There have been numerous rumors about a new, larger hard drives for the Xbox 360. Some people posted photos of a video feed of the dashboard showing 80 or so GB free, speculating about a 100GB drive model.

Supposedly, these were all fake. Understandably, Microsoft wouldn’t want to kill the sales of all the existing retail 20GB hard drive units by announcing larger drives a lot of time in advance.

But there was another accidental leak just today. Take a look at this Channel9 video. While showing off the capabilities of the XNA Studio on a “retail unit” (the presenter, Frank Savage, made sure to repeat this several times – this was not a developer’s kit) it’s obvious that this “retail unit” has 60GB free!

Here’s a frame some 35 minutes into the presentation. The camera is rather close to the screen – which is 1080p by the way – so there’s no mistake (click for original size screenshot). If you need more persuasion, just download the video and see for yourself.

I guess it doesn’t make sense to sell 4.3GB HD movies and store them on a measly 20GB after all, doesn’t it?