www.majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/09/burnout-3-is-coming-to-xbox-originals.aspx
My guess; Microsoft was all like eff you, and stole servers from EA to run themselves. This in turn was the cause of the XBL jackage, because MS was redirrecting so many resources in completing this mission. Which might be ALSO connected to that guy getting his account hacked because someone wanted the recons armour, so there were less ninjas watching these sorts of things. But that last part might just be to crazy to be true (who runs out of ninjas, I mean, EA can't have THAT many of their own... then again they do have Peter Moore now...).
ANYWAY, totally can't wait for this and will be playing it until the release of Paradise.