Just A Few More Hours

Just a couple more hours and the 360 hits the shelves on the east coast; a few more hours after that, it hits the west coast.

Which means in about three hours I’ll go line up with a bunch of other Geeks at ebGames… it’s colder tonight than it was last November 9th – that’s for sure. But I’m curious to see what the crowd is like. After all, no store is getting as many consoles as they thought… at maximum there should be 100 people in line which is much different than the 500+ that showed up for Halo 2. And they had the stock to sell that many for that launch. In addition to the short list of pre-orders that can pick up tonight, how many will stay up to midnight to claim the box? After all, their hold on the first wave lasts for 48 hours, so there’s some leeway for pick up. In fact, I’m sorta worried that there might be people there that will try the “But I’m here!” ploy to get ahead in line… knowing my luck in things like this, that would happen to my 360, if I wasn’t there. Hell, there’s a 50% shot of it happening while I am there! That’s why I won’t wait until tomorrow: fear.

Besides, I’ve already got the place cleared out for it and already tweaked my Harmony remote. Since my TV has one DVI port (used by cable) and two component (currently an Xbox and DVD player) I have to make a choice over what gets hooked up for HD. The 360 is a given, sure, but what about the other port? Rather than retiring my current Xbox, I’ve decided to pull my DVD player: the 360 should easily fill in for it for a while. As I transition off Xbox-specific games, I’ll swap the Xbox with the DVD player again, but in all honesty, the 360 supports HD and 5.1 sound – why keep the extra box around if I don’t have to? We’ll see.

Either way, cheers to the Xbox Team for their last three years of hard work – I know I appreciate it (and will appreciate it a lot more in about five hours!)


2 thoughts on “Just A Few More Hours”

  1. The was a local TV news story (WTNH Channel 8) showing about 40 people lined up in front of Best Buy in Orange, CT early this evening. The store manager told one of the people waiting in line that there were only 100 units delivered, which makes the folks waiting out in the cold rain even more determined to get one.

  2. Same thing happened out here at Best Buy… 200 units and 1000 people showed up. Altho Bill stopped by too, which I’m sure helped build a crowd – oh, and we didn’t have rain ;)


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