i agree it is underpriced and microsoft must be losing a fortune, this is a desperate act to try and boost sales, but what i am saying is none of the games for the xbox really benefit from having a hard drive? i have not seen any mind blowing games which can only be made because of this hard drive, ok it can save games on it, but thats a very small + i have 6 games for my gamecube and they are all saved on the standard memory card which cost under £10, the only real benefit for having a hard drive as far as i can see is to download ileagal games from the net and play them from the hard drive, which so many people are doing which will destroy the xbox, just look at the PC pirate scene its massive, nintendo wanted to make there console as hard to crack as possible so would never of dreamed of including a 40GB hard drive, when they release a portable hard drive it will be no more than 1GB as to again **** off the pirates while adding to the systems features, dolby pro logic is prety good sound but obviously not as good as 5.1, but FOR me i only play FPS games on my PC so get the 5.1 there but its a nice feature i agree.
my mate has an x box with 2 games Halo and Amped, i think Halo is prety cool, but i would rather play on my PC.
Microsoft must do something pretty quick as x box sales in U.K and japan are very poor (hence the price drop) (U.S its doing better) add to that the fact its **** easy to pirate, then add to that the fact they have just waisted so many millions on rare software company which for 1) takes forever to release games and 2) is no where near as good as they were in the early nineties and late eighties, as alot of the best programmers have left, surely the fact that nintendo decided not to buy them out last year should of told MS thats its not a good move
anyway **** i have just got carried away and mised the point, but in a way i agree its a ok price for what you get, and a even better one if you want to pirate games
as games are still £10 more than gamecube and PS2 games, but how long will it be around? how much money are MS willing to throw away to make it a success? only time will tell, if you want the most exclusive games and want plenty of 3rd party games as well as the great nintendo games then gamecube is a better buy