| MonstaMack said: I don't think it will cost a lot, but it will get them a profit. Hell my friend just called MS and they now want $15 to ship a transfer cable to him when he bought his recent Elite (he bought the core unit 4+ years ago and It's finally crapping out, so he's buying a elite). They also no longer ship out the free box/coffins for your RROD 360. The hard drive is over priced. You can get a 1TB for $100 or less at a retail store for the PC, yet MS is charging much more then that for a simple 120 gig HD for the 360. The wireless adaptor is $100ish for the new N one, when it should be priced at $50 or $60 at the most. I think MS is more geared towards profit now and want to eliminate their losses. I think Natal however will be priced as cheap as possible to get people to buy them and hopefully other Natal games. |
If they cut a CPU to cut costs recently as annouced I'd say it's very likely MS have little room to play between making a profit and making a loss with Natal. The loss of the CPU to me implies they want to launch with the lowest possible price but aren't willing to eat a lot of cost at this point. I would therefore expect Natal to sell initiall around cost or at a slight loss. I doubt they will see many profits unless they cut the CPU to allow for a small amount of profit (which is possible, too).
I know they charge a lot for other peripherals, but they can't afford that route with Natal I think. If it doesn't take of well then not only are they going to loose a lot of face after the hype, but they allow the Wii to continue unchallenged and give Sony a chance to gain more traction with their motion controls than MS.
Natal I'm sure will be as cheap as they can make it without incurring heavy losses selling it.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
