Scoble, Microsoft screwed the pooch on this one, if Microsoft would have kept these for the states maybe I could have obtained an X-Box 360 on launch day, I spent hours waiting for X-Box 360 on launch day only to be stuck at a store that only got 10 for 400+ people that showed up to try and get one, they did it lottery style and I didn’t have a snowballs chance in hell of getting one. Any difference between the japanese model and the US one? Some serious enterpriser could be buying these up and making a bundle on launch e-bay.