The first week of the Slim's introduction in the USA has been a roaring success.

That said, when the Slim has been rolled out worldwide for a few months, and the two new motion devices for the HD consoles are released, things could look different.

Do you feel it is Microsoft's plan to reap higher economic rewards from a few months of Slim sales at this price point before making a price cut?  Or are they planning to let the price remain until a cut sometime next year in the slow period?

yes, but your pool have only one option? i never saw this...

If people can remember the 360's roaring surprise success of 2008, it played out very similar to this.  MS first upgraded the SKU's to have 60GB HDDs, then discounted and cleared stock of old 20GB SKUs and "Cores", and then a few months later they made their big cut to all the new SKUs.

I expect over the next few months that an Arcade Slim SKU with built in wifi and maybe 1GB onboard memory, no hard drive will launch at $199, then when Kinect launches the prices will be cut $50, maybe more.

microsoft ussually comes out with a holiday sku which ussually is their best sku model with 2 games that range around $100 dollars at that time. I think that this holiday season it will follow that same model but it will substitute the games for a kinect. i dont think the xbox 360 s will drop in price at all this year, but it might just include the kinect for the holiday season sku.

Quite possible! But I don't know what their priorities are. They could just as easily reap the higher profits on the hardware in the short term and save price drops for early next year.

LOL epic poll!

And yes I believe its possible (and probable) that there will be a $50 pricecut.

Another possibility is providing a price cut only for people coming in with Kinect.

In other words, if Kinect is $150 (I know it will probably be less), offering a Slim Kinect bundle for $400, thereby granting a $50 price cut on the bundle.

You mean Xbox slender?

Sorry?

Ignore him he's just deflecting.