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I think the big question is, will Xbox 2 have a hard drive? I believe Xbox 2 will have some type of portable hard dirve system. It would be like a supper ipod that one could insert into the front of their Xbox 2... like a memory card on PS2, but it would have much larger storing capacity ( 10 - 100 gigs ). This hard drive could serve as the Xbox 2's main hard drive, and it could also serve as a portable media device. In other words, not only could it store game files/saves and xbox live content/downloads, but it could store movies and music. This would help to keep the Xbox 2's price down by solving the cost issues of having to put an internal hard drive in the console. The customers, you and I, would have to buy the hard drive as a seperate accesory... like the DVD playback kit. If you didn't have the portable hard drive, then you wouldn't be able to play the first Xbox's games. I'm sure if such a thing were to happen, then there would be different sizes ( 10 -100 gigs ), styles, and function drives to choose from. For example, the base hard drive may just serve as a small 10 gig hard drive, while the top of the line hard drive may have a 100 gigs, a head phone jack for listing to your stored music, and a small LCD built into it for movies on the go. It may even be able to serve as a portable gaming device... that is highly doubtfull seeing as how Microsoft has been quoted as saying that they have no plans to enter into the portable gaming device arena.
This would be great. Imagine going to a friend's house to play Halo 3, Perfect Dark Zero, and Splinter Cell 5. He's doesn't have these games, but he has an Xbox 2. Instead of having to start all over in each game on his Xbox 2, or having to bring your whole system to his house, you would only have to pop out your portable hard drive and everything that is on your Xbox 2 would be accessable on you friend's Xbox 2.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I think this would be a good idea for Xbox 2:)
[Edited on 6/16/2004 10:56:41 PM]