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Xbox360: $50 Price Cut coming (weekend of 7/6)
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drakesfortune
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The elite needs to be $350. Either that or give me a pro in black at $300 and I'd be happy.
Scottlarock
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does it still come with the 2 free games?
McHuj
Member
I don't think you'll see price cuts on any peripherals anytime soon. Maybe a 60GB HD instead of the 20GB HD at $100. The peripherals are pure profit for MS.
I would have thought we would have seen some bigger price cuts this year, maybe there will be another this holiday. Back in 2005, I would have bet my left nut that the xbox was going to be 199 by xmas 2008.
I would have thought we would have seen some bigger price cuts this year, maybe there will be another this holiday. Back in 2005, I would have bet my left nut that the xbox was going to be 199 by xmas 2008.
gregor7777
Banned
Interesting. I wonder if they're still making money off the mainline sku after the $50 price drop.
i dont think sony will respond to this cut. with all the talk about reducing manufacturing costs to achieve profitability and all that,they cant afford to drop the price 50 dollars. consumers will see that the ps3 40gb is already a better value wit free online,wireless, and twice the HDD capacity. no need for sony to drop their price.
MirageDwarf
Member
$50 is not gonna make any major difference.
gregor7777
Banned
MirageDwarf said:
Yes, it will. There will be $50 more in the wallets of people who purchase a 360.
What odd timing.
My first thought is that they should have done this before GTA4, not after. I can't pretend to know what they're thinking, but I would imagine that they weren't expecting to have to drop the price because there would be excessive demand due to the release of GTA4. When that didn't exactly go according to plan, they turned to a price drop to drive hardware sales.
My first thought is that they should have done this before GTA4, not after. I can't pretend to know what they're thinking, but I would imagine that they weren't expecting to have to drop the price because there would be excessive demand due to the release of GTA4. When that didn't exactly go according to plan, they turned to a price drop to drive hardware sales.
Grampa Simpson
Banned
Add a Waggle Wand and Deca Sports to each one, and there might be something there.omg rite said:
MirageDwarf
Member
Was it long term? What I am saying is there will be temporary bump only.GhaleonEB said:
It could be just me but 360 looks overpriced to me for what it offers at current price point plus what you have to pay for other services and accessories. I'm not talking about game library.
Chiggs said:
Xbox tech support (or specifically, xbox support in general) is a really weird dichotomy. Sometimes I've had to deal with the worst idiots around, barely being able to get them to understand anything I was saying, and vice versa...and sometimes I get through to people who seem to know what they're doing, know English very well, and everything goes swimmingly. They have got to have at least two different support stations, and if you looked hard enough, theres probably an forum/website that lists when to call to get through to someone coherent...
So getting back to your warranty problem...they didn't refund you?
The Librarian
Banned
Excellent news. The timing strange, though.
Classic_Gs
Member
That sounds about right, but I have to say I expected the price cut to be $100 for the Pro unit.omg rite said:
Its the week before E3.Dax01 said:
TheMan
Member
MirageDwarf said:
pretty much. 300 seems like a good price to people with lots of money and to kids who live at home and don't pay bills, but for the rest of the world, 300 is still a lot of money for a console. Gas prices are insane and affect everything else; just the other day there was a story on cnn about a gallon of milk costing something like 7 dollars (!!!) in hawaii. Obviously that's just one state but nontheless, magic pricepoint is gonna prolly be 200 dollars.
BigBlackGamer
Member
TheMan said:
I agree for the most part but it does get them closer to that pricepoint and rather waiting another year or 2 to get the premium to 200$ I think it's fine that they are slowly chipping away at the price.
Randy Lanzarote
Member
So, I'm guessing a $50 price drop ahead of E3 and to stimulate some demand over the summer, and then another $50 to see in Q4 and Jasper.
That would make the most amount of sense anyway, although for its third Christmas you'd really expect it to be $199. But then, these are harder times I guess.
That would make the most amount of sense anyway, although for its third Christmas you'd really expect it to be $199. But then, these are harder times I guess.
MirageDwarf
Member
Oh...I agree. Wii is overpriced from day one.zaidr said:
No one else finds it odd only the 20GB pro is listed with its price cut? 
So let us take guesses now. Will the incoming 60GB premium still be $349 or less? My guess is it will be $329, since MS won't want to annoy everyone who buys a 20GB pro. But they probably will anyway once they find out the 60GB system is incoming for a little more cash.
So let us take guesses now. Will the incoming 60GB premium still be $349 or less? My guess is it will be $329, since MS won't want to annoy everyone who buys a 20GB pro. But they probably will anyway once they find out the 60GB system is incoming for a little more cash.
Mrbob said:No one else finds it odd only the 20GB pro is listed with its price cut?
So let us take guesses now. Will the incoming 60GB premium still be $349 or less? My guess is it will be $329, since MS won't want to annoy everyone who buys a 20GB pro. But they probably will anyway once they find out the 60GB system is incoming for a little more cash.
probably not. too close to the pro price for it to work.
pr0cs
Member
I was hoping the arcade model would be $199.
I don't know how much I'm going to believe this price drop annoucements, doesn't seem to make much sense to me to drop it now. I expected them to drop in August/Madden-time.
Perhaps Microsoft is seeing the PS3 finally start chipping away at the 360's monumental lead in North America and are countering with a price drop now?
I don't know how much I'm going to believe this price drop annoucements, doesn't seem to make much sense to me to drop it now. I expected them to drop in August/Madden-time.
Perhaps Microsoft is seeing the PS3 finally start chipping away at the 360's monumental lead in North America and are countering with a price drop now?
Mrbob said:No one else finds it odd only the 20GB pro is listed with its price cut?
So let us take guesses now. Will the incoming 60GB premium still be $349 or less? My guess is it will be $329, since MS won't want to annoy everyone who buys a 20GB pro. But they probably will anyway once they find out the 60GB system is incoming for a little more cash.
60GB Pro? Is there any proof behind that?
Mrbob said:No one else finds it odd only the 20GB pro is listed with its price cut?
So let us take guesses now. Will the incoming 60GB premium still be $349 or less? My guess is it will be $329, since MS won't want to annoy everyone who buys a 20GB pro. But they probably will anyway once they find out the 60GB system is incoming for a little more cash.
I'm hoping this is to burn through the last stocks of the 20GB Premium, before introducing a 60GB Jasper Premium in September. *hopes*
OnBackOrder
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Dark FaZe said:
$300 is far from a mass-market price point.
Skiptastic
Member
Man, if the Elite goes down below $400, I might get an Elite at Costco and trade in my Premium. Lord knows I could use the extra storage space.
Mrbob said:No one else finds it odd only the 20GB pro is listed with its price cut?
So let us take guesses now. Will the incoming 60GB premium still be $349 or less? My guess is it will be $329, since MS won't want to annoy everyone who buys a 20GB pro. But they probably will anyway once they find out the 60GB system is incoming for a little more cash.
Isn't MS switching to 60GB HDDs because the parts for 20GB HDDs aren't being mass produced anymore? Sony did the same thing and said that the 40GB HDD was actually cheaper to make than the 20GB.
B-Rad Lascelle
Banned
Actually we're coming up to Christmas #4.sionyboy said:
2005 - Perfect Dark Zero
2006 - Gears of War
2007 - Halo 3
2008 - Gears of War 2
I won't correct the math here, but this line gave me a chuckle.zaidr said:
When the first price cut was leaked, we only knew of the Pro cut as well.Mrbob said:No one else finds it odd only the 20GB pro is listed with its price cut?
So let us take guesses now. Will the incoming 60GB premium still be $349 or less? My guess is it will be $329, since MS won't want to annoy everyone who buys a 20GB pro. But they probably will anyway once they find out the 60GB system is incoming for a little more cash.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=175076
We had to speculate about the pricing on the other SKUs then as well, because the store was only advertising the Pro SKU.
Also, Shane Kim at E3 last year:
http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/07/e3-interview--1.html
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OnBackOrder
Member
B-Rad Lascelle said:
Wow the cheapest you could buy a 360 was $299 damn near 3 years ago and now the cheapest you can buy one is $279 (probably $249 after this price-drop). That is just ridiculous.
disappeared
Banned
_leech_ said:
If Microsoft doesn't, most retail chains will anyway.
Microsoft should have dropped the price before GTA IV. Instead, all we got was talk about how summer was slow and not worth the move. Now, after sales have fallen behind the PS3, had no choice but to drop price. Microsoft needs to pro-active and act like market leader instead of just responding to the situation.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Tron 2.0 said:
Is it really that much odder than last year's early-August drop?Dax01 said:
So after a 2 year wait for the first drop, and a 1 year wait for the second drop... you think the next will come in a few months? At least if the periods between drops keep halving then by the end of the year it will be free.sionyboy said:
burgerdog said:
Epic failure?
I can give you 3 billion reasons why price cuts don't help that much. Microsoft is making profit,I'm sure they're in no hurry to use the PS3 as a blueprint for price dropping.
Besides,they won't catch the Wii anyways, the gen. is already half over,its too late for that.
May as well stay the course.