Ironically, I used to work at a police department in my small town (13k people).
The most stolen game system? Xbox 360. This was months after the Wii/PS3 launches. I was a dispatcher, so I got all the incoming calls, and whenever there was a home invasion/robbery, one of the first things any suspect would get would be the video game system. Smaller than a TV, more expensive than a DVD player, and harder to track too (atleast from a criminal's perspective). I always found it was odd, because the victim(s) would always mention "oh, they stole my son/family member's Xbox 360" and could specify alot of stuff about it.
Likewise, Playstation 2's were #2 (ironically). It's like they knew the 360s were costlier, and went for them first. I never had any other systems reported stolen, ever. Just X360s and PS2s. Sometimes TVs and DVD players were stolen, along with other typical household goods, but mostly video game systems and games were stolen since their cost is so much more immense for the size. Not only that, EB/GS rarely care about serial # checking for games.
Of course, there were always tons of things like that happening in the media during PS3 and X360 launches. I did hear a story over on NeoGAF about a mother offering sexual favors for a Nintendo Wii a few months back :-p (sadly enough, it seemed legit too)
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
