$399

Xbox 360 ba-bay! Not bad for everything you get: console, faceplate, hard drive, wireless controller, wireless headset, HD AV cables, Eternet cable, Media Remote Control and Xbox Live. I'm definitely going to have to buy one, just not quite sure when. I probably won't be in line the first day though.

A few things to note in the gaming industry:

I think Xbox has a bigger budget for one convention than my company makes in a year. Check out this video of their "booth" at the Gaming Convention in Leipzig Germany. Seriously, you call that a booth? Jeebus! Anyway, that's just a grotesque amount of money being spent there. Pretty damn sweet, but still grotesque.

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moving this to it's own post because it's so frickin' rad
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