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Bladeforce on 27 May 2010
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ramses01 said:
One possible reason for the high initial price that occured to me is that NATAL is going to be heavily supply constrained at launch. At the $99 price, MS would probably move ~10-12 million NATALs during the christmas quarter. At $150 that will be closer to 5-7 million.

 

 

10-12 million in 3 months? Very over done there more like 10-12 million in like never. during christmas maybe if it's lucky 500,000

 



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