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Microsoft Drops Xbox 360 Pricing
Kawahee was one of several readers to tip news of a price cut for the Xbox 360. This comes after Sony dropped PS3 prices and unveiled the Slim model last week. The 360 Elite will now retail for $299, but will no longer ship with HD cables. The 360 Pro has been reduced to $249, but Microsoft is phasing it out. Analysts don't expect this new price point to be a huge boon for sales because the Elite doesn't match the PS3's hardware capabilities and is still more expensive than the Wii. Microsoft has "no plans" for a smaller version of the 360.
if you want mmo's backwards combatability and a hard drive stop dicking around with consoles and get a PC.
Microsoft has "no plans" for a smaller version of the 360.
Oh, you mean something that is even more likely to overheat and would probably exceed the current awesome 50-whatever% failure rate?
Yeah, I want that!
The most required price cuts are for the outrageously expensive wifi adapter and the absurdly overpriced 120 gb hard drive. I have an original xbox 360 with 20gb hard drive (only had 1 RROD, hoorray) and I can barely install 1 game, and forget about movie downloads or a couple of demos unless you uninstall that game.
Right now in spain a 120gb harddrive + wifi adapter will actually cost you more than the full xbox 360 arcade pack.
To all you PS3 fanbois, bless Sony for letting you put any hard drive you wish. Believe me, after years fighting with a ridiculous 20gb drive thats one hell of a feature (...insert envy emoticon here...)
WTF Microsoft??!!!!
> 1: media capability's are poor
Not true. Idiot.
> 2: dvd plaback is worse than a PS2
Outright lie.
> 3: game will require 4 disks this year
Because changing disks once every 20hrs in an 80hr RPG is really that much of a ballache. Games that require more than one disk are so long that I'm not going to play it in one session anyway, and changing a disc that infrequently is irrelevant.
> 4: no blu-ray
And that matters why on a games machine with downloadable movies including Netflix etc. exactly ?
> 5: $50 more and u have a blu-ray
Why the fuck would I want to pay $50 more for something that's already obsolete to downloadable films?
> 6: $50 and you yourself can upgrade the HDD to a 500GB in the future
What are you on about? 120gb is plenty.
> 7: $50 more and you have xbox live gold, or a PS3
Er, I'll take the cheaper option with more games thanks.
I do not think you're a troll, I just think you're an unintelligent idiot who likes making shit up to try and justify his ignorance.