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@Groucho

Your supposition is highly debatable. Microsoft was well over due for this reduction in price point. I think most posters would agree that the new price point is probably in line with production costs, and even if it were not for the low end model the profits gleaned from the higher end models which are only marginally more expensive to produce would far more then cover the losses. Even Live has probably covered its development costs by this point.