E3 is always a bad idea, as is listening to any "hype" because no developer will admit that their stuff is going to be useless. and frankly the idea get weaker every year, for example, I keep my XBox360 in my house and I'm pretty sure everyone else does too, it's not really set up to be a handheld, so why do we need the XBox360 Slim? It's still not gonna be used as a handheld and it's going to stay on the same shelf as XBox360's so what possible purpose could it serve?
O I see having checked into possible purposes for the XBox 360 Slim I have found out it's true raison d'etre, it turns out that between XBox games, DLC, Windows and all the other shit they currently produce Microsoft felt they weren't squeezing enough of people's hard-earned cash out of them.