Well if it doesn't have a blu-ray drive but a larger hard drive it could work.
Since digital games are *generally* MSRP for a majority of the time, MS could make a killing off the royalities from each game sold digitally. So if say the person buys 5 games digitally at full MSRP, MS is already making their money back. I'd imagine someone buying the model will buy more then just 5 games over the life time. Forcing the consumer to go digital is defenitely going to help MS with their future plan as well as their bottom line.
It would suck for those that want to re-sell or watch blu-ray movies/dvds but that's about it. Oh and Skylanders since they don't sell it digitally. MS just needs to be more aggressive with their digital pricing ala Steam.
It's just that simple.
