Again, Elite is going to be Microsoft's "money maker" to sucker those into paying $400 for a shiney black console and slightly larger Hard Drive. MS has to easily be making $50 or more now off those consoles even with the price drop. BTW, im one of those suckers but I paid just over $300 with Live.com cash back.
The Pro will slightly increase in sales, imho, at $300 and MS will make very little profit off that till the new chips are in full production.
The Arcade sales will increase dramatically to the point where some will sell out, and of course MS will either be breaking even on these consoles or losing a small chunk of cash. That depends on how much MS is paying to have those memory cards made, and how much credit is paid for the free XBLA titles, because the basic components aren't beefy (normal composite cable, no hdmi cable, etc.) and last I knew companies only saw a good 20% of the XBLA sales. So who knows? People will also be buying $200 Arcades once the Jaspers are confirmed to replace their current falcon or launch units.
It's just that simple.
