It sounds like the plug may have been pulled on the original Xbox. We received an email from a retailer source of ours saying that wholesalers are now saying that Microsoft has stopped manufacturing the console. In other words, what's on shelves or in warehouses is all that's left. From the email:

Today I spoke to my game distributor and he informed me that Microsoft has officially discontinued the Xbox 1.0 today. It seems as though M$ has no intentions to keep their predecessor around and make it a bargain console like Sony did with the PS1. But then again, they never said they were going to.

Microsoft is checking on this, but hasn't gotten back to us yet. I'll post an update with their official response.

Update: Microsoft responded. If you read carefully, you'll notice they don't, in fact, deny a thing.

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