xbox forums are already saying some of these are falcon'd.
so hyped. first elite with the chip here in miami's all mine.

hmm, the Halo model box looks like it gots a boo boo in the corner.

I bet those will fly off the ranks

damn

if they're falcon, I'm buying one

I already have a spare HD

@TheIrishNinja: wait, my bad: so far, theyve seen holiday bundle ones (premiums) confirmed, i think at least one had clear pics. i dont know about these arcade packs tho, sorry for the mistake.

I wonder, If my 360 CORE goes RROD, Will they send me a 360 Arcade Pack? *Crosses fingers* IT BETTER BE FALCON'D, keep me up to date Kotaku *does evil monkey point of doom*

not likely, they'll either fix the heating problem or give you one w/ the same series (usually confirmed by your DVD-rom drive.

i mean you have to realize a few things when it comes to the repair process:

1) microsoft never touches it
2) you will potentially lose all your xbla content
3) UPS certified technicians are actually the ones that service your 360 at their texas facility.

so not to burst your bubble but the odds of you getting a newer chipset is slim to none without raising some serious hell with the system, but since they already extended the warranty one something that generally has a limited warranty, you're out of luck.

and when i meant system i meant w/ microsoft service, but they still don't give a crap.

oh yeah, so hey what was the retail price again? is it core price? or some excuse to charge more for a system that doesn't really do anything.

... damn it ok next time i'll read the entire thing before i post - (=P 279.99 core price)

Hmm.. we'll if anything, I'll just give my Core away and buy an Elite.

is that the fabled one that can play blu-rays and use the wiiemote to play halo3?

Lol at the Halo 3 360. Nobody is going to want that box.

I"m guessing Microsoft just let it slip into retails on purpose.. They probably saw the massive mess that Sony did when they kept on announcing new PS3 SKU's with different hard drive sizes. Rather than getting people excited, it just confused the heck out of everybody.

@Tei: yes but you have to buy 2 addons.

Probably not worth it to new gamers unless the HD is now cheaper than 70 bucks..

@mr_dimsum: smart person!

Yeah, seeing that the interwebs will just complain and bash about another SKU, they just decide to let this trickle into the sale quietly without fuss or fanfare.

No announcement is good. Afterall it looks like the interwebs are spreading the news just fine for them. ^_^

The tendrils are spearing everyone! Only Psychic Skateboarder Man can save us now!

This makes me laugh, it makes me laugh a lot. I work at a Toys R Us and unloaded a few of these off a truck a couple of days ago. The actual street date for these things is 10/23 and the boxes are slapped with big orange lables that state that it's not supposed to be on shelves until then.

I wonder how big of a fine that Walmat, I think it's a Walmart, is gonna get for breaking the street date.

@NoaAltwynn: Thanks for giving the rest of us a street date =P

@mr_dimsum:

Massive mess? I see 3 different 360 boxes there, and there is a 4th(premium)in there also. But Sony has too many?!? Take off the blinders pal.

Funny thing is, I have never in my life seen any of the Xbox360 packages in any retail store.
Not because they aren't there, but because I'm that much of a moron and never visit "gaming stores". Amazon prevails.

Thus I can't help but wonder about the size of that package, maybe it's just the picture, but my 360 packaging is waaaaaaaay smaller than that in real life.

@ZeroHero:

I wouldn't call the Halo 3 or arcade boxes new skus.

One is a different color...one has extra games...hardly a sku.

@vecha:
But they have new skus printed on them...to define them from previous releases of the console.... so regardless of what you would or wouldn't call them, thats what they are.

@adventchild08: And if there were fifty different packages/bundles. As long as it states what's inside (HDD or not and what size, headset, controller wireless or not, etc.), I see no problem at all. The same goes for the PS3.

@adventchild08:

Well what I meant is I see no issue.

People get all huffy-puffy over skus....its no big deal is all i'm getting at regardless of what they would or wouldn't get fussy over....lol..HA

@adventchild08:

All i'm saying is there isn't a big deal. People get all offensive over the 360 and ps3 releasing new "skus". So...regardless of the definition...I see no problem..lol

"NO, no, Mr. Salesperson. I want the one in the busted-ass box. Thanks."

@jacksinn:

Both 360s that I have bought have had busted up boxes....one of which has RRoD twice on me....I hope the other doesn't.

The Best Buy I work for got the Premium Holiday bundles in last week. I believe we are currently sold out of them too. The only system we can keep in stock (because we were sent so many) is Elites and the Halo pack, and those both sell pretty well too. But please please PLEASE!!!! send some people to buy our PS3s. We have so many of the 80g, and the 60g, and we just cant move them!

On the other hand, we had some Wiis. They came, they went...

@Justcrim:

I can not wait to see the numbers from the holiday season....

I wonder if anything will change next generation now that the wii is kicking ass and taking names?

I hope to god sony and microsoft don't create something akin to the wii...not that the wii is bad.

hmm...how many other versions of the X360 are they coming out with? The Halo 3 console was stupid since it didn't come with Halo 3. C'mon Microsoft, alittle love for your gamers.