I don'tthink your answer counts for much, as you don't really have a position beyond opinion.

The precedent so far worldwide is that the pricecuts to lowest "nexgen" console hasn't taken the 360 out of third place, and the 20-GB Pro System sale this past summer was not a a pricecut that changed the relative standing of the 360.

I hope the 360 sells well, but given all the actual facts so far, it's more for something to give some points why it would sell well...

(strongly looking at an Arcade unit myself this autumn...)

Woops. It's from NeoGAF. The first one is from VGC, one of our users.

Here is that link to FutureShop

There's a difference between honest opionion and blatently just making stuff up to suit your ends.

It looks like you can't tell the difference.

Just in case you haven't worked it out. Your posts are the latter.

I went to the Futureshop site and it says the sale will end 9/11/08!

I don't need that stuff and more than 50% of people don't care. For those people the Arcade is an excellent choice.

Why is it that the people who have a major problem with the Arcade SKU are PS3 fans?

"Why is it that the people who have a major problem with a gamer's individual preferences are 360 fans?"

See, I can make false fanboyish general statments too.

Well as long as people don't put the proviso "for me" to make the statement "The Arcade is rediculously gimped for me" it comes off as a retarded general statement.

Do you want me to do a head count on the recent Arcade price cut threads for people with a known PS3 bias saying that the arcade model is gimped, noone wants an Arcade, etc etc?

i think this price cut will do more than the one in july. 3 of my friends were waiting for this cut to pick up their 360.

I expect 200K in sales for the first week of the price cut....then levelling off at least 20K higher than usual

The more interesting pondering to do is what would Microsofts move be if the price cut doesn't work? I mean if it works the response from Sony is clear, they can answer with a price cut of their own. But if the price cut do not bring the xbox360 sales solidly above the PS3 in the US, I am not sure what Microsoft could possible try next, apart from maybe buying EA and making all their games Xbox360 only.

The reality is that Microsoft desperately need this price cut to get their sales surging. They are already losing credibility with 3rd party devs and a weak response to this price cut could be devastating in the long run. When cross platform titles like Madden sells 550,047 on the PS3 in the US and 879,634 on the Xbox360, even though the Xbox360 has over twice as many consoles out there then it is a clear sign of trouble in paradise for Microsoft.