Like the original XBOX, all systems should have come with a hard drive. Everyone knows it. Shit, even Sony knew it.
$20 for a 20GB drive? Jesus H. Christ, how 'bout you just throw it in and charge $10 over the Arcade SKU price and do away with the NON HDD variant? Be done with it already.
They just did what fit the market - people were willing to buy consoles with hard drives, and they supplied them. If people are willing to buy deficient products, why not sell them cheap stuff and then the auxiliary parts when they recognize their mistake?
2001: MS releases Xbox with built-in HDD 2005: Xbox costs MS over $4B 2006: Sony releases PS3 with built-in HDD 2008: PS3 costs Sony over $3B so far
Now you know why the Core/Arcade exists, and why MS are charging outrageously for the add-ons. Yeah OK, it's over-simplified, but MS did say the HDD was the biggest non-reducible cost in the original Xbox. And tbh, compared to PS3, the lack of a standard HDD doesn't seem to have harmed the games much.
Well I agree that its a good thing on Microsoft's part to basically give away drives to the Core users so they too can use the new interface. Part of me still says this is Microsoft's way of getting ride of the stacks of 20GB drives they have left over from the 60GB Pro transition as well as getting a nice PR boost.
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Microsoft is doing things right with Xbox these days.
I like this side of Microsoft.
ahahahaha.....
Stupid core/arcade SKU.
Like the original XBOX, all systems should have come with a hard drive. Everyone knows it. Shit, even Sony knew it.
$20 for a 20GB drive? Jesus H. Christ, how 'bout you just throw it in and charge $10 over the Arcade SKU price and do away with the NON HDD variant? Be done with it already.
No kidding... I'm tired of seeing a non-HDD SKU...
I just wonder how many Xbox360's the update is gonna RROD and brick.
@Flashpoint:
Its equivalent to the number of meaningful and worthwhile comments you have made.
They just did what fit the market - people were willing to buy consoles with hard drives, and they supplied them. If people are willing to buy deficient products, why not sell them cheap stuff and then the auxiliary parts when they recognize their mistake?
2001: MS releases Xbox with built-in HDD
2005: Xbox costs MS over $4B
2006: Sony releases PS3 with built-in HDD
2008: PS3 costs Sony over $3B so far
Now you know why the Core/Arcade exists, and why MS are charging outrageously for the add-ons. Yeah OK, it's over-simplified, but MS did say the HDD was the biggest non-reducible cost in the original Xbox. And tbh, compared to PS3, the lack of a standard HDD doesn't seem to have harmed the games much.
Well I agree that its a good thing on Microsoft's part to basically give away drives to the Core users so they too can use the new interface. Part of me still says this is Microsoft's way of getting ride of the stacks of 20GB drives they have left over from the 60GB Pro transition as well as getting a nice PR boost.
Some of us were on a tighter budget (and still are).
Shame there's no EU thing about this yet - please update us when the EU gets the same treatment, Engagdet =].