Rusdude

If you want a 4 Gb black nano right now for $199, try your nearest Microcenter. They made a price mistake in their latest flyer and put $199 instead of $249, but they're still honoring the price until the stock runs out in stores. There's a limit of one per customer and there're reports that they'll actually ship them to you if you call them and pay for shipping to your state/city. Slickdeals.net (as well as FatWallet) has a thread with a scan of the ad and me people succeeded in price-matching in Circuit City and Best Buy, but it really depends on the cashier/manager. That's about as hot of a deal as you can get on a spanking new Nano.

I think everyone just needs to take it easy and relax. Unless you are desperate for the console the week of launch, chances are that you'll have little trouble picking it up before Christmas. There's a talk that MS might be creating artificial shortages to hype up the release. Also, like someone else posted, stores are reporting that they're going to get 2nd shipment the week of launch. I can't post links yet but I suggest you all visit Kotaku.com and read a few pieces they have on this subject.