People here never satisfied.
Pricing - They have existing Arcade and Elites in inventory and they want to clear those before the Slim is priced differently. This is exactly what they have done in the past. So once those are cleared at the discounted $149/$249 prices they can have a price reduction on the new SKU for the fall sales season. If they held off the slim they would be making more expensive units for no reason. If they introduced the new SKU at lower price point they would need to reduce existing Arcade/Elites even more. I suspect this is also when you will see pricing for the Kinect SKU. As someone mentioned before. The slims are ready and MS wants to get the boost in sales that this will give them ASAP.
As for the rest of the conference it did exactly what they needed for the 2010 sales season. They showed that Kinect works and it works very well across both games and the interface. It was very cool. You may not like the games because they arent hardcore, but these will be big sales to the targeted audience. They have fitness, they have games that make moms happy that family interaction and movement is happening.
Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.
