Originally Posted by arthurleung 
Retailers are just adding salt to injury to rack up price even more.
The retailers will be even happier if M$ do indeed reduce the price as market wish, because there will be at least some person who pre-ordered not knowing the price drop and pay at the previous (double inflated) price.
I think microsoft is trying to do the same thing as hardware manufacturers. i.e. Massively inflated Core2Duo, 8800GTS/GTX launch price.
Price will come down once everyone in the higher end of the spectrum bought their "premium" copy at "premium" price.
Really, honestly, I think these premium buyers are not going to buy - but we'll know soon enough whether I'm right.