People fail to relize that microsoft does not do this to make consumers angry. They do it to give them options. The core system is for people who don't have a high speed connection or hd tv. The premium is. The HD-DVD Drive is for the movie buffs who want to watch hd movies with out having to spend the 500$ on a stand alone player. This "new 360" is for the people like me who want IPTV. For those of you who don't know, IPTV is a television service that gives you every channel avalible including HD channels. The "New 360" will work as a DVR that lets you record up to 4 shows at once (hence the larger HDD). You can also play games while recording tv shows and while wacthing/recording let you use all your guide functions. They are not forcing you to buy this. They are simply offering it to you as an option. The problem with sony is they try to force you to buy things. They make an expencive system with a BR player built in to make it more expencive to force people to blue ray. What about those with out HD tvs? Or those who don't watch movies? What is thier incentive to buy the system for the BR player when they can get another system cheaper that gives you choices of what you want to upgrade to. I used to like sony but now they are just burying them selves and don't know when to stop.
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