The 250 gb comes with a headset, and it seems there are only bundles now for the 250 gb. Either Forza 4 with a steering wheel or the two game holiday bundle. All for $299, and they let you use an external hardrive. But don't let that cloud your vision, obviously the harddive is overpriced because that other crap adds $0 value.
Forza 4 (assuming that you *want* it) - $45 on Amazon.
Offical 360 Headset (Wii U does voice chat without a headset, but okay) - $7.29 on Amazon.
So... $47.21 for the 250 GB Hard Drive...
500 GB Hard Drive on Amazon.com...
$47.73Fifty-Two cents, I get twice the memory and a hard drive I can use on whatever PC I want.
Also, why are you so focused on the 360?
Because some folks keep bringing up the 360 in comparison...
PS3 uses 2.5" hard drives, why can't the Wii-U?
Wait... Casual players are so stupid they won't understand external memory, but now we expect them to dissect their system and install a hard drive?
I also like it how you've gone from I never tell people what to buy to telling everyone the Wii-U is not for them.
Anyone who says "I want the Wii U to fail" has already decided the Wii U is not for them.
Of course, they can. However, I think it's better to approach them by pretending that they can't.
If Nintendo should approach groups of consumers based on poor stereotypes of the most vocal within that group, then Nintendo should just assume that all hardcore gamers are whiny twits that will never be happy with Nintendo no matter what, so why bother doing anything for them anyway?