One thing about the $199 360 pricepoint...

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rendo said:

ultimate_123 said:

Its not a full fledged console thus not many people will buy it. Even casuals have enough sense as I've seen in the past few weeks. Now if the pro was to hit $199...

Are you insane?  I bought it.  I can get a HDD used and then it's the exact same thing as the Pro AND cheaper.  I think you underestimate the economic issues in the world and how much $100 means to a LOT of lower income families.

Those lower-income families are, by and large, not looking to get video game systems anyway, and even if they are, they're likely looking more toward the PS2: a popular system with a huge and relatively inexpensive library. They're passing over this generation entirely.

The people interested in this generation can, by and large, afford something in the $300-400 range. Yet even when the Arcade and its ancestors were in this bracket, the Arcade failed to outsell its bigger cousins. Price is not the issue here; previous price cuts on the HD consoles have shown this, and it shouldn't surprise anyone that the 360 Arcade price cut is once again following the pattern: a week of high sales, a week of somewhat lesser sales, and then a crash-and-burn back to normal levels.

All this has happened before. All this will happen again. Why is anyone surprised that all this is happening now?