20GB Xbox 360 phased out for 60GB 360

I seem to remember Microsoft talking about Sony confusing customers due to having too many PS3 SKUs… but Sony has not had four different PS3s out at the same time, what with the canceling of the 20 before the 40 came, and the 60 at the time the 80 was unveiled…

…as an afterthought, I suppose the Pro 360 getting discontinued takes Microsoft down to 3… but my point, I think, still remains.

Despite the different configuration providing consumers a “choice”, a bigger hard drive is almost mandatory to truly enjoy all the free contents online (demo, videos, extra contents, etc). The different SKUs are for those who are price conscious and think that they could get by w/ a smaller or no hard drive at all, but upgrades is almost inevitable. I myself have gotten a hard drive-less 360 bundle and had to purchase the wireless controller, wi-fi adapter, 20Gb and then a 120Gb.

At least the 20gb model being phased out isn’t as valuable as the 20Gb/60Gb/80Gb PS3s, w/ the standard 40gb losing backward compatibility, which is important to me. I just wish one day Sony would lift the region lock for the PS1/2 library, that would make my life a lot easier.

However, the Blue Dragon bundle was the best deal for me to get a Jpn 360 system at that time despite the subsequent upgrades I need to make, so it wasn’t too bad.. thankfully most of the US games are region-free.

Any news on which chip this will have, or whether or not previous reliability issues have been addressed.

Dang it. I bought a 20 gb 360 a little over a month ago. Oh well.

Hopefully those who don’t own this amazing console yet will pick one up. Amazing selection of games.

With the amount of downloadable content out there 20G goes by fast