You forget the mandatory Kinect

The cheaper console is simply a bragging right for a lot of core gamer tbh honest. I would have shelled out for a $600-1000 console without blinking an eye if it met my requirement and gamers have proven in the past that they will go that far with he N64, Wii, PS1 and PS2 stock shortage and subsequent price gauge.

The price point however will be relevant for more mainstream consumers and will likely increase sale, which can leads to better support from developers / publishers.

But yea its happiness by association, much like the kickstarter phenomenon and just basic human nature: we like betting on a winning horse. :)

Geeks will be geeks, we love shit like this :P

But you're missing his point. It's not the same thing as having it INSIDE the console. It's still having two seperate hard drives. 

On the PS4 you can replace the hard drive inside the machine, and you can attatch an external HDD to the machine. The PS4 can do both where as the Xbox One (as it says in the name) can only do one. 

Also, as mentioned in this thread there are numerous advantages to being able to replace the internal hard drive when compared to just being able to attatch an external hard drive. 

yeah i know but having psn+ is not a bad thing because they said we will be getting free games....games like drive club and other indie titles every month

so how is that a bad thing?

good news i hope they make it easy like with the ps3 hard drive 1 tb here i come

Good, good. Though, I doubt I'll ever have to do it. My 80gb PS3 is only a little over half full.
Fun to look at all the damage control going on here though ^^

500Gb is more than enough!