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"it" happened ...

An higher sales are expected next week due the release of MW2!!
Nice job, starting to get interesting again :P

plus its an online gift card only.

That's only if you purchase it online.  In store purchases get gift cards to be used anywhere.

Wow with the hundred dollars you save you could buy a wireless adapter to almost bring it up to being a PS3 or Wii!

Unfortunately you'd also need a hard drive bigger then the joke of a HD the arcade comes with which tacks on another 150 for the 120GB hard drive making your "99 dollar 360" suddenly baloon up to 350 (which is what the PS3 costs with a 250GB hard drive plus blu ray and all the rest). Oh don't forget another 50 for online play this year which takes it to 400 bucks!

Even at 99 dollars its not really a good deal until basics like wireless and online play come free as they should. It's like buying windows 7 "starter" on a netbook only to find that you can't use more then 2GBs of RAM or even change the background without ponying up over a hundred bucks for a different Windows 7. Low entry price then nickel and dimeing you into the poor house, thats the Microsoft way (there's a reason Microsoft and Microtransaction have the same base prefix)

Next year I bet they rebrand their company name to Microtransactionsoft.

I bet the PS3 still is number 1 worldwide even with this. The 360 is getting gamecubed lately.

   Haha I JUST did this.  I bought it for 110 (100 plus 10 tax) and have it up on ebay for 170 buy it now.  Going to get a few of these going.  I did the same thing with a 200 dollar deal on an Elite a while back (sold it for 280 and pocketed the difference).  I did the same thing with the Wii Fit back when it was a big deal at launch, its a nice supplemental income really.  60 bucks for 20-30 minutes of shopping is not bad at all.

Apparently you have adopted Sony's mind scape where every consumer wants everything....

Microsoft offer it this way because not everyone needs everything.  A large potion of console gamers still don't even go online, nor do they need any more space than is available with the onboard memory.  Sure if they change their mind it is more expensive in the long term, but that's the same with everything in the commercial world if you buy only what you think you need, then find out later you need or want more.

Maybe if you purchased the Arcade online the gift card is online only, but not in store. We turned right around and bought some groceries with the cards I got on Saturday when I purchased 2 Arcades.  Other people that bought 2 Arcades did them as separate transactions so they could use the gift card from the first Arcade bought on the 2nd one.

Really?  That's funny... they still cost $199, so there is no way you could have bought them for $100....  And the Elite has never cost $200....  Somebody likes telling stories, I see....

does anyone know if npd are gonna track this?