PS2 Price May Fall, Gamecube Staying Put

mrquackers writes: "Looks like the price war in the console gaming world is starting a bit early. With Microsoft expected to announce a drop in the price of the Xbox to $199 next Monday at E3, Sony's rumored to be cutting PlayStation 2 prices as early as tomorrow. Meanwhile, Nintendo says it won't be making ANY price cuts before or during the show -- though it's not ruling one out for later in the year." Update: 05/14 18:01 GMT by T : An anonymous reader points out this CNN story indicating that the PS2 cut is official.

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Re:Nope!

[Locutus]

bull. Internet Explorer was originally licensed by Spyglass. It was the Mosaic source code. Spyglass got paid for every copy sold and when Microsoft started giving it away and refused to pay Spyglass (because the wen't "selling" it) then Spyglass pulled out their contract and requested an audit of Microsofts books.

IE was not always free. It was used as a hammer to kill Netscape.

The difference here is that Microsoft can only reduce the cost of the console and can't give it away ( no precedence ). They could bundle a bunch of games and essentially give the console away but the games would have to be darn good and from what I hear, they look good but play badly.

LoB