360 price cut in US?

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Kyros said:

Are they going to MAKE $250 per console on the extra million sold?

I would really like to know what their average lifetime profit for a sold system is. How many games does a normal customer buy during the lifetime? I think for the PS2 it was ~10 games. I suppose Microsoft makes 10$ per sold game thats 100$. Then most gamers will pay for accessories (1 or two controllers, akku loader, Wifi, hard-disc, HD player, headset) I would think at least another 50-100$.
Add Xbox live with possibly 20-30$ profit per year and you come really close to 250$ per console. (All numbers pulled out of my behind).

But giving up the $250 million at the time of the cut s not the same as making $250 million over the next three years as the people buy product, due to interest and the like.  $250 million over three years is more like $320 million or more in actual dollars, plus the hit against their quarterly statements.  

The point is that the average poster on this site throws out price cuts as if the only factor involved is that the company "wants to" so that they "win".  There's just so many more factors involved than that - the state of the dollar globally, production costs, the consumer economy in each market, supply, demand, etc etc.