Robbie Bach @ X05

[Paco]

We know that they're trying to reduce costs, but they aren't going to quit just because they're losing money, so the more important question is 'so how well will the thing do'...

And 'how many people will foolishly get the cheaper X360 package when they really shouldn't even be offering it in the first place, functionality-wise'...

They learned from their mistakes from the first Xbox. That's the point. They can and have changed their business practice so that they can make money. They can't afford to keep throwing away money just to keep the Xbox brand afloat.

It really depends what you want, then pick out the system that's best for you. Me, I don't have a broadband service so all those nifty accessories for Xbox Live are lost on me, I never got past the 50,000+ blocks on the Xbox HD (that's what it said when I started, and 15 games later it still says that), and I really don't care about backwards compatibility because I rarely play a game more than once.

Seriously, the core system makes sense to me and it's most likely I'll get that one...but it's hard to pass up the great deal on the Premium bundle.