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Now Official: Microsoft cut XBox price down to $200 today (5/15)

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as some of you may also know, there are a lot of rumors going around now that the xbox has been "cracked". they have at least gotten backups to run on dev xboxes. nothing for certain so far though.
 
wow their willing to take an even bigger loss? their losing money on xbox's already by selling them at 300 dollars.

Not true, Intel is taking the hit, not M$.
 
i have a genesis
32x
jaguar
saturn (twice)
dreamcast (asian and us)
got all of them @ pawn shops except my second dc, which i got at wally when it had the $50 rebate
i figure that pretty much explains my motives 😀
but i want sega gt 2002! played it @ tgs and really want to sink my teeth into it. plus sega did the SAME exact thing to jfsr that they did to jsr and I CANNOT ABIDE BY THAT. wait for months to get a dubbed game? bakabishina!
what's the price on the ctrllr s (yah, me boi was talking about it during lunchtime while i was playing the rc demo)? bet it's more than the regular one... bet it isn't in aki though 🙂
other than msr (which my friends already own), and rally challenge, don't really see much that i need from us vers...
 
wow their willing to take an even bigger loss? their losing money on xbox's already by selling them at 300 dollars.

lowering the price on the X-box does not mean they will lose more money. it really depends on the elasticity of the product. personally, I think it will boost sales.
 
Microsoft could lose millions, if not billions of dollars, and still not exhaust their reserve of cash. They are sitting on a pile of money. How a company with this much cash doesn't give some kind of dividend to shareholders is truly amazing.
 


<< wow their willing to take an even bigger loss? their losing money on xbox's already by selling them at 300 dollars.

Not true, Intel is taking the hit, not M$. >>





Since when did Intel backroll the X-Box? MS already paid them for the cpus.
 
How a company with this much cash doesn't give some kind of dividend to shareholders is truly amazing.

Personally, I would much rather see a company I invest in put the dividend money to use, and make their stock worth more money, but that's just me 🙂

Also, they may lose money on the consoles, but won't they gain mucho dinero on game sales? I mean, it's a freakin' CD! All they have are development costs 🙂

Just my .02
 
that is hot, but what with other, *cough* developments, it could be very very bad if they are counting on games to bring in the profits...
 


<< as some of you may also know, there are a lot of rumors going around now that the xbox has been "cracked". they have at least gotten backups to run on dev xboxes. nothing for certain so far though. >>



That would be the best reason yet to get one! Most likely by the time I get one they'll be down to $100....
 
Per voodooextreme.com (nice site btw), Sony is expected to counter the Xbox move by dropping the price of the PS2 to $199 as well on the same day! Ya gotta love capitalism!

Right now, I'd probably go with the PS2. Sure, the Xbox looks better and has better hardware, but... it all about the GAMES! I can always just wait for the PC Halo.

souja
 


<< Reuters is reporting that Microsoft has scheduled a May 20th Press Conference to likely annonce an Xbox price cut down to $200 for the North American Market. >>



well, if they do that, i think they are just position themselves to be just like saga dreamcast...
it won't be long before it's gone from the gaming world and into collector's item.
 
well, if they do that, i think they are just position themselves to be just like saga dreamcast...

If the Xbox does go the way of the dodo, it won't be because of the price drop. I'm sure Microsoft will be able to cover whatever losses they incur. The plan behind the Xbox was not to make MS millions anyways, but it is an attempt to combat Sony in it's plans to dominate the home entertainment market. Sony has plans to the the PS2 (and subsequently PS3) to be the center of home entertainment (games, DVD, broadband internet) - which kinda conflicts Microsoft's agenda.

After the price cuts, the consoles will be at:

Gamecube $149
Xbox $199
PS2 $199

In actuality, I think I heard that Sony had already planned to drop the prices of the PS2's sometime this summer. So the Xbox's drop in price was probably due to that and sluggish game sales as well.

In the end, it's all about the games. I read somewhere that the Xbox only has from week to week, around 2 titles in the top twenty console games - far behind the PS2 and even the Gameboy Advance.

souja

 
x-box at $199.99. so i guess that means gamestop will have it for 249.99 and best buy will have like 3 consoles and sell them at $179.
 
Command & Conquer Renegade is an awful lot like Halo in my opinion.. so theres pretty much already a PC version.
 


<< x-box at $199.99. so i guess that means gamestop will have it for 249.99 and best buy will have like 3 consoles and sell them at $179. >>

Nah, BB will list them for $129, touting "$70 OFF!" on BestBuy.com, then cancel the thousands and thousands of orders, claiming (in order):

1). It was a mistake
2.) The price in question was never posted (despite evidence to the contrary).
3.) There is no Xbox.

*NOTE: Number 3.) above for the enjoyment of Matrix fans everywhere!
 


<< Command & Conquer Renegade is an awful lot like Halo in my opinion.. so theres pretty much already a PC version. >>



Except that it sucks a lot harder than Halo.
 
Sweet! Add a store promotion or coupon and it could get as low as $150. Sell my Dreamcast at auction, and a PS2 or XBox would cost me less than $100!! I'd get that rather than a DVD player for my second room since it plays DVDs...

Then again, with Star Wars Galaxies coming out in December for the PC, who has time for a console? 😀
 
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