The Arcades have RCA cables, but have a wireless controller.

Not really. You can play Left 4 Dead, Forza 3, Halo ODST, Fable II, Gears 1 and 2, Halo 3 and a slew of other games for $199. And it comes with a 512mb mem card - and you are set. Still much, much cheaper than a PS3 any way you slice it.

Don't give me that 'But you need this ...' mess to game. No - the Arcade can game right out of the box. Want LIVE? Wifi? Those are extras.

$199 vs. a recent $299 price cut for the PS3. And you don't know if MS is gonna lower the Arcade price down further.

How do you suppose you do that? I couldn't.
When I bought my arcade, I could only play one or 2 games maximum before the card was full. The NXE took up most of the space. So no, you can not play that many games.
Gears 2 basically filled my memory card by the time i was finished with updates and getting to the end of the game... Fable II made absolutely sure it was full.

The arcade is a consumer rip off. It's a machine that will only end up having you pay more. The XBOX360 PRO is the console to buy, it's perfect.

How do you suppose you do that? I couldn't.
When I bought my arcade, I could only play one or 2 games maximum before the card was full. The NXE took up most of the space. So no, you can not play that many games.
Gears 2 basically filled my memory card by the time i was finished with updates and getting to the end of the game... Fable II made absolutely sure it was full.

The arcade is a consumer rip off. It's a machine that will only end up having you pay more. The XBOX360 PRO is the console to buy, it's perfect.

How do you suppose you do that? I couldn't.
When I bought my arcade, I could only play one or 2 games maximum before the card was full. The NXE took up most of the space. So no, you can not play that many games.
Gears 2 basically filled my memory card by the time i was finished with updates and getting to the end of the game... Fable II made absolutely sure it was full.

The arcade is a consumer rip off. It's a machine that will only end up having you pay more. The XBOX360 PRO is the console to buy, it's perfect.

Hold on... First of all I have 3 xbox 360s. 1 pro, 1 Elite and an arcade at my parents place. the 256 meg memroy card is perfectly fine for most games on the arcade. Gears 2 save file for me is 2 MB and i have lots of saves...so I don't know how you had Gears fill your memory card.

Some games have large save files...Halflife 2, UFC 2009, Tomb Raider Underworld...but most have save files within a meg or 2.
But you would be missing out without a hard drive, i wont lie. Because of xbox live arcade and games like shadow complex...

However there are solutions. Microsoft had a promotion where you could get a 20 GB hard drive and 3 months of live for 29.99 last year. Also there are things such as this...http://us.codejunkies.com/Products/XB360-MAX-Memory-2GB__EF000777.aspx

I am gonna buy that memory card any day now.

Bottom line is that the arcade model may not be for people like you and me, that post about videogames on forums. But for an average consumer it should be perfectly fine and is upgradable as needs of that consumer grow.

Not really. You can play Left 4 Dead, Forza 3, Halo ODST, Fable II, Gears 1 and 2, Halo 3 and a slew of other games for $199. And it comes with a 512mb mem card - and you are set. Still much, much cheaper than a PS3 any way you slice it.

Don't give me that 'But you need this ...' mess to game. No - the Arcade can game right out of the box. Want LIVE? Wifi? Those are extras.

$199 vs. a recent $299 price cut for the PS3. And you don't know if MS is gonna lower the Arcade price down further.