Rob6021 on 25 December 2009
They only did the $500 dollar model to try to get people to think the console was only $499, they purposely didn't stock it very much because they were already taking heavy losses on the $599 model, and were taking a lot heavier losses on a $499 one. I don't think it really worked, everyone still thought it was $600. People willing to put out that kind of money wanted the full deal.
