Shane Kim's Messages

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from Belcaw

All of this price and product choice is great news for all gamers; but how can Microsoft be happy with maintaining a $200 price point on a 120Gig hard drive accessory when it's selling complete systems for only a bit more than that?

As a consumer, I lose my incentive and desire to upgrade when there is such an obvious imbalance in value-proposition to upgrade after my initial investment.

Even if you consider the cheaper 20Gig hard drive at $100; that's still 40% of the price of a core system and the size of this smaller drive is proving less and less desireable with all of the new services on XBox Live offering and enticing me to download and store content on my hard drive.

Owning a 20Gig Pro system, I find myself managing my content on the system far too often; and the lack of a reasonable upgrade option is pushing me towards other content providers on other platforms despite my desire to stick with Microsoft and XBox Live services.