A guy in my class who works at the local Best Buy said that people were forming a line outside his store last night at 6:30pm. Seems a little extreme for a game console if you ask me.

Extreme? maybe if you look at it purely as a game console, but try this: Would you stand in line for 12 hours if someone paid you $600? Xbox 360's have sold for as much as $2000 on ebay. With that number, you got paid $1550 or so after taxes to stand in line. Adding to that, if you were in line for 12 hours, you made almost $130 per hour! If you sold your console for _only_ $1000, your per hour rate would be around $45 per hour.

I suppose if you look at that way, then the time spent out in the cold was a good investment .

I just, I'm sorry to say, got back from a 'Furry conference'. I've seen enough freaks to last me at least a year. Many of them are into gaming, including DDR. Coincidence? I think not.

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A group of my friends went to Walmart yesterday to start waitng for it at noon. They ended up being #15 & #16 in line so they were able to get one of the premium consoles. I guess a few people started waiting at midnight earlier that day. I was surprised that more people hadn't lined up sooner, actually.

The Best Buy around here had a similar situation though. Apparently not everyone did their homework because many didn't know about the limited number of consoles.

After playing on the 360, I have to say that it reaffirms everything good I have had to say about it before its release. Perfect Dark Zero and Call of Duty 2 are incredible. The full media package that comes with the console is stellar. I especially like the ability to play your iPod over any game. First person shooters are so much better with some good tunes interlaced with the action.

The only downside was that (as I suspected) Xbox Live looks like it was unable to accommodate the huge influx of people logging onto their servers. Hopefully they can get that resolved in a timely fashion, if they haven't already.