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Xbox for $99? Xbox 2 in 2005?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the shaking-things-up dept.

TimeForGuinness writes "CNN is reporting that Microsoft's Xbox may be on the verge of a substantial price cut, falling from $179 to $99 by Labor Day, and Microsoft will launch its next generation console in late 2005 - a year earlier than has been previously rumored. That would put the Xbox 2 on store shelves up to a full year before Sony's PlayStation 3."

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  1. aka Dreamcast, pre-xbox and ps2 by ayeco · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Msoft better be careful, they'll end up with a dead console like Sega had after it realeased the dreamcast right before xbox and ps2. People might just to see what the ps3 has to offer and avoid x2.

  2. Re:Ouch by RevAaron · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mario Kart is for children? Heh!

    Wow!

    Mario Kart is a bad ass game, regardless if you're 6 or 16 or 60. I mean, a game doesn't have to be a sports game or something violent to be "for adults."

    I couldn't give a rat's ass about gran turismo or the newest rpg. my roomate has a GC and I've not been left wanting... other than knights of the old republic...

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  3. Re:Is that what the controllers look like? by RevAaron · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, that original controller is huge. And a mess of buttons.

    gcn controller. .. mmm.

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