It confused me at the time of the 360's launch why the core lacked a Hard Drive and it confuses me now. This maybe wasn't as big a deal as it will be in the future when PS3 games become more powerful and 360 ports become harder and harder to acheive without this to use as a development tool.
Everybody said that the Wii is not next gen due to it's lack of power and it's lack of hard drive but to basically disable the hard drive as a development tool cos devs have to adhere a model out there without a HDD when their own last gen model had a HDD as standard is just madness.
Even if Microsoft had said to developers okay you can make some games assume you need a Hard Drive but you have to get our consent before you make it and build the Core model so you can plug in any 3rd party Hard Drive or shove an SD slot in it so the user could go and get a 2Gig card for those games that require an install.
There were other options on the table and it bafflers me personally.
