My XBOX360 is in Mexico. I’m at Target Drooling.

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Halo came out Tuesday morning. Wow, it looks cool! I heard on the first day there were a million matches in session at any one time. A million. Guess how many were played at my house? Zip!

Instead, I went to Target with a friend of mine and we left nose prints and drool all over the plexiglass case that holds the Xbox 360 games. That was probably almost as fun as actually playing it. Right.

Afterward, feeling just slightly jealous and quite a bit jilted, I flipped off the Bioshock games with not one but both my middle fingers. It was that game that crashed my system after all. It felt good, in a way.

Then, to ensure that the Bioshock games were properly chastised, I gave them a glare they won’t soon forget. That felt even better.

Later, after I had calmed down, I read in the paper people camped out for one, maybe two days just to get their hands on the first copies that came out just after Midnight. Wow!

Bill Gates signed the first copy sold at the local Bellevue, WA store. He even worked the cash register, pausing to comment on how the register would have functioned better if it had been running Linux instead of Windows (that was a joke).

The word is that Halo 3 might just save the Xbox 360. Is it any wonder, then, that Bill was on hand to usher in the new software savior? Halo is turning out to be, from initial estimates, a far better game than anyone had anticipated and people will buy it in droves.

But that left me wondering: would you buy an Xbox 360 just to play Halo3? Would you buy any system just because of one game? Microsoft is betting you will. Will you?

Today’s cool fact about McAllen, Texas (although I suspect the 360 is actually in Mexico by now)- from www.wikipedia.com:

“According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 119.8 km² (46.3 mi²). 119.1 km² (46.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²) [of] it (0.63%) is water.”

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