Microsoft has been trying to squeeze every dime out of the 360 before dropping the price. It's worked against them in every country to some degree.
Look at the American Market, the $400 launch SKU, after nearly 30 months, is only $350. That's insanity! It should be $300 or less by now.
The fact that they are just now, after over a year, starting to push that "Core' model to compete with Wii in Europe is ridiculous (and pointless now, you snooze you lose as they say)
And look at Japan, why didn't Lost Odyssey get its own bundle? How come MS hasn't been more aggressive on price, especially since so many once Ps-exclusive went Multi-Platform?
Microsoft made too many assumptions
A) Having Halo and the Exclusive GTA content would guarantee victory, its much more complicated race than that.
B) That attracting the Hardcore Market would eventually trickle down to attract the Casual Market. Wii proved that going straight for casuals works better.
Considering how awful Sony was to the consumer base at the begging of this gen, it surprises me that MS may be the ones remember as the idiots.
~This rant and more from the singing game geek!
