Australia gets price cut: Xbox 360 Core now same price as Wii |
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The price cut may be harmful to Sony, after the company announced that Australia's PlayStation 3 starter packs will no longer be available once supplies run out. However, the slash is definitely a challenge targeted at the Nintendo Wii.
Australia's Xbox director David Mclean says, "Since launch we've always had a fairly deliberate strategy to secure the hardcore gamers first ... but now that we've done that job it's time to expand the market."
Daniel Morse, game analyst at GfK also said, "You get a true next-generation device for the same price as the Wii and on top of that you can play Halo." The price cut may be considered as good timing for Microsoft, because a day before the event, Nintendo Australia announced that there was no plans for a price cut for the Wii.
Some casual games that the Xbox has lined up are Guitar Hero III: Rock Legends, Rock Band and Dance Dance Revolution Universe. Mclean furthers the challenge against the Wii and says, "We are starting to see some of those real social gaming experiences and with the console at the right price point it should enable us to be somewhat more competitive."
Via The Age
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sony is pretty much dead now. there is no way they can compete. a 360 for the same price as the wii? thats awesome! just in time for the halo 3 frenzy too. this news pretty much cements sony into last place for the rest of this generation.
Were you molested by Ken Kutaragi when you were a little girl? Did he touch your special parts. Oh and by the way Halo is a piece of *****.
This price cut is only for Australia you dumb piece of S.h.i.t whore. Do you even know how to read. Go back to washing dishes you dumb broad.
2008 will be Sony's time. 2 years ago it was Xbox 360's year (mainly because it was first next-gen out), This year is the obviously Wii's year with the outselling every console/handheld out there, next year will be the PS3. The reason why is because most of the PS3's best games are coming out next year and there will definitely be more software and expansions (Home) on software. There will also most likely be price cut around one Sony's Major games. Thats how its gonna go.
We have two 360's, each with Halo 2 SP Edition at our church youth group, and this Xbox guy is right that Xbox is in second place for the party factor. Everybody, from the college students to the 7th graders, can just pick up a controller (there are 20) and play. I have a Wii, and it's pretty good, but Xbox 360 is in 2nd.
True, but doesn't mean it will stay that way
OMg dude your a retard MS said there phasing out the core anybody who buys the core now is a total ***** who is going to get the money raped out of him when he has to buy a HDD. not only that the core(20% 360 owners are core users) is going to be phased out your going to be forced into buying bigger HDD to fit all the downloads including movies and arcade games. 360 owners don even get 20 gigs they get 13 gigs in reality most of the space is takin up buy crap.
yes, yes, attack my gender, that will change things.
M$ is so desperate in trying to get customers their way. Their low-ball tactic is worst than Sony's temporary price cut. After cutting the prices down last week, it wasn't good enough so they had to do it again just to catch up. LMAO
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In order to get the full Halo 3 experience, a "core" user would have to buy a 20GB HDD for $100, a wireless adapter for another $100, $100-$140 for a wireless-N router since they "need" lagless gaming, $50 for a wireless controller because wired controllers are soooooo yesteryear, and $50 for XBlowx Live. Wow...what a bargain! One would have to spend $700+ to get the complete Halo 3 experience?
I'll build a computer and wait for a pirated version thanks.
yea you're a biiiitch go die biiiiiitch
That's how it works, cut the price on the crap version and hope people get sucked in and keep buying the should've-been-standard add-ons.
Sony's still got the land down under
What are you talking about you don't even have a gender, your Stupidity like MCS is the only type of person we associate you guys with.
Oh BTW no one will even buy xbox in Australia Cause wii and PS3 are already on top. No amounts of price cut and Halo 3 will ever change that, just like in japan. Besides they don't even like FPS.
But Xbox fantards don't want to lose hope, they still think 360 is a superior system lol
The fact is PS3 is far more technically advance than Wii and 360, also with the Wii and PS3 you don't get RRoD or 33% failure rates amazing huh.
ps3 will do better in the comming years with price cuts, and people getting tired of waiting for them. People (casuals) want a wii cuz many oters do, but xbox.... man i rather have a computer with the same specs. that basicaly what the xbox is. Its a computer with a different interface, a controller, and plays game that will be out in 1-2 years later on pc. Now pc is a different story. 1 is you dont have to pay another 50$ just to go online, ontop of your usual phone bill.
All i know is, i have a ***** load of games to play this Holiday. What do you (ps3 *****s) have to play?
Stealth your a humiliation to humanity. O yea, and the fact is the ps3 sucks so much balls more than the Wii and 360, also with the wii and 360 you get games to play amazing huh?
Yer of course you would, with Bioshock getting perfect 10 form 10 in reviews on 360 but only averaging 8 from 10 for PC you have just kicked yourself up the ass.
And for the other bull*****ters here is Australias hardware sales for this week -
360 weekly 2,505, TOTAL 202,854
PS3 weekly 2,412 TOTAL 69,163
360 outsells the PS3 and soon the full price drop and games like Bioshock and Halo will also kick in the same month along with the Elite, the PS3 is in last place here in Australia.
ktm911 you are full of crap, so when was the last time you played a quilty game like World of Warcraft etc and you didnt pay FAR MORE THAN THE 360 OWNERS DO PER YEAR?.
We got Lair, Warhawk, Heavenly Sword, Uncharted Drake's Fortune, Folklore, Ratchet and Clank Future Tools of Destruction, Haze, Unreal Tournament 2007 and the release of Home and all the other other downloadable PSN games. I think yeah we PS3 owners are set. Oh and BTW your the *****got. Dumbass
Anyway Bioshock doesn't look that appealing to me. Looks like a piece of ***** actually.