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I agree that $150 is too much to make any sort of dent on the Wii dominance, but the packing in with the 360 Arcade for $300 (or $100 more than the Wii package), makes things slightly more interesting.

You have to imagine that the presumed new market "casual" consumers are the ones who haven't bought the 360 yet en masse, so the $150 price doesn't matter to that market. It's the $300 that matters. And it will probably be marketed to them as a Wii HD, thus giving reason for the $100 premium.

Will a $100 premium, late-generation peripheral/system with a light library (of party-style games) sell well to the "casual" market? All signs from history that I can remember point to "No effin' way". I'm going with Xantar here, better luck next generation Microsoft.