Desperation from a company that makes profits in the BILLIONS every quarter? No carefully planned moves are what they are. The Xbox department has to show improvements and I think the recent promotions have show this. There were probably certain milestones that where put on them by higher people they had to reach before they could lower the price. If it wasn't for that billion spent on the rrod then I think they probably would have lowered the price before MGS4 released. As for being screwed with the price drop... *shrugs* obviously from the numbers being so low shows that people where expecting this and it's something that was widely considered to be happening in the coming holiday season. I think the Arcade system and a 20 dollar hdd are not a bad buy and even so you do get a 512 meg memmory card and 5 XBLA games. Lets not forget that Microsoft usually throws in two free games for the holidays.









