“You mean you got a 360? You bastard!” I’ve had this comment shot in my direction at least once every day over the last three… meetings, office visits, lunch, dinner – even at bars. On November 22nd, I had it at least a dozen different conversations that started with this comment. Know what’s funny? It’s usually from a fellow Microsoft employee, who didn’t think to pre-order – or worse – didn’t pre-order until September or October… I pre-order the weekend after I read about the 360 release date in IGN and saw that ebGames was selling out of pre-orders.

To those of you in gaming press that think that employees were given special consideration for consoles or that we’re miniacly twirling our mustaches while there’s a holiday shortage, re-consider it and call it bunk: there’s a whole bunch of people on the Redmond campus that are in the same boat as the rest of retail America.

And we make the freakin thing and yet a lot of people have no choice but to watch sites like Xbox 360 Tracker – go figure.