OOOOH I SO CALLED THIS.

I really think a price drop will hurt Microsoft more than help.
Premium @ 350 vs 40gb @ 399

is better than

Premium @250 40gb @ 299

If for no other reason, then for Blu-Ray.

No problem. It's not even bad English, just misleading.

This is actually a theory I've been thinking about for some time:

Nintendo obviously needs some increased production capacity. They probably do not want to have to build more factories. However, they may have some retooling to do, either basic maintenence in the factories or potentially attempting to increase production a little bit. Before the holiday period, they may not have wanted to do this - the lack of production while it is getting retooled would murder their holiday sales.

However, after the holidays comes a lull - historically at least. It would be the perfect time to begin rollouts for some factory retools. If some of the factories are offline getting retooled, they would necessarily have fewer consoles to send out. And if there is a delay or something in one of the factories, it could cause fewer enough units to be made to adversely affect sales to even this extent.

I only say this because this whole year the Wii shipments have been *very* odd... almost cyclicly odd. I have absolutely no evidence that this may be true, and it is complete conjecture. It just makes a little bit of sense in my head, so I thought I'd see what y'all thought.

LOL.  Too bad I can't drink... legally.

did the ps3 have another price cut? cause with those sales it seems like it

IIRC Blu-Ray's major advances came on Sunday (EDIT: I think I'm actually wrong about that...) which is a bit late for them to majorly effect last week's sales. We should see more clearly the effects of blu-ray's win this week.

 Stockpiling is the ONLY reason that this is happening. There's no other reason why shipments would be so low this week, there has never been a huge decrease like this IIRC except for Xmas when they were totally sold out, and had just used up their stockpile.

Mm ,now that I look closer looks like if the 360 has received some 30K cut for january ....well done then .

Uhh... no.

But I will give you points as that was the most clearly thought out respons that I have ever gotten to the whole supply issue and actually makes sense.

The reason why I don't believe that is because they wouldn't go about doing this with Brawl and Wii fit and maybe Kart coming out in the next three months, when they'd need to get a lot of units out.  If they were doing this, they'd probably wait to the summer lull.