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MS says 'No' to Xbox 360 Price Drop |
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A lot of you may have been hanging on those well-stashed benjamins in anticipation of the rumored Xbox 360 price drop by around $100 USD before Christmas, well, prepare your mallets; not for your piggy banks, but for pounding grandma's unused pillow at the attic to relieve your frustration. As you might have guessed by now, official word has come from MS stating that there are currently no plans for a price drop this fall.It seems that the Bill Gates-owned company is confident enough on riding on the bad PR PlayStation 3 has been lately receiving (downgrade rumors, of course the price, etc.) that it won't make a price-cut effort to pad its current 10 million consoles sold lead over Sony's next-gen machine. It has been earlier speculated that the Xbox 360 will be offered in a cheaper price to better veer away the market's interest over the looming arrival of PS3.
Still, this may be a risky move for Microsoft's part because it may be overlooking the threat Nintendo's Wii is posing. Arguably having the most promising innovations so far, Wii is also expected to carry a price tag not higher than $250 USD.
Now that Microsoft has decided to keep the $299 pricetag on 360s, will it finally convince reluctant spenders to stop waiting for a price drop and start bagging their console, or have they just prodded them to wait a little longer not for PS3 perhaps, but for Wii? It's getting harder and harder to predict the outcome of these moves, what do you think?
Via Gamer Score Blog
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Lmfao! Nintendo Wii doesn't pose a threat to anything. It will be in last place this gen, 360 will be on top, & PS3 will be in second.
Besides, the Wii has horrible controls and everything especially if you played it at E3.
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realistically when the PS3 comes out it'll be about £200 more than a 360 (and tricky as hell to find 1 - just imagine the eBay prices...) so what would u prefer: a ps3 with zero games, a 360 with 5 games, or even a 360 & a Wii with 1 or maybe 2 game(s)??? Get the feeling the PS3 will go the way of the original Neo Geo - fantastic machine, but FAR 2 pricey.
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Sad thing is, my buddy way back when had a neo geo...so ppl will actually still buy it
But yeah, too soon for a price drop...man the PSP value pack has only dropped $20 in price and it's been out almost 2 years...
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and my 2 cents: if i can come up with an extra 250 bucks, i will definately be getting a wii
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I love my 360, but nobody in their right mind would buy the core, completely pointless, it's like wasting $60 (core + HDD = $400, + XBL headset, ethernet cord, remote = around $460)
So in other words, for most people, the PS3 is $100 more than the 360.
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Drop the price and you will sell more consoles. Therefore instead of selling 1million lets say you sell 1.5/2million cheaper. You will lose out to start will but you have other Million people buying software.
Come on MS if you wanna stand tall and get great sales.
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