MS is selling the 360 for $250, with a one year Xbox live membership. This seems good & all, until you realize that, there is minimal cost per user for Xbox live, & that if they do release the 720 in the end of 2013, your paying $250 for a system that will be outdated & quickly unsupported, when you could have waited 13-14 months & applied that $250 to a system that will probably cost double that, but will have the new Xbox titles & probably better graphics, & Microsoft's rip off of the Nintendo Pad controller. As the release of the 720 gets even closer & MS drops the price another $50 to get those last few holdouts, those who buy the 360 any time in 2013 will shoot themselves in the foot. If its true MS plans not to make the 720 backwards compatible, then buying a 360 at the cheaper prices makes some sort of since, but having to buy a soon to be out dated system simply to have access to the 360 game library is sure taking advantage of your customers. Of course, if MS fallows through with their plans to not allow users to play used games without first paying a use fee, or maybe not allowing used games at all, they may find sales of their 720 are much weaker than they expect.