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Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360
itwbennett writes "Peter Smith has done the math on Microsoft's $99 Xbox 360 — 4GB model (no hard drive) and a Kinect sensor. Here's why it's a bad deal: 'You'll be paying $99 + $359.76 in monthly fees, or $458.76 over the course of two years. Compare that with (I'm using prices from Amazon that were accurate as of May 7th, 2012) $287.70 for an Xbox 360 4GB + Kinect bundle, and two 12-month Xbox Live Gold cards at $48.41 each, a total of $384.52. So you're paying almost $75 for the privilege of laying out small cash now.' And then there's the not insignificant matter of early termination fees."
This assumes I want Xbox Live Gold, right?
My xbox 360 just recently broke, which is a shame because my son was enjoying some of the arcade games I downloaded and it was my only dvd player.
I assure you that I would very much like to have a 99 dollar xbox 360 with a kinetic, the kinetic will go on my computer, the new xbox will play my dvds and arcade games, and microsoft will lose money on me.
There's no downside.
bend like the reed