Why should I buy a premium 360?

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disolitude said:

I'm looking to sell my premium and get an elite...and a friend of mine would rather buy a new Arcade than my Premium with 20 downloaded games and 2 controllers. (same price)

All he cares about is Rockaband, guitar hero and few Xbox live games so he thinks he doesn't need harddrive and olnie features...but once I tell him Rockband downloadable tracks will not be available to him, im sure he will change his mind.

If you get the Elite you can transfer your profile/downloaded games over to the new HD by requesting the cable from MS. That's what I did when I bought the Elite to replace my old Core w/20gb hd.

To the OP: The arcade sounds like the perfect model for you. It comes w/the wireless controller and a memory card for game saves and even includes some free XBLA games. (The old Core 360 came with a wired controller, no memory card, and no XBLA games :( ) You should definitely pick it up and like others have said if you really want the HD later you can always pick up a used one off of Ebay or something. :)