How can your wife tell you what you can and can not buy?

Are you using her money or something? If it's her money and she says no, then don't buy it.

tell her, she'll be able to watch Netflix movies this fall

Heh... asking a bunch of strangers to convince you to buy a console your wife has said no to :)

Newlywed? ;)

Sounds like you're more taken with the prospect of the deal then what you'd actually be getting, which means you probably shouldn't buy it if that's the only reason. Peer pressure isn't a good reason, and then you'll need to pay for Live Gold as well as the games they want to play, whenever you buy or rent them, and if you're not big on shooters it may be things you don't particularly like.

You don't need a 120GB for arcade games either, unless you're really lazy. I've had my 20GB (In which only about 13GB are actually available) for about a year now, and after spending about 12 mins cleaning out some junk on it a few days ago I still got 7.1GBs left, and you can re-download anything you purchase.

Also you say your Wife doesn't approve, you have a backlog of games on your other systems, and you have new house expenses to contend with. Also deal or not, you'd still have to buy games and probably some other accessories (depending on what you want) for your 360, so like any console you'll end up spending more than just what the console costs.

Plus I doubt this will be the last deal Microsoft makes. There’s a thread on the front page where someone says they’ll spend themselves stupid to win this silly console war. Hell they’ll probably be even better bargains next Christmas.

This will only end in Divorce.

Do what wife says... Key to happiness

DO NOT BUY!

Sorry for the CAPS but I had to get your attention.

I speak from experience. I was in the dog house after my wife discovered I had bought an Xbox -- used, six months after I bought it.

Mike from Morgantown

Sell your Wii games at Gamestop and use that to buy a new system.  Keep your favorite ones and the ones with good replay value.

Even if that doesn't cover the price of the Elite, you can tell your wife that you have $150 Gamestop bucks that you have to spend on games so you went ahead and bought an Elite XBox 360.

Explain to her how XBOX Live has TV functionality. It can act as a DVR. It worked on my Wife.

ROFLOL...errr....you could buy it and sell it for a profit on amazon?!?!?!