Microsoft is actully making it worth the little bit of extra money. it looks good in black and it has a 120gb hard drive instead of the standerd 20gb one. if u were to buy a normal xbox and then the 120bg hard drive it would be more expencive then acctually just buying the elite xbox. microsoft is trying there best to sell more xbox's and past the wii is sales but that wont happen now will it? ;]