Jeff

No one is really selling it early. Microsoft only announced an anticipated window of early August. The console is not street dated so any retailer can sell them as soon as they come in.

In response to these competing consoles somehow having to do with race... I work at an EB, and yes, the crowd is more racially diverse regarding the PS3. But that seems only because all they know is Sony and the PlayStation name. So when they think video games, they think PS2, PS3. A lot of people that come in from different countries consider every system a "Playstation" be it by Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo. I've had a number of non-white customers who ask for Playstation stuff and actually mean GameCube or XBox. It's just what they know. It's all marketing