X360 price drop $100 bucks off every sku!

[Just_Ben]

mrstickball said:
I would assume that the CAD prices were going to drop $100, and maxconsole decided to extrapolate the Canadian information.

About dropping the price before Falcon:

When Falcon launches, I assume there will still be 1.0m to 1.5m consoles that are the old non-Falcon consoles. MS needs to sell these 1.0-1.5m consoles before Falcon becomes embedded in every store, because when Sept-Dec hits, they're going to move the vast majority of consoles. Which would MS prefer, selling a ton of these old non-Falcon consoles that not only cost more, but are more prone to break, or the new, cheaper, better, more reliable Falcon's that make MS more cash 2 ways both with more reliablity (less returns) and cheaper hardware itself.

IMO, that'd make the most sence to MS, to drop the price, liquidate the non-Falcon's, then when Halo and GTAIV hit, have the Falcons at retailers, selling out, and turning a profit for MS, and stopping the hemorraging of console failures, since Falcons *should* fix most of the issues.

 Well, if they are already in store an produced, you most likley sell them. Or do you think, microsoft will throw them away? These units don't go away, so drop the price if you produce new ones. Drop it know and you may be sell a lot more know and have to produce more of the shitty ones.