Why? Well, for starters, you've got the biggest game in the universe, now complete with street date! Expect me to have mine (65 nm please?) all bought and set up prior to Sept. 25th.

Can't wait that long to drool? Kotaku has some amazing demo footage, and MAN those new weapons look fun. Here's some more in case that didn't completely bowl you over:

Additionally, those sick, sick little cuties over from Happy Tree Friends are also coming to the 360 via XBLA, Kotaku reports.

But, you know there's a darker side. First off, ever wanted to see the cocky, brilliant, brilliant-yet-cocky J Allard looking silly? Well, he lost a bet to N'Gai Croal, and now he has dreads! That's the daddy of the Xbox, in case you didn't know.

And the 360 continues to be plagued by crappy, crappy failure rates and customer service. Peter Moore went so far as to dismiss the failures as normal breakage, sort of (read the entire interview - he definitely stops short of saying its not acceptable). Now, with modded units being banned from XBL (opening the door for a flood of unusable-online consoles on eBay, buyer beware!), all eyes on are 360 repair service awaiting the first "my new Xbox is banned?" calls. But these calls usually go all wrong - check out this poor fella, who got yelled at, interrupted and insulted by the customer "service" rep. Ouch.

So yeah. Neat system, great games, lousy failure rate and even worse relief from the big Xbox repair center in the sky.