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

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Rumor: Xbox 360 to drop price by $100 across all SKUs on August 1st

According to internet reports, a major Canadian retailer has confirmed that the Xbox 360 is set to receice an Official $100 price drop across all Skus as of August 1st. That will mean that the Xbox 360 core will retail for $199 (with a pack in memory unit) and be even cheaper than the Wii at $249 USD.

A look at what the market would like like with the proposed price cut

- Xbox 360 core, $199 USD (with included memory unit)
- Nintendo Wii, $249 USD
- Xbox 360 Premium, $299 USD
- Xbox 360 Elite, $399 USD
- PS3, $599 USD

Source: Max Console

Would be great news if true, due to the massive list of A-list games set to drop in August through the end of the year.

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The Wii is crap and I am sick of hearing about how well it is selling. It's a Gamecube with a couple of additional gags, and the system's game library can't compete with anything outside of a cell phone. The real problem I have with the "console" is that it is regarded as a kiddy, overly-simplified and braindead system, and there no intention by Nintendo nor any developers to change that.

If y'all don't agree, just look at what Capcom has done with Resident Evil. It was originally supposed to play like RE4, aka one of the best games of all time, but they felt compelled to dumb it down for Wii fans, because the developers were confident that the userbase was either universally dumb as a rock, or just old and shouldn't be operating any electronic equipment in the first place.

I will simply pity the game industry if Wii becomes some kind of leader or influential force. You're just going to get heaps and heaps of simple, Tiger handheld-level crap games, and everybody is going to be overjoyed except for the people who really matter in the industry: GAMERS.

Oh wait. Nintendo is releasing Mario 2 on VC next week. Everything is fine now.

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