Big losses? No I don't think so.

Any loss being made right now can be made back simply by that person owning the console. I've never heard of someone getting a console in its 1st year and not buying anything else for that console the rest of the generation. Especially with Xbox's track record with game sales.

Yeah and they have advertising incomes with XBL too... People trying to downplay XBO selling like hot cake by pointing out that they are probably loosing money on it have very little understanding of the marks mechanics... The console market has never been about making money on the device during the initial purchase but on everything else after that... Accessories, games, subscriptions, ads... That's a lot like the printers marks or like the camera market when it was dominated by film cameras...
Slashing your price even if it means taking a bigger loss is an excellent strategy.. Even if they don't improve their market share in the long run (which I doubt they won't) it'd still be better than doing nothing.. Having more consoles in the consumers hands always generate more profit in the end... Especially the more they AR the more like they are to buy more stuff cause more people around them are buzzing about content and stuff...

Anyway that's not why I came here today...

Just wanted to let the Sonic fans around here know that we have Sonic dash on the Windows 8.x and Windows phone store available in F2P

Great fun, sonic dash that is. I'm more into sonic jump tho

Well that's good to see really. Glad they kept the price.

Do we have December best sellers charts for Amazon yet?

Er .. pretty sure that isn't a statement from Microsoft but something Starcraft anticpates them saying ...

Its not official 

Dammit Starcraft! It's not fair to tease someone like that who's only just woken up

Was wondering why I couldn't find anything about it.

Supposedly they were profiting off XBO when it first launched so id say no.