Chances the ?Red Ring? becomes in issue this holiday season.

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libellule said:
Falcon is, let's say, the name of the project supposed to reduce the production cost of the Xbox360 + resolve failure problem.

I think Xbox360 can do something with this new "version" of their console because it may look as a new product for the consumers.

In another side, it depends of the numbers of Xbox360 "old version" on the shelves. I personnaly, I dont know how many Xbox360 old version are still waiting to be sold

  I doubt there are that many in the channel since Microsoft cut shipments waaaay back at the start of the year.  It didn't take a genius to figure out that Microsoft cut back shipments to clear channel inventory in anticipation of some "event".  The most likely event(s) that move would precede would be a price cut and/or a new model introduction (or both).  That is exactly what is happening.  Microsoft clearly didn't want to cut the price on existing models since they are already manufactured and the cost is already "sunk".  I think if you do a bit of research, Microsoft said they had "shipped" their 10 millionth console at the end of last year but they cut back shipments this year rather drastically.  If someone does the math, they can probably make a pretty good guess at what's in the channel and when the "old" units will more or less be cleared out.