Slashdot Mirror
Xbox Price Drop Doubles Sales, Sony To Follow?
Thanks to GamesIndustry.biz for its story mentioning Microsoft's indication that dropping Xbox's price to $149 has caused sales to double for the week immediately following the announcement. However, the piece muses: "The question, however, is just how long the sales boost will last - with some analysts suggesting that the 'bounce' isn't sustainable. Certainly, there are many factors which suggest that Microsoft will cut the Xbox price again before Christmas 2004." In addition to this, there's speculation about competition: "All eyes are now on rival Sony, with sources close to the Japanese giant suggesting that it plans to drop the US PS2 price point to $149 later this month - and will add two games (as yet unnamed) to the bundle as well, bringing the effective price of the hardware below the Xbox."
Does this mean that they have sold 20 last week as opposed to 10 the week before?
Well - I bought one, a friend bought one and I saw 3 others sold while we were there, that was Monday.
Fairly impressed - Hopefully it won't be replaced too quickly, but it beats having to keep a windows partition around to play games on.
Unfortunately, I broke one of my rules on things not to do during exam week.
It was the second console of this generation, but I still think it's the least powerful. The Dreamcast is part of this group, even though it died off fast (it came out too soon). I think that the DC had the horsepower to keep up with the others and probably outpace them at times.
(can you smell the burning Sega fanboyism?)
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
I love Xbox, love it, love it, love it. But even in my fanboy state I still have to question how many of these reduced price Xboxes are being purchased to replace broken First Generation Xboxes that shipped with the faulty Thompson DVD drive?
Well, with the GC deal, at the end, you could choose between Zelda: Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, Super Mario Sunshine, Star Fox Adventures, Mario Party 4, and the GB player. Admittedly, Star Fox and Mario Party are "Meh" and "More of the same", respectively, but Zelda and Metroid Prime are two of the best titles of this generation.
It's "Henshin a go go, baby". He says it when he transforms into superhero form. Henshin is Japanese for transform.
The game is fairly hard on the adult difficulty (and there are 2 harder difficulties), but there's also a kids mode which is pretty easy.