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Due to disposable incomes, people can afford to buy new and more cars. The car industries are stockpiling because car sales have increased and are predicted to further increase the coming years. Companies profits and revenues have risen. They can therefore supply more cars.

This article describes the launch plans and the Xbox marketing chief's opinions on the profits made shortly after the launch in late November. He sais that even though all pre-orders have been sold out, due to the production, marketing, and development costs, there will be a very low margin at first. So even though the demand is very high, the price and supply are to inelastic to provide a higher margin for Microsoft.