I wouldnt say I would have preferred it as it would have made the Xbox much more expensive to produce and therefore a much poorer choice as a mainstream gaming system.
However if it was a token cost increase (say 5 percent of total) I wouldn't mind having it.
That said my family get HD movies via other sources and with me not being much of a film buff the media side is not at all missed.
It would be fairer to say I wish all X box's had come with HDD as standard then we could just install the game and the media size would not be a constraint in any way.







