it was MS biggest blunder, a complete step back from the original xbox. they could have offered the option for people, and made the cheap one a 20 and the normal a 120, the elite a 240. not forced dumb consumers to buy crappy memory cards, and allowed devs to decided if a game needed a small install for streaming or to decompress zipp saved levels or something. honestly it hurt more than rrod, it hurt potential. no wifi is a minor inconvenience, does not effect game play, even wired controlers would not have been as bad as leaving hd out.
to qualify this i am against multiple skus outside of pack in changes, its a waste, its confusing to consumers, who for the majority of them can barely operate a computer much less understand the difference between multiple hardware skus... looking at you too sony you started this retardation with slim models.
but back to the point, the hd is being held hostage by pencil pushers to use as a barganing chip to get 100 bucks out of people. this was probably pushed out of the control of the xbox dev team as soon as the came up with detachable hd, so a gamer could take it on the move... then they destroyed it even more with the implementation of copyright protection on files, even game saves... way to go MS ..... sigh
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