If you start liking DLC, USB sticks can become quite expensive to store large amounts of data, even compared to MS proprietary drives. It's a lose-lose situation.

20GB is fine that is the 4GB on-board and 16 GB stick retail £18 and I can buy me a few of them before not having the built in drive becomes a drama. I know because I had a 20GB launch console, Like I said though I doubt they give it much thought.

I don't understand where people get the notion that 4 gigs or even 16 is enough. My Rock Band DLC alone almost takes up that much space.

For some yes, for others no.

I have a 120GB console and I have to replace the HDD in the near future due to lack of space. Yeah, I'm a PS3 user but Xbox 360 is not so different.

But your not buying an Arcade. If you are buying an arcade you are making a comprimise, this means if you want to download in excess of 120GB data then you are going to have to do some serious juggling. That said I would question why you purchased an Arcade model. Now at some point you may feel you need a hard drive but that could be 2 years from now. Like I said most people buying an arcade do not give this much thought.

Quite obviously, from sales numbers of the various versions, 20GB aren't so fine for a large share of users. Anyway, if MS decided to price that 250GB HDD so high, there must be people ready to buy it, so much the better for MS...

I do wonder who are buying them so soon after launch but I guess their is always at least one muppet for every ten numpties.

I just can't see the 360's sales droping down to wii ps3 levels any time soon will the gap get closer certainly but for all you expecting a sub 70k week for the 360 within the next month i dunno if its gonna happen.

I don't know much about Europe but from the sounds of it the new arcade won't be avaliable everywhere ( including the uk the 360s biggest market in this region?) until next week.

So I doubt sales will decline at all and maybe even see a modest boost next week and then three weeks after that halo launches right? So I doubt the sales will decline to sub 70k before reach does come out and the 360 gets a boost from its release.

For the average gamer 16 gigs is plenty.