seems pretty reasonable if u ask me, everyone has atleast 1 external hdd. im sure some sony fanboys will try and warp this into something bad, but ofcourse sony has the same situation with its 20 gig version and its downloadable ps2 games (same size as dvd movies) and ps3 games (who knows how big those will be) and the game installs yet they praise the fact they can just use a external hdd. so basically both systems are on the same boat with external drives wich i like. i hope ms allows in the future the use of wireless hard drives on a network.

im not buyin extra anything. i allready spent 500+ on 360 when i was supposed to only spend 299.

i was told buy microsoft "where i bought it from" all i needed was the core system

bought that and a game was around 350 all together

then they say itll over heat buy the intercooler thats another 20 so then its 370 then i cant save games so either buy the hardrive or a memory card so i buy the hardrive now its 470 gotta buy the charger for the controller so it dont go dead all the time and have to buy batterys another 11 for the rechargable battery and 10 for the charger so now im at 490 then you gotta pay for xbox live now at 550 then if you want to play 2 players another remote so now at 600. and now if i wanna download movies and not erase them so i dont have to keep buyin them over and over again i gotta buy more $100 hardrives? and people say the ps3 is to much money hell thisis ridiculos i like xbox more them ps but man seriously. ps3 buy just the system and u get everything idea is way better then tryin to keep skamin people with " we say these accessorys are optional even though we KNOW you will need them anyway" idea

so your blaiming ms for the fact you bought optional accesroes all on day 1? i bought the core 299 day 1 and a hdd 99 for a 399 system, 5 months later i bought a wireless controller i dont use the play and charge kit since i use recharchable batteries on all my electronics. i saved quite a bit i prefer to spend large amounts of cash in installments rather than upfront thats why credit cards are so popular ;). and you have to buy a hard drive just like you do on the ps3 so either deal with it or get a wii. the ps3 will require you to use alot more space on the disk than the xbox, how big do u think psp and ps2 game downloads will be? ill give u an idea a ps2 game is around 4-8 gigs. and ps3 downloadble games are around 12-25 gigs do the math on how long a hdd will last you.

the team Xtender kit can already do it.



The real concern is running backups off the HDD.

One of my few complaints about the 360 is the tiny hard drive. Even the PS2 came with a 40gb drive although it was useless. There's no way I would buy another unless they came out with a bigger one. Microsoft NEEDS a bigger one at leas 60gb although 80 or 100 could one up sony's. That and a friggin HDMI cable, dammit

Nobody is saying we should download these movies and TV shows. I have a pretty good guess that Microsoft is making a larger HDD. In the meantime, I guess having another HDD is okay. I'm still a little mad though.