I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo launched with two different system versions. Since I'm sure Nintendo wants to keep the system affordable ($299.99 at most), I don't think they can do that with a hard drive and still be profitable. Of course, they also seem to want the lost "hardcore" gamers back, and they at least need to support hard drives for that to happen. So I see there being an affordable "basic" package with the 8GB internal flash or whatever it is, and then a "premium" model that comes with a large hard drive and maybe some other goodies. I know Nintendo have never sold two versions of a home system before, but they do currently sell two different versions of the DS (one version with two models), so I think they realize that it can work to sell a cheaper model and a more expensive "deluxe" model.