A friend sent me an email saying he had a buddy who was going to buy an Xbox 360, but wanted to know if he should wait "for any reason...".  I told him if we dropped the price before Sony ships, I'd give him the difference myself.  (Note to Kotaku: This doesn't apply to anyone else but Chris's friend--I can just see the headline now.)

But, just to be sure, I checked again with several people who know, and I was assured that we have no plans to change the price of the Xbox 360 this fall.  In fact, the PR group supplied this "official statement".

"Microsoft has no plans to change the price of the Xbox 360 Core or Xbox 360 SKUs this fall."

As for the reports going around, they probably relate back to our overall plans to reduce the price of all the console components over the life of the console.