Hardware Charts Week Ending Jan 10th

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Burner37 said:

Kerotan said:

DerNebel said:

Kerotan said:

Why? Doesn't it make sense to you that the X1 for some reason only dropped 43% week over week, when everything else had at least a 54% drop?

Yeah and then the fact Microsoft cut the price permanently after the week! But even after that it's still losing. 

I'm sure it's just for legal purpose. They had plan this when they saw the good sales in Nov/Dec not because of the probably poor sales of the first week.

And what legal purpose might that be? MS can't be had for false advertising, because all they need to do is say that their intention was to raise the price on 3 January, but a reevaluation on 2 January lead them to conclude that raising the price was a bad business decision. Done, end of story.

Rather than dreaming up a legal reason for why MS had no choice but to raise the price for 2 weeks, far simpler and more likely is that MS got feedback from retailers that the bottom had fallen out of Xb one sales. But aside from whether or not there were mysterious legal reasons for temporarily raising the price, market forces and the laws of economics dictate that when the price of a thing goes up, demand for it goes down, this is a fundamental principle of market economics MS and Xbox are not magically immune to this reality. And when the price goes up in a falling market (which first post holiday week most assuredly is; every year, for every product, ever since consumerism took over Christmas) demand goes down even more than what would normally occur. So for Xb one to be the only console (home or handheld) to experience a WoW drop of less than 50% is nothing short of an economic miracle. Everyone who actually has a semblance of understanding of market forces and economics will be absolutely astounded if the current VGC numbers stack up.