Thanks for the info for those that work for gamespot. Again I just happen to stumble on it and based on what I saw it added to the core going bye bye. I am with the core needs go croud as I don't want future 360 games to be gimped because the developers had to take into account the core. To be honest the only problem I see the 360 having is the lack of space of the dvd 9 so hopefully the hardrive can make that a non-issue. I know many who argue is not a big deal because of compression etc but it is just my only worry and we will see if it is an issue or not :). In the end it won't matter to me personally as I truly enjoyed my 360 and it has always been worth every penny for all the gaming I have done in the past year.