New
# Phantom Crash™
# Pinball Hall of Fame™
# Pitfall®: The Lost Expedition™
# Predator Concrete Jungle™
# Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™
# Pro Evolution Soccer 5
# Pro Race Driver™
# Pump It Up™: Exceed
# Pure Pinball
# Puyo Pop Fever2
# Quantum Redshift®
# RalliSport Challenge
# Rayman Arena
# Raze's Hell™
# Red Dead Revolver
# Red Faction® II
# RedCard™ 2003
# Richard Burns Rally New
# Robotech: Battlecry
# Rocky™ Legends
# Rogue Ops
# Rogue Trooper™ New
# Samurai Jack
# Samurai Warriors™
# Scooby Doo!™ Night of 100 Frights
# Scrapland
# SEGA GT™ 2002
# Serious Sam New
# Shadow The Hedgehog™
# Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures
# ShellShock: Nam '67™
# Shincho Mahjong New
# Sid Meier's Pirates!® New
# Silent Hill® 4: The Room
# Smashing Drive New
# Sneakers™ 5 Updated
# Sniper Elite
# Soccer Slam
# Sonic Heroes™
# Sonic Mega Collection™ Plus
# Spawn® Armageddon
# Speed Kings™
# Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy™
# Spider-Man™
# Splat Magazine Renegade Paintball
# SpongeBob SquarePants™: Battle for Bikini Bottom
# SpyHunter® 2
# SpyHunter:® Nowhere to Run™ New
# Spyro™ A Hero's Tail
# SSX 3
# Stake™
# Star Wars Battlefront™
# Star Wars Battlefront™ II
# Star Wars®: Episode III Revenge of the Sith™
# Star Wars® Jedi Knight®: Jedi Academy™
# Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™
# Star Wars® Knights of the Old Republic® II: The Sith Lords™
# State of Emergency
# Street Racing Syndicate™
# Stubbs the Zombie™ in Rebel without a Pulse™
# Super Bubble Pop
# Super Monkey Ball™ Deluxe
# SX Superstar™
# Taz Wanted New
# Tecmo Classic Arcade
# Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™
# Test Drive®: Eve of Destruction
# Tetris Worlds™4
# The Great Escape
# The Hulk™
# The Incredible Hulk™: Ultimate Destruction
# The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer Updated
# The Legend of Spyro™: A New Beginning New
# The Lord of the Rings™: The Return of the King™
# The Punisher™
# The Simpsons™ Hit and Run™
# The Simpsons™ Road Rage
# The Suffering New
# The Terminator™ Dawn of Fate
# The Thing™
# Thief: Deadly Shadows™
# Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
# Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon™ 2
# Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon™: Island Thunder™ New
# Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® 2 Summit Strike
# Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3
# Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Black Arrow™
# Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
# Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® Chaos Theory™
# Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® Pandora Tomorrow™
# Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
# Tony Hawk's Pro Skater™ 4
# Tony Hawk's Underground 2
# Torino 2006™ Winter Olympics New
# Tork™: Prehistoric Punk™
# Toxic Grind
# Trigger Man™ New
# True Crime: Streets of LA New
# Ty The Tasmanian Tiger™
# Ty the Tasmanian Tiger™ 2: Bush Rescue™
# Ty the Tasmanian Tiger™ 3: Night of the Quinkan
# Urban Freestyle Soccer
# Vexx™
# Vietcong™: Purple Haze New
# Volvo: Drive for Life
# World Soccer Winning Eleven 9
# World Series® Baseball 2K3
# Worms 4 Mayhem
# Worms™ Forts: Under Siege
# Wrath Unleashed™ New
# WWE™ Raw™ 2
# X2 Wolverine's Revenge New
# XIII
# Yourself!Fitness™
# Zapper™

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