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rajendra82 on 03 December 2008
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tuoyo said:
bardicverse said:
Its about quality. People are learning that the 360 Arcade has the old processor chipsets, which were prone to overheating. Its sort of Microsoft's "fire sale", no pun intended.

The Wii on the other hand, has few if any hardware issues, and a lot of the general population only looks to get games/systems around the holidays. With Wii Fit, Mario Kart, SSBB and others available for this year, it gives those people games they really would like to try.

Also, the other part is that the Wii is in stock, as opposed to last holiday season. These people might not have been looking pre-holiday season, and are now able to fulfill the requests for Wii systems.

Most people who want 360 systems want Elite versions and won't settle for arcade versions, which are still more expensive than the Wii.

I wasn't even aware of this and i own a 360 and visit VGChartz everyday.  How is the average person going to know that?  And even if the Pro was cheaper than Wii, 360 would still get outsold by a wide margin so that is clearly not the reason.

EDIT: Actually the Pro is cheaper than the Wii (at least it is in the UK). 

The reason you were not aware of this is because it's complete and utter bullshit.  The latest shipped Xbox 360 arcade units were actually the first one to be spotted in the new Jasper configuration with the 65nm GPU.  The other two SKUs followed suit shortly.  As usual you are likely to find old and repackaged systems hanging around on the shelves in all three formats, but if you can decipher the last five digits of the serial number, the consoles made after Week 43 in 2008 are all Jaspers regardless of whether they are Arcade, Pro, or Elite.  The Arcades are not comprised of some fire sale batch of refurbished consoles still subject to RROD.

P.S. I am defending Microsoft here although I don't own an Xbox360, and I am not sure I ever will, as my Wii/PS3/PC combo will probably get me nearly every good game with the exception of a handful of exclusives.  All I want to defend is the truth.