Microsoft to Cut XBox Price to $149?

BjB writes "According to a Dow Jones Newswire article, Microsoft plans on lowering the price of the XBox to $149 (from $179) at the beginning of April. This is to compete with the PlayStation 2, which currently remains at $179."

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Re:$50 to go!

[Troed]

(especially as I think the Nintendo is about to die)

Yeah. Sure. The only company actually making profit after profit after profit on their GAMES hardware and software is about to day.

Really, where do you get all this from? Nintendo is making a killing in the games industry - they're not going anywhere.

Here's an interesting thing to think about. There are more Gamecubes sold worldwide than Xboxes - and yet a LOT (yes, a LOT) of Xboxes are only sold because they can be modded.

In Sweden the Xbox has 31% of the market, the cube has 13% (this is one of the only countries where the difference is that big) - yet the amount of software sold for both platforms is the same. Logic thus tells us that around ~66% of all Xboxes are running pirated games only.

Nintendo makes a LOT of money on their games ...