Some forward-thinking gamers, like James Combs, 28, of Waterloo, reserved his console in May and picked it up at Gamestop in College Square Mall in Cedar Falls with little trouble. Combs isn’t your ordinary video game fan. He bought a 62-inch high-definition television to take advantage of the Xbox’s high-definition capabilities.

“I’d been planning to buy a really nice TV for awhile. The Xbox just added fuel to the fire,” he said. His 60-hour work weeks have seriously cut into his gaming time, so Combs has only played the system about eight hours. But that is enough time for him to appreciate the high-definition graphics from the game “Kameo: Elements of Power,” a fantasy adventure game starring a female elf princess. This was his favorite after reading several video games xbox reviews.