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I honestly don't know where they got the information, but back in 2004 there were a lot of people who claimed that Microsoft was forcing the XBox division to turn a profit on this generation or there wouldn't be a new XBox. The fact that the PS3 launched at such a high price took a lot of presure off of Microsoft to reduce the price of the XBox 360, and thus any need to break even on the generation became an easy task ...