Competition is good, for years you had no choice but buy an AS 332 if you wanted a large civil machine -no competition! (though the Blackhawk outsold the AS332 4 to 1 in Military sales not counting the US mil), in the mediums it has always been split pretty evenly between the AS365,S-76 and B412 on civil sales, so its good EC can sell the 225 but with sales for the S-92 out selling the 225 by more than 2 to1, and with the big backorder list for the 92 the delivery time for the 225 is much shorter, so the big operators order what they can get now! and i'm shore EC are offering some pretty good deals to get the 225 moving.
The 225 is at the end of the 330/332 design family the S-92A is the begining in 10 years time when we are buying S-92 B/C models to replace the 225 people will se the generation gap on designs.
As i said I had my time on the 332 i'm on 92's now I think the S-70/S-92 family leaves the 332/225 for dead and if I have to work on them again it's to soon!