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Cheaper Xbox
Sharpie90210
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I read somewhere that they were making a new, cheaper Xbox, with a 60gb hard drive, that was coming out in April. I have been wondering if that's true.
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I don't think there has been any official word on a new version of the 360 as of right now.
Some gaming news sites have info on the new 360 model that supposedly might come out... Last I read, it is going to be black... eh?
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The cheaper part was people's speculation... I think it was more lowered cost to produce than cheaper for consumers.
don't expect a price drop for any of the 3 systems for the next year, at least.
People keep saying this, but I really think 360 will drop in price by the end of the year. Analysts have said recently that Microsoft are making money now (~$80) on every 360 sold, and Halo 3 + $300 Premium + cheapest way to play GTA4 = 360 owns the holiday season. In North America, at least.
Yeah it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft do that just to ruin Sony's next Christmas too. Coupled with a massive ad campaign maybe. I think any price cuts depend more on what Sony does than any other factors.
Wait wait, GTA4 isn't 360 exclusive anymore? I coulda sworn whats-his-face got it tatooed on his arm to announce it.
Jesus Christ, if they aso dropped the price of the Core to $279 or $249, and dropped the greedy as fuck price of the 20GB HDD down to something remotely reasonable (Like, say $19.99 as opposed to $99.99 you greedy cunts) and released a larger hard drive standalone... that would pretty much demolish The PS3 Christmas.
Even moreso if Halo 3 launches anytime around then.
Imagine a 360 premium bundle with a 60GB HDD, a copy of Halo 3, a custom faceplate, and a pricetag somewhere around $449, and MS could pretty much own Q4 '07.
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He got it tattooed on his arm to announce that it was coming out for both on the same day.
Don't expect the hard drive to go below $50, although we might see a bump in capacity. Microsoft likes to make money on peripherals, not lose it. Hard drives are expensive, or rather, there's a certain price floor that they really can't drop beneath, even as capacity keeps going up.
That's why Nintendo used flash memory instead. Flash just gets cheaper and cheaper, but hard drives are always going to have some significant cost.
But, I guess the average gamer who plays exclusively console games might not know that $100 buys you a pretty decent amount of space in the PC world, even if you're shopping retail.
I see that they can stretch the 20GB drives out for a while longer, but eventually people are going to be frustrated when they are continually running out of space on the 13GB they are allotted. How does Microsoft plan to sell all of the digital movies and other content when a game can clock in at hundreds of megs, and a movie several gigs? Even high definition TV shows have hefty data requirements. People won't want to delete and redownload all of this stuff on a regular basis.
Good point on flash though. THe only problem is, it wouldn't make sense to have more than a couple of gigs of flash memory, because I thik after theat the price advantage disappears.
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