$1000 is the Estimated Release Price, its going to go up before it comes out, same thing happened with the PS2, id been saving for months to buy a PS2 and then when it came out in the shop it was $100 more than what id ordered and came with less parts!! no HDD and No Network , and Removing these parts that i wanted cost an Extra 100 *censored* i said! sony Responded with Pwn'ed in the Fizz Ace!