I really really don't understand the point of the Elite, basically instead of dropping the price and really nailing Sony to the wall they raised it up to match them. The whole using proprietary HDD's that cost 5x as much as normal HDD's is outrageous, too. Hopefully the Wii gets off its butt and starts allowing any external HDD to be attached via USB and used as a "memory card"--but at least they allow *any* SD card to be used in the slot instead of just the Nintendo-branded ripoffs.