It seems that there will indeed be several configurations of the next generation Xbox 360 console from Microsoft, and that perhaps not all will ship with a hard drive. Xbox executive J Allard is warning games developers not to rely on the presence of a hard drive when writing their new games. Although Microsoft is not yet in a comfortable place to announce details of possible multiple models of the Xbox 360, it seems more and more likely that budget models will lack a hard drive. There will also likely be several differing Xbox 360 models beyond that, some coming with traditional DVD drives, and some coming with HD DVD and so forth.