To enable media cross-pollination, the Xbox 360 will ship with a removable factory-standard 20GB hard drive (about twice the size of the first Xbox drive). When asked about the rampant rumors of different Xbox 360 SKUs, some offering a barebones package sans hard drive, J Allard was adamant about their currently strategy, but left it up in the air for future post-launch iterations of the system. "Who knows? We talk to retailers, we start taking orders, Japan says, 'What we really wanna do is have a 60-gig hard drive and a wired controller,' something like that. The system's so flexible that until we start stuffing them in boxes, nothing's for sure. But we wanted to be flexible worldwide, so current thinking is we have one worldwide offering. So far retailers and marketing all agree that that's the right base configuration for launch. And then it's probably not until the next holiday that we start mixing it up. But we never say never."
