At first I was amused at the leak just before E3, scoffing that Microsoft doesn't know how to keep a secret. Now that I see the hardware is already shipping and will be on shelves this week, I'm pretty darned impressed that they managed to keep a lid on it for as long as they did. How do things like that work? Stores need to know what's coming, right? Hardware manufacturers have been assembling them for months, right? Wouldn't there be too many points of failure to be able to reasonably expect to keep a secret like that? I'm sure the penalties for leaking are swift and severe, but it's still hard to wrap my brain around that many people keeping a secret that well.