drkohler said:
Look, this is a site that has visitors from all over the world. Like it or not, the US $ still is a currency everyone can relate to, so quoting local prices in US $ rather than local currencies is a simple convenience for all readers. Maybe I am thinking too fast for you (and your alter ego Seece as well), or you are intentionally playing dumb bringing up a straw man "US price cuts". I am not going to discuss manufacturing prices (again and again and again over the years, particularly with you two). I assume there are readers knowledgable enough in mass manufacturing/electronics to see the simple points I make. There is a peculiar group of readers that apparently are not, and feel the need to divert the discussion (particularly when it comes to manufacturing and production costs of XBoxes, like there is some unexplainable miracle looming behind that particular gadget. So to sum up: For the first group, it would be simple to reproduce the calculation that a $229 shop price XBox360 250G Kinect + Software + Live) price is sold at a loss to MS, while the latter group will simple go "Lalalalala". |
You really are talking utter rubbish, everything you've said has been completely irrelevent to what Kowen said, which was with a price cut in Europe the X360 could have handily beaten the PS3. It hasn't had a price cut in Europe. Then you go talking about manufacturing costs (and completely guessing X360 is sold a loss despite A) the division making mega profit (and don't use that line about there being other products in there that skew the numbers, if anything they're the ones that are making a loss and the X360 ecosystem is profiting higher than the division is.) and B) it hasn't had a price cut in 3+ years, yet years ago MS announced they were profiting on X360 HW and Kinect is said to cost less than $60 to manufacture. So be quiet unless you know what you're actually talking about rather than sounding off a load of nonsense.
