Keeping for collector value was one of the uses presented. I am dismantling that idea as being futile.
It won't take Xbox generation kids to have nostalgia 20 years from now, because there are collectors today already all over the same era PS2 and GameCube, but nobody cares about original Xbox. Its honestly one of the most undesirable systems out there to collect for. Sports games, TV licenses, multiplatform ports, PC FPS ports, there just isn't anything that you HAVE GOT to have an Xbox for. Xbox just doesn't have any real identity outside Halo and Halo is just not unique or good enough or rare enough to make it collectible.
Really not even trying to be negative this time, its just the truth from the collector perspective, it's just not a desirable system.