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Microsoft Announces Official Xbox 360 Price Drop

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0bsessions:
How so? He can get the Core version for under $300 now.

Aside from the fact it's the shitty version, if the Wii continues to outsell the competition by such a wide margin, look to see another drop by next year's holiday season. If developers jump on the Wii bandwagon as heavily as many claim they want to now that it's selling, I really wouldn't be surprised to see the Wii lap the competition by the end of 2008 (It's already sold about double the other two combined in Japan and will likely have surpassed the 360 by month's end at its current pace, being only about a million units behind in mid July). If that happens, expect drastic measures from Sony and Microsoft. If either of those two drops their price, the other will be forced to follow suit to stay competetive.

Ozymandias:
VG Chartz puts the Wii and 360 neck and neck.

Microsoft needs this right now. If it even just causes the 360 match the Wii's sales it'll be enough for now. That's a pretty tall order, though.

Storm Rider:
Buying the Core system is like slapping yourself in the face. Retail chains are beginning to stop stocking the Core unit because it sells so slowly. Eventually Microsoft will give it the ax. As far as ScrambledGregs 'under 300 dollars' rule, it'll probably be a good long while before the Premium edition has another 50 dollar price drop, considering it took them over a year and a half for it to get the first one. For me, that's a long time to not be playing the many, many great 360 games.

ScrambledGregs:
I guess my justification is that I don't have a HDTV and I'm not going to pay $60 a year for Live. But what it boils down to is justifying the price of admission to a console. Do I think that any game on the 360 is worth $400 plus $60 for the game?? No. I don't think that any game ever has been worth that to me. But do I think that certain experiences on the Wii are worth $250 plus $50 for the game?? Yes, because that's still lower than the 360 itself.

You've got to remember, and I may have said this before on here, I've never paid more than $200 for a console. Regardless of inflation, that's still a lot of money to me and to a lot of other people. In terms of games that made me want to shell out for a console, it was never one game alone, but rather one single game that ended up tipping my hand and making me go "ok, fuck, I have to have it." Shen Mue made me shell out for a Dreamcast, but there were other great games for it, too. Halo 2 made me shell out for a Xbox, but there was also KOTOR and Fable was coming and so on. Final Fantasy X made me shell out for a PS2, but there were other games I wanted or would want for it, too. And in all those cases, I never paid more than $200 for the console and $50 for the game.

0bsessions:
I myself have a large series of games I've been dying for on 360. I want Dead Rising, Gears of War and Guitar Hero II. I also want Resident Evil 5 and Blue Dragon when they eventually come out.

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