Analyst Says Two 360 Versions At Launch

An analyst with Piper Jaffray believes that there will be two Xbox 360 skus at launch, reports GameDailyBiz. From the article: "Microsoft knows $299 is important...They know that historically that's been the launch sweet spot, but they also don't want to take such large hardware losses this time. Of the 1 million units Microsoft is expected to have available at launch, I expect 80% of them will probably be the more expensive SKU, because that's what early adopters are going to want."

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From Wikipedia: SKU

A Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) is an identifier used for management of an inventory.

The acronym SKU is used almost exclusively when talking about this concept. Furthermore, it's pronounced as a word, rather than three letters, as if you were saying the English work skew.

Merchants assign SKUs to every product they sell (as opposed to an EAN which is assigned by the manufacturer). This SKU is then used to order, locate and manage the inventory of a product. Each product and variant of a product has a different SKU, for example different flavours or models of product have independent SKUs.