Xbox 360 S - Sold out in the UK

[Alby_da_Wolf]

dharh said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

dharh said:

Slimebeast said:

Seece said:

What's interesting is, all the supermarkets are sending BACK phats to Microsoft, because they don't want to offer them at a discounted price.

Because they'd lose money on the phats, or they are seeing this huge demand for Slims and want to sell the more profitable Slims instead to these customers?

Probably due to multiple factors. Some of which being that slim is only slightly more expensive. Slim is going to be perceived as being less likely to die on you than a phat (until we find out the numbers, which could go either way). Slim is the new thing.

Wouldn't it make more sense to buy a discounted phat? The latest are quite reliable and this summer will kill quite a lot of the older ones still alive, so time will come when MS will only be able to replace broken phats with slims, instead of refurbished phats (not taking into account that slims already enjoy costs reductions, when economies of scale and production process refinement will kick in they'll become cheaper, maybe even than refurbishing old phats).

The stigma on phats is pretty big. Everytime I turn mine on (and its a late model) I always wonder, is now the time when its going to RROD. Why dance with the devil when you can dance with a new angel. The price difference is not that large.

Understandable, but if I wanted a XB360 my plan would actually be to buy a phat for less with the hidden agenda that should it break, being a recent and more reliable phat, it would do it quite late, with a very high probability that by then MS could only replace it with a Slim, so I'd get a working phat now for less, possibly replaced later, if necessary, with a Slim without having to pay the Slim's full price.

Precise enough statistics about the real average longevity of the latest phats would be necessary, though, as if their life expectation is little more than 3 years, so still short, but beyond the extended warranty, it would be necessary to "help" them RRoD before the warranty expires.