People are going to have to go to extreme measures to get an Xbox 360, ... From Microsoft's perspective, they would have liked to get out more units.

People will have to go to extreme measures to get an Xbox 360.

The demand is higher at this point than people were expecting.

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

It was a mutually beneficial learning experience. Although I was taking a lot out of the experience, the people I interacted with got a different perspective of what Americans were like. Having a white person stay with them was atypical for that culture. I was very warmly welcomed.

In one fell swoop they have become the 800 pound gorilla in another interactive entertainment industry.

No one's buying video games this Christmas.

It's been a full five years since people have been able to get their hands on next-generation technology. So there's much more pent-up demand than [during] the release of the last generation's cycle.

They want to keep interest high all the way through the launch of PlayStation 3.