So I finally went on amazon.com, the XBO is $275-$350!?

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dasert said:

Sony are now selling their bundles in the UK and most of Europe at EXACTLY the same price as the Xbox One.

MS have Big hitting exclusives going into the holidays, Sony does not.

Sony won't and can't afford to go much lower they are in financial trouble with yet more billion loses just announced and the money to prop up their loss making departments, Smartphones etc has to come from somewhere.

MS can afford to go low and the FACT is Sony would go even lower if they were a successful money making company like MS.

Your facts are wrong. It doesn't work that way. But I might as well be talking to a wall, so the joke is on me.

• Sony PS4 = ~$370 (this is teh maximum it probably costs sony now to make if they are selling them at a profit, whch they are)
• For every publsihed game on a platform, the dev Pub/dev gets $30, platform holder $15, retailer $15.
• If a game is bundled with the console, teh retailer gets nothing from that game. The platform holder still has to give the pub their $30 though.
• So, Sony PS4 + bundled third party game = $400.

Take note, consoles don't primarily make their money from selling the console.