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Microsoft to Cut XBox Price to $149?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the craaazy-savings dept.

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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  1. To compete with PS2? by scumbucket · · Score: 0, Informative

    I thought this was to compete with Nintendo's Gamecube, which as been at $150 for a while now and sold out not long after the Christmas season ended.

    You still can't find 'cubes in many places......

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    1. Re:To compete with PS2? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
      "You still can't find 'cubes in many places......"

      been through this before, seems to be Nintendo's supply problem rather than massive demand for 'Cubes. (at least that's what some shop owners were saying IIRC).

    2. Re:To compete with PS2? by roche · · Score: 2, Informative

      The Cube has been $99 for a while now, not $150.

      http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid =0 20179

      http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0 00 06IJJI/qid=1079712384/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/104-03879 69-5067127?v=glance&s=electronics&n=507846

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    3. Re:To compete with PS2? by m_chan · · Score: 3, Informative
      I thought this was to compete with Nintendo's Gamecube, which as been at $150 for a while now
      They will have to be a little more aggressive if the want to compete on price; the GameCube has been just below $100 for some time now.

      Like here, for example
  2. Re:And Sony will comply... by Torgo's+Pizza · · Score: 2, Informative

    Playstation 3 this Christmas? Hardly. 4Q 2005 at the earliest according to Sony.

  3. Re:In Britain... by Doug+Dante · · Score: 1, Informative

    "things never seem to even come close to what the exchange rate says they "should" be"

    That's because your government adds on a 17.5% VAT (Value Added Tax) that is hidden from you. In the USA we have no VAT, but we do have a visible sales tax of up to 10% (usually about 6%) depending on where you live. In Canada, they have both a VAT and sales tax.

    Personally, I think that the taxes should be plainly visible so that we citizens can understand them better, but that's probably the reason that they're invisible.

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  4. Fool me once, shame on me by M3wThr33 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why are we to believe a scanned Wal-Mart ad for the Xbox price drop when the one for Target and the $99 PS2 one never came true?

  5. Re:$50 to go! by The+Other+White+Boy · · Score: 2, Informative

    he meant his NES, physical box, is about to die. hence wanting to emulate them and hence the comment about keeping the games pretty. not the company.

    heh, 'interesting.' =)