CypherSignal

"though you can calibrate the extra stick."

This alone is ringing some pretty loud alarms in my head. Why on Earth would anyone have to calibrate a joystick with a static specification and build...?

@Tommy758
Shutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutup

@siteuntitled
Uh...the $199 4GB console has been available for more than a year, I think. Or were you hoping for $199 4GB w/ Kinect, 'cause that ain't happening for awhile, considering it's still at TWO-99.

@Tommy758

Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. The only reason I can think of is that they don't want to accidentally hose sales of DC2 ("Why buy Dance Central 2 at the same as your kinect when it already has DC1 in it?"), and maybe Gunstringer isn't a mainstream-enough product in their eyes.

"Acti"? Do you mean "Atvi"?

@That One Guy
Modern Warfare 2 was still hanging out in Sept '10's NPD results, too: http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/NPD_September_2010

@CypherSignal
Oh, and I almost forgot: "ten-eighty" still has 3 syllables, so it's easy to say compared to "seven-twenty".

@commenter7

I'm putting a lot of money behind "Xbox 1080":
1) It's a multiple of 360
2) It's 360 times three (third Xbox console!)
3) In the same way that the Xbox 360 kind-of mandated 720p resolution, the next console will kind-of mandate 1080p resolution.

If they're keeping the Xbox brandname, and don't go with a flowery name, I can see this easily being the case.

@Dante G
Seriously, time travel back fifteen years and say to someone: "In 2011, we will have these pocket-sized fast and fluid touch-screen devices more powerful than your current computer by an order of magnitude and wirelessly connect to a far richer version of the internet than what you have at any time and almost any place, and Sonic and Mario are standing side-by-side on the box for a Nintendo gaming console", and they'd find the second fact far more shocking, intriguing, and/or unbelievable.

Can you provide any screenshots of the dashboard or Kinect tuner with the Zoom on, so that we can see the differences in quality that you noted?