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Michael Pachter, the controversial video game analyst from Wedbush Morgan Securities has predicted during his speech at the fourth annual Ayzenberg A-List Summit 2012 that Sony and Microsoft will ship their next gen of consoles with HDD, and more specifically models with only 4GB of storage space. I think it would make sense for both companies to release a cheap version of their consoles for the casual market while selling hardcore gamers more expensive models with larger HDD, specially with the digital game market is growing rapidly and will play a very important part during next generation life-cycle.
Another interesting tidbit from Pachter is Nintendo will release the WiiU without any hard drive. Maybe Nintendo will sell HDDs separately and only ship one model of the console (8GB of onboard flash memory) to sell it at a very cheap price to capture the casual market? Perhaps. Microsoft used the same strategy when they were marketing the arcade model for $199 and worked wonders for them.
http://www.vgarabia.com/2012/02/25/pachter-ps4-and-xbox-next-will-ship-with-4gb-models-wii-u-wont-ship-with-any-hdd/#comments
