Sonfire

Sorry to bust your bubble on the whole "1 Year" thing, but that is completely unaccurate. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft consoles here in the states have a 90 day warranty. Now controllers and stuff(Accessories) may be more or less. I'm CS at BestBuy, and too many people pass up on protection because they think "nothing will happen" Mine broke once already also, I got the MS plan and the BBY plan.

400+ dollars is way to much money to be throwing in the air hoping the best for it, no matter how you look at it.

I work at Best Buy and I dont know about the whole new bundle or anything like that Bestbuy still has the 2 SKUs for the Systems. But I can tell you something interesting, every store in our district is getting at least 130-180 inbound to them, and the same goes for every other district. The past 3 months we would get in like maybe tops of 10 in at a time, Bestbuy is definetly planning something.

You have to admit it, its a really nice console. It might not be by any means perfect, but Microsoft did put some money into it. It has so many little things that make the console worth while, and each day it seems that new features *cough exploits* seem to be found. Once they figure out how to make the xtender play all formats, it will be the best console.