[Rumor] Xbox 360 $100 (total) price cut in August

Originally Posted by Forsety

It won't happen anyway. I'll try to scrounge up a link, but when asked about a price cut retort to the "price cut" (clearance sale?) of the PS3 they said they wouldn't be making one. It's still cheaper anyway, it doesn't need one and they are finally breaking even with console manufacturing costs so I don't see why they'd want to dig themselves back into a position where console sold = money lost when people are still gobbling them up even at the current price.

If it turns out to be true, then great for people who don't already own one I suppose but I severely doubt it will happen at any rate.

I remember reading an article on GameSpot with some exec. in Microsoft's Game Division -- hell, it might've been Peter Moore before his departure -- who said that there would be no price cut.

Dropping the price after extending the warranty makes Microsoft look like they're admitting to faulty, unreliable hardware, and that's not PR they want floating around for analysts and share holders to get a hold of.

Lawl I'm way off the current discussion. Oh well.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by russ

If you are a person who is only going to buy one console, and you have three consoles to choose from, you're going to choose the one that has the features you are most interested in.

This time around (i.e. console generation) I don't think their will be too many single console owners, especially if you consider the expansion of PC gaming. As far as which console someone'll buy first, I'll support your opinion and say that yeah, you buy based on the one with the most features. More to the point, games are a feature of the system, and people generally buy the systems according to the games they wanna play, be it by title, genre, or whatever else you can factor in.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Continuing to get further away from topic, here's some food for thought.

Recalling the Gamecube's library, do you think it's such a good idea that Nintendo's bringing out 3 of their big 4 titles all within a nearly 3-month period of each other? By releasing Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3 so close together, do you think Nintendo's effectively reduced their own consoles for the next 2 to 3 years, barring any major third-party exclusive releases?

When you really sit down and think about it, a good part of what can make a system successful are the quality and quantity of first-party titles -- releasing a fair amount of pretty close to triple-AAA quality titles during a system's lifespan is the logical key to success. During the GameCube's years, Nintendo kinda...failed to do that. Super Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime, Zelda: Wind Waker and Smash Bros. Melee were released pretty close together if memory serves, and it was a good year and half/two years before Metroid Prime 2 was released, and then Twilight Princess was moved to the Wii first, in favor of strengthening new console sales at the cost of the GameCube.

My question again is: is it wise for Nintendo to release their console-selling first-party titles so close together instead of spreading them out over a 6-month or year-long window?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Kesubei

Anyway, back to the 360. Assuming they're was a price drop, is it possible that MS would scale back the premium SKU? Lower hard drive size, or just producing a much smaller batch of units overall? Could it be like the Wii situation is now? Or would they pull a Sony, and use the price drop to phase in the Elite as their primary model?

So far that's the strategy I thought they were already using: phase out one to introduce the other.

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