Those kiosks are gonna show movies

For those following the story of Xbox kiosks appearing in stores in the last few days… it looks like your chances of playing Halo on them in the near future aren’t very good. An Electronic Boutique employee posted the following tidbit to the usenet newsgroup alt.games.video.xbox today:

I work at EB and opened up our X-Box demo thingy and helped install it, only to find out that there was no X-Box in there, just a TV, two controlers, and the cool looking stand w/lited up posters and stuff.
There was a number for installation instructions that I called, and told them that we were missing our X-Box, they told me that the X-Box’s would arrive “at a later date”. They also told us that EB was the only stores that got these units today. Then I asked him what game would be in it, and he said as far as he knew it would be a video that showed previews of a bunch of different games, then “at a later date, closer to launch” we would get playable demos.

So, movies on the kiosks now, games ‘at a later date’. Bummer. (Thanks to Harry Al-Shakarchi for the heads-up.)