Ok guys, time to stop sounding like brain dead morons. Re-read the article, it was a line of about 200 at ONE store. There were probably lines as large at many of the other stores that were selling it. If you are going to criticize you should compare it to the recent WoW launch and figure out which of those more people spent money on.

I'm surprised no one has commented on the "oh-so-telling" reference made of Microsoft's cherished customers. Darren Huston, president and chief executive officer of Microsofts Japanese unit said, Really, just dramatic sell-through and certainly above anything I expected but theyre a really, really critical audience to test..."

If I was a Tokyo resident lining up to buy a company's product, I don't think I'd appreciate being thought of as an "audience to test" -- just some sort of MS guinea pig -- by that company's executive officer in Japan. What was that guy thinking? Hey Toshi, what does it feel like to be just another "anecdotal data point"? Really, who talks like that anyway? What's with the "dramatic sell-through"? Whatever happened to "their selling like hotcakes!"? When am I going to stop asking rhetorical questions? out...