360 price cut not effective?

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Griffin said:

Hawkeye said:
They are trying to lure people to buy their 360 there... after this those people will think future shop is a great store and will buy 75% of their Xbox 360 games there.

 

But the store would need to sell atleast 8 games to each person to make this loss back.  Is this really a wise move, and if its a wise move then why would the store not give away equal deals to PS3 or wii buyers.

 

Future Shop is a store that makes pratically all its profit by hard selling in-store extended warranties. That's what they are trying to lure to people into - you come for the cheap deal but end up shelling out an extra $300 in warranties.

 

As for why they are doing this for the 360 and not the other consoles, I suspect they have found they have a much easier time pressuring 360 buyers into a warranty than the other two consoles, with the 360's history and all.