Hidden Microsoft Strategy ?

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ckmlb said:
The majority of 360 owners have 20 gb hard drives or less. If they were going to focus on selling downloadable movies they should have thought of that before making the hard drive so small.

I don't think 360 movie downloads are that big. Sony should be starting something similar soon especially since they can put Sony Pictures movies on there cause it's their own and the PS3 hard drives start at 60 gb.

 MS realized that digital distribution is going to be a long, hard battle. It was more cost-effective for them to eliminate HDMI, keep the HDD small, keep the price down, and get into more homes initially than to attempt something more along the lines of what Sony is doing now. They're gearing up for the NextBox and that's when we'll see massive HDDs and storage options for all of the digital distribution. Right now it's too much too soon and they'd end up turning more customers away by forcing an overly expensive console just to push their online distribution program.

I still think that every 360 should have included a HDD but that's really another discussion.