Three BB's in NH have them in.

None near my house do, and haven't for a week :(

Doesn't Microsoft want my $400 bucks?

Best Buy's around me say they get a shipment in about once a week. Day varies as well as quantity.

On Wednesday, I called on and they had 1 prem and 2 core systems in the store. I ran up there and got the last prem system they had gotten in that day. It was about 4pm at that point, so the shipment must have came in recently. I can't imagine these came in before they opened or the night before and were still in the store half a day later.

I don't know if anyone is interested but walmart.com has some bundles in stock

Some premiums available in Concord NH Bestbuy.

Dell has this Core Bundle in stock.

For $650, you get:
Core System ($400 MSRP)
Additional wireless controller ($50 MSRP)
Universal media remote ($30 MSRP)
Two 64MB memory units ($80 MSRP)
Perfect Dark Zero ($50 MSRP)
Project Gotham Racing ($50 MSRP)
Xbox Live Kit with 12-month subscription and headset ($70 MSRP)
Play and Charge Kit ($20 MSRP)

So the total value of this is about $750 if you were to buy it in the store. Then there's a $35 off $300 coupon for Dell @ Home (either you have it already or pay $2 for it on eBay).

So, if you can't find one at all, this might be a good option.

The bundles seem like they are always in now, but I am glad I didn't get one. I just happen to see one when walking through Kmart to the video game section, and they have been getting them in ever since. Check out your local Kmart, our Walmart got a bunch at launch, and then the second wave, but I have never once seen one there.

My brother is trying to get a 360. We were at Circuit City today and they had 1 in stock yesterday.

For those looking, keep checking there. They seem to be the only B&M I've been to that actually has them on the weekends.

I still haven't been able to find one at a Bestbuy near me. Any idea when a big restocking will be coming from Microsoft?

Yeah, the Best Buy down the street had some for a few hours one day, but it's been a solid two weeks of checking the Product Finder with no 360s anywhere near me.

I cannot believe this shortage is STILL going on...

My Best Buy always has cores in stock. Too bad I'm not interested in a 360 anymore.

My cousin's still trying to get one. Can'y find any anywhere in the NYC metro area.

The best buys here in the Chicago suburbs get some every once in a while and sell out quickly. Good thing I don't have the money or the urge(lack of games for my tastes) to buy one right now. I'll probablly get one when the ps3 comes out as everyone and their mother will try to get a ps3 and probablly sell it on ebay.

If you really wanted a 360 you would just find someone that has one and kill them for it. Go ahead and do it. I know you want to. You need it, you want it, you can not live without it and the only thing standing in your way is a punk kid that doesn't deserve the 360.

You know what must be done. A well placed judo chop, bullet to the head, or baseball bat the choice is yours. Just don't get any blood on the 360, it doesn't like blood only souls. Now go get your xbox....Killer.

Oh can you pick one up for me also?

You're not alone nick. It's not so much I'm not interested as more than cautious. I just don't care for something that's not only a new product but one that's short in supply and with a sense of being "rushed" through. I didn't buy an XBox when it first came out and I'm in a holding pattern with this one.

My wife asked me last night if I was still playing with the guys online and I said no since most got the new 360. She asked if I need to get it and I turned it down. In fact I'm probably letting my on-line subscription expire since most of the "DVD Halo Clan" is 360 now. My current XBox is still fun and with plenty of bargin games at $10-$15 to play. I'll probably get one still. It may be in two months or the end of the year. But it'll be when I can just walk in and pull it off the shelf without fighting for it. Nothing is worth all that crap.


Kenny J. - Buzz Starhopper

-confused-

I tried to get the 360 on lauch, but no dice. I'd been trying, and trying and everyone was always sold out. I wanted the 360 so bad, so when our income tax came in, I went to Ebay and spent 550.00, including shipping, for a Premium system. The day it came to me via FED EX, I ran down to Wally World to pick up a couple of games and an extra controller and what do I see...Damnit...3 premiums and 1 core system sitting behind the display case. My wife starts laughing at me, by daughter starts laughing at me, complete strangers start laughing at me....I start laughing at me :grumble:


That's ok though, I've never been a patient man. I had to get my fix :D2:

Quick correction: the xbox 360 core msrp is 300 (299.99) not 400 (399.99). Thanks for the tip though. If I had one of those coupons I think I would jump on this.

For those in the Raleigh area, the Best Buy on Glenwood Ave has both Premiums and Cores in stock as of right now.

You're so afraid to play UC2 with me that you're gonna let your sub run out. Man that's weak -ohbfrank- ;)

i'm so pissed. the online inventory link says west L.A. (pico) and hawthorne,ca has them but when i went to both stores, the blue robots told me they're out. either those fuckers are lying to my face or that online inventory checker is bunk.

Between time and the "house" it's becoming harder to play single player let alone online. Plus I've taken up my old passion astronomy. I chatted with Bean and assured him I'll work on getting a 360 so ya'll have someone to pick on.

Speaking of UC2 I've played it with melee only with three juggernauts against (5) and it's a hoot.
Did just finish Project: Snowblind and it did turn out to be pretty good despite being easy.

Kenny J. - Buzz

You mean these STILL are not available in stores? NOW will everyone concede that this is a "failed launch"?!??!?!

If you are in iowa and looking for one, best buy gets them in almost every tuesday around 12-2 in the afternoon. They sell out quick though. Just check the availability tracker every so often and you should be able to find one pretty easily.

No, I don't think I will. They'll have sold 2.5 million consoles in 90 days. Not really a failure, even though demand is way beyond that. And really, with demand so freaking high...

How can we call it a failure?

Stores are getting shipments in every week and selling out as soon as they do. How is that a failure? One analyst predicts 10-12 million sold by year's end. See http://next-gen.biz/index.php?option...=2358&Itemid=2 . It has launched with more quality games than any console in history (and more excellent ones coming out this month) and was the first to ambitiously launch in the U.S. and Japan virtually simultaneously.

While it has not done as well in Japan, that was to be expected. Japan is increasingly becoming a small player in the videogame industry anway. The European market is bigger, and the best development studios are outside of Japan these days. Sony will continue to dominate Japan because a) it is a Japanese company and b) because it will cater to the Japanese by providing a steady diet of the ever so odd games they seem to like. I hope Microsoft never does that unless it doesn't come at the expense of the kinds of games I like. The best thing about MS and the Xbox is that American videogamers are no longer at the mercy of Japan and Japanese developers as we were with Nintendo and Sony. Gone are the days when we would have to wait a year or more for the U.S. version of a game or new console. This will hopefully force Nintendo and Sony to broaden their horizons as well.

Don't get me wrong, I am not at all a Microsoft fanboy. I have owned just about all the major consoles. I own a PS2, though it doesn't get much use anymore. I will say that the Xbox and 360 are my favorite so far (and the Dreamcast, which is surprising since I loathed Sega after getting burned by the Sega CD). I will probably get a PS3 and Revolution too unless Sony or Nintendo really drops the ball with them, which I doubt. It is nice for a change to have an American console that tends to have games that are more oriented to *adult* American gamers.

That was my problem with the launch. If it was expected to be such a failure in Japan, then why launch in Japan? Why not take all of those units that are setting on shelves and distribute them here? They get the PS3 first, that's good enough.

:up::up::up:

Nothing against the "Cutsey Poot" games that the Japanese, and many here, love but they just don't appeal to me anymore in my old age.

Well I'm not saying product is a "failure". I'm just saying that the launch was a complete failure. For it to be a successful launch, all the preorders should have been filled. Not 20%.

I do agree that the quality of the games available at launch is pretty damn good!

I still can't believe I can't just walk into a store and get one now if I wanted to.

I don't think preorder fulfillment alone is the best measure of a successful launch. In any case, the stores share a lot of the blame there, as they took preorders without knowing how many they were getting.

If in LA, AAAH'S on Ventura blvd in Sherman Oaks always has people standing outside with signs when they have them in stock. They had the signs out Today(Thursday) saying they have premiums and cores.

How is it Microsoft's fault that game stores took more preorders than systems they would receive?I have been wondering about this for awhile as every time I go to ebgames.com I see they are selling more bundles. Does this mean ebgames has fulfilled all their preorders and they have so many extra units they can still make new bundles? Or does this mean that ebgames is screwing their customers? I don't see how that makes MS's launch a failure.

I am not sure about that since I only have 3 games for mine and the only other one I want right now is Kameo. I will say this, I waited more than a year after the PS2 launched and several months after the original xbox launched and I didn't buy this many games with the system. It took awhile to get that many good games going. Now here I am with this great system and 3 games I really want to play more of and beat but there are new games coming out over the next two months I want too. So I think the quality of the games available at launch and right after are much better than seen before with previous gen.

That's how I got mine. In fact I went into Kmart yesterday to see if they had any good game deals and they had one in the display. As I said before there are always bundles online, in fact the inventory tracker RSS feed I have shows a bunch even one from fingerhut. I can't see how those of you calling this launch a failure always point to not being able to find one. Isn't that the best indicator that the launch went well, when demand is high months later and the units are still being moved well?Sure it would be nice for people to be able to walk into any store and see the system and buy it quick, but if every system is being sold as soon as it goes in the store then the product is still hot.

My main question to all the people who call the 360 launch a failure is this. What will you say about the PS3 launch if it comes out in spring like they say, since they now have about 3 months and a week? Since the last I heard they hadn't even had the BD specs finalized that isn't enough time to build a good inventory and launch a new platform. Considering it looks likely that PS3 will not be out in the US until late 2006 or even sometime in 2007 and with us knowing the the PS3 will not have a HDD in it and the speculation the price could be $700, I would say the 360 launching when it did was a pretty good move. By the time the PS3 comes out there should be plenty of 360's on store shelves and when you look at the non-hdd 360 core system at $299 and the non-hdd PS3 at $700 it kind of makes you wonder what Sony was thinking this time around. I do hope the speculation is wrong though, the PS3 should not be a penny more than a core system if you ask me. I would have to get one even if only for the BD player built in then.

I think the issue here is not that it's impressive the 360 has been selling out, because it seems like when a store DOES get a shipment, it's very small (5-10 consoles.) It's easy to sell out that kind of shipment.

We're now what, almost 3 months since launch? And they still can't make enough? I've never had this much trouble getting a console I wanted, and I've been getting them since the 2600. I REFUSE to buy a bundle, so that's out too.

I work at Best Buy and we only get about 6 360's per week. They usually sell out within the first 15 minutes of opening the store. It's really pathetic actually. I am a huge xbox fan, but I think Microsoft really screwed up with this launch.

What happened was that stores were informed as to the number of pre-orders they could take. And they did. Then when MS ran into mfg. capacity issues the reduced the pre-order numbers by nearly 2/3rds. That left only 1/3 of pre-orders to be filled. I do know of a few instances where stores ignored the numbers and took as many pre-orders as they could. But it is definitely MS' fault when they tell stores one number months before and then weeks before, dramatically reduce that number.


The launch titles were decent, but not great. CoD2, PGR3, and maybe Condemned were the only ones to show off the 360's nextgen-ness. And even those titles had issues.


The fact that there are still people around who want one but can't find one is not good. Some of these people will soon give up. Others have already given up. If supply meets up with demand, is it because of greater supply or because the demand has been reduced? We'll never really know for sure.


I'm not a fanboy, so if Sony has the same shortage issues, then I'd say that it too was a failure. Selling a PS3 for $700 wouldn't make it a failure if people snap them up as fast as they make them.

Someone once said that Sony could take a PS2, put it in that prototype PS3 case, sell it as a PS3 for $500 and they'd sell a million of them in one day. I believe that. Which in essence may end up happening if the cost and schedule of Blu-Ray isn't helpful to a PS3 launch.

rotfl the million in one day thing is a slight exagerration but yeah I said that and I still believe it to this day, MS doesn't enjoy the insane fan following that sony does.

Like I said, I remember people complaining about having a preorder at ebgames and yet ebgames.com was selling new bundles. I don't see how it is MS's fault that stores like ebgames took a certain number of preorders and then they turn around and create bundles to make more money rather than filling all those preorders they took. Was there enough 360's to cover the demand at launch? No, I think we all expected this all along as this usually happens with consoles. They had some manufacturing issues and the worldwide launch also helped to make it a little worse but there were systems and stores like ebgames screwed over their customers.



I won't argue with you on this as I had stated myself that I only got PD0 and condemned out of the launch titles and I got fight night 3. CoD2 looks good even with the problems and Kameo. Other than that I am not all that interested in the launch games, mainly because of the price. I think the increased price is BS for the consumers.


Supply will meet demand one day, and then people will be able to walk into the store and pick one up. It has to happen so it isn't a matter of if. As for the people who give up/gave up, what are the alternatives?If they want to play there is only one next gen system now and it looks like Sony may not be in the game for some time. The head start, a years worth of good titles and xbox live all make for some good reasons to not drop your money on a PS3 when it comes out with a bunch of games that were already out on 360 and the few exclusives available at launch. Even though it makes no difference to me how well Sony does, and I do know they will sell out the first shipment fast, I just don't see Sony making MS the number 2 system anytime soon.


So MS is a failure because people snatch up their console as fast as they can make them but Sony would not be a failure if they are in short supply and charge $400 more than MS, w/o a hdd, but people buy up the small supply they have???This is the thinking I don't get.

The Best Buy on Research Blvd in Austin had about 5 or 6 core systems left when I went by at lunch. I bought the last premium.

I might have tried to cram too much thought into a single sentence. :) I'll try again.

MS' launch was a failure because demand FAR outstripped supply.
Sony's launch will be a failure if demand FAR outstrips supply.
If the PS3 sells for $700 w/o a hdd, and demand is only slightly more than supply, then that would be considered a success (barring any other issues like release titles, build quality, etc.)

In the equation, it isn't important what they sell and for how much, but a ratio of demand to supply that will help dictate the level of success. I'm talking specifically about the success of the launch... not the success of the console overall.

When the PS3 comes out (whenever that will be), if they can't fill 70%+ of the pre-orders within a week, then that is a failed launch in my opinion. A very successful launch is one where all the pre-orders are filled and whoever wants to get one, can get one.

Stores get pre-orders, which in turn order the product from the distributor who in turn get the product from Microsoft/Sony/whoever. MS/Sony should know ahead of time via these order, how big the demand is and should have enough product out to satisfy this demand.

Since we're well far away from the XBox360 launch date, whether or not you can get one now has nothing to do with the "launch".