Will the XB1 go back to regular price after the Holiday?

[Normchacho]

Landguy said:

cheshirescat said:
Microsoft has painted themselves into quite a corner. On the one hand I doubt they would like to continue losing so much on each console sold but at the same time bringing the price back up to $400 is basically resigning the rest of the year to sony again. It's an interesting conundrum they have on their hands.

Not sure they are losing anything at $349 and no added games.  The cost of the system at launch was less than what they were selling it for.  After they dropped the Kinect, they skould have been in the black by $30-50 (at the $399 price point).  But, the $349 with games has to be a loss for sure.

The most accurate estimates we have said that at launch it was $396 to make without the Kinect. That of course also makes no mention of development costs.

Even now it's highly unlikely that they are making any money at $349 even without games.

Like I mentioned earlier, I don't know if it makes sense for them to keep the price so low just to be competitive in one or two markets.