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| Re: yes Yes. Also, you may be able to get them to do a price adjustment and credit back the difference in price. If you plan on returning it though, dont open it or they will charge you a 15% restocking fee.
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| From what I understand, the redesigned chip will be smaller (cheaper, built on a 65 nm process rather than 90) and likely faster (although games won't take advantage of that or else old systems would not work well with new games). The new 360 hardware will basically be the finished version that, I imagine, a lot of people would prefer over the somewhat hot/buggy version out right now. | |
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| Right before xmas C'mon MS will drop the price in the next 3 weeks OR early in January after Christmas honestly I think the PS3 hype is dead now, I think the wii has the upper hand in everything compared to the PS3.
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| Re: Right before xmas I'm hearing a lot of buzz on the street about the Wii. People are intrigued by the new controller, and the lower price.
Nintendo may have a hit on it's hands...
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| Re: Right before xmas They said teh nintendo DS was a fad also with thier new style gaming (dual screens and touch screen) and it is still selling like gang busters. I seriously doubt the wii is a fad. and selling 1 million consoles in the first day and remaining sold it is no way a fad. The n-gage was a fad wii is not a fad. | |
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| Re: Right before xmas You're right, Dual screens and touch screens are NOT a fad, they have been in Arcades for years. Selling 1 million coles is HYPE 9/10 people who purcahsed one have resold it. The Wii my friend is a FAD. Anyways back on topic here, this is a 360 thread. If you would like to continue this PM me. | |
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| Re: Right before xmas ummm no, like 9/10 who bought a PS3 turned around and put it on Ebay. People who bought the Wii bought it to put it in their homes. The resale value on the Wii isn't high enough to warrant flipping it for much of markup.
You are obviously a nintendo hater, and you obviously have not played one yet.
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| said by JohnnyG101  :You're right, Dual screens and touch screens are NOT a fad, they have been in Arcades for years. Dual screen and touch screens have been in arcades for years? I would like to know about these arcade games because in the over 20 years I have seen arcade games evolve I can maybe count such machines with one hand (not counting racing games that use three screens for panoramic effect... totally different than what the DS does). Hardly a standard. | |
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| I picked up a Wii for the kids. My 12 year old played it for 6 hours straight and then my Wife and me played it for a couple of hours(boxing wore us out). I was very surprised at how well it works, I thought it would be gimmicky but it is very accurate. It was a huge hit with all the company over on Thanksgiving. I think Nintendo is on to something here, not just a fad. I also have a modded xbox and a 360, I can see many people buying the 360 for their HD fix and the Wii for their innovative gaming fix, all for the price a PS3. When Super Smash Brothers is released for the Wii early next year, it will sell a hell of a lot of systems. | |
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| Re: Right before xmas yeah if the 360 does drop an hundred dollors in price i will buy one no doubt. I was goign to buy one this christmas but I will wait to see if this shows up or not. I am not a fanboy for any particular system but I will not pay insane prices. I think 300 dollors is about the roof for me. And i have no problem buying a ps3 but not at 500/600 dollors pending on sku you buy. | |
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| said by JohnnyG101 :The whole controller thing with the wii is a fad. If I wanted to work out I'd go to the gym. the Wii will fizzle. You forget that the Wii also has a standard controller to play with. | |
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| Re: Right before xmas said by PunkGod :said by JohnnyG101 :The whole controller thing with the wii is a fad. If I wanted to work out I'd go to the gym. the Wii will fizzle. You forget that the Wii also has a standard controller to play with. That controller is made for the Virtual Console Games (NES, SNES, N64, Gensis,etc) they sell in the Wii store.
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clubs: | Re: Price in story is in pounds, and NOT dollars "That $100 price cut would make the bare bones Xbox 360 $199 and the fully loaded 360 $299"
Wrong there is no mention ANYWHERE about the UK or pounds.
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| Re: Price in story is in pounds, and NOT dollars said by MysticGogeta :"That $100 price cut would make the bare bones Xbox 360 $199 and the fully loaded 360 $299" Wrong there is no mention ANYWHERE about the UK or pounds. Read the links in the story. The BBR news item got it wrong.
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| Re: Price in story is in pounds, and NOT dollars said by scots :I'm looking at the link to the Tech Kills article right now and it says dollars, not pounds. The computerandvideogames.com site says pounds, not dollars. Which one is correct? This is the correct link about price cuts in the UK and is the current info:
»www.computerandvideogames.com/ar···d=149898
The techkills link is old link with stale news in a blog entry from 6/20/06:
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| Still, Microsoft more or less translated the price directly to £ due to covering the cost of import duties and stuff to the country.
So more or less... if they're going to start seeing Xbox 360 (core)s for £199.99 in the UK, that is going to mean that we'll be seeing them for $199.99 sooner or later.
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| Re: Price in story is in pounds, and NOT dollars 'So more or less... if they're going to start seeing Xbox 360 (core)s for £199.99 in the UK, that is going to mean that we'll be seeing them for $199.99 sooner or later.'
Does not follow. The dollar and the pound are not on par with each other. If they were on sale here for 200$ and on sale in London for £200 a person could become rich overnight through the grey market. | |
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| Re: Price in story is in pounds, and NOT dollars The funny thing, though, is that is exactly how it works there. They pay £14.99 for that new CD, £59.99 for that wireless router, and make £10/hour (typical starting wage I would assume). We pay $14.99 for that new CD, $59.99 for that wireless router, and make $10/hour. Of course it wouldn't be an exact conversion as such, but it's not far off.
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| said by bogey780 :'So more or less... if they're going to start seeing Xbox 360 (core)s for £199.99 in the UK, that is going to mean that we'll be seeing them for $199.99 sooner or later.' Does not follow. The dollar and the pound are not on par with each other. If they were on sale here for 200$ and on sale in London for £200 a person could become rich overnight through the grey market. Except for the little fact that UK still uses PAL, where we use NTSC. Even if you were to try that, you'd have a lot of pissed off people in UK to answer to because the units wouldn't work without conversion.
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| Re: Price in story is in pounds, and NOT dollars Don't people have dual system TVs in the U.K.? Many countries in Asia like Singapore use PAL (a carryover from the colonial days), but I know that dual system TV sets are fairly common. I know quite a number of people in Singapore who have no problem viewing content encoded for NTSC. And region free DVD players are commonplace there as well. | |
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| Re: Price in story is in pounds, and NOT dollars Yes. I am in the process of buying a LCD TV in Europe, and I'd say 95% of the models have a PAL/SECAM/NTSC tuner built-in.
Most even have both S-Video and SCART ports as well as RCA inputs, even my $120 30 inch CRT TV does. So I'd say that the percentage of people in Europe that couldn't connect a NTSC source would be rather minimal
I'd venture a guess that the problems might come more from the power cord that has to be changed than from the TV standards
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| Re: Why not? said by Boomerang86 :Xbox 360 is a mature console. Manufacturing costs are probably low enough now for M$ to drop the retail price. They'd be smart to bundle a free game with it too; would make bad memories of non-available PS3s fade faster IMHO. I agree with the free game. Someone at M$ Marketing should realize that a free game is a win-win, especially for parents. Even if they have to up the price by $25. It is a pain to buy a game separately after kicking out $300+ just on the console. It doesnt have to be a M$ Gold tier game like Halo, but maybe a mid-tier game title. Anything that can be played asap when opening the box. | |
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| Wii is the only one that... worth considering as a next-gen console. Its completely newly invented control system speaks for itself - 360 and PS3 is nothing but a nice upgrade of the old, boring console phenomenon. Higher-res graphics (boohoo, PC games had so-called "HD games" ever since), integrated movie player, faster, nicer etc and pretty much that's it. Nothing to be amused by - as a reviewer put it last week the Wii offers at least twice the fun for half the price. | |
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| Price Cut? Actually, Microcenter in Columbus has been running a promotion this holiday season for the xbox 360 premium system at $299 and the core system at $199. Both are prices after rebates of $100.00. You need to buy the products in the store however.
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| eh Price drops are nice for consumers, but completely unncessary.
IMO, If 360 doesn't do more to distinguish itself from PS3 (exclusive games, features, etc) then all the price drops in the world won't work.
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| Re: eh said by Jehu :Price drops are nice for consumers, but completely unncessary. IMO, If 360 doesn't do more to distinguish itself from PS3 (exclusive games, features, etc) then all the price drops in the world won't work. In my eyes it already has. I've observed all 3 consoles and the one console that's really pushing hard to give gamers everything it can is the 360. I know it's had a significant head start. But seriously, I think Nintendo is going to pull ahead of Sony with its Virtual Console whatever, and I think Microsoft is going to lead the pack this time, and will continue to do so UNLESS Sony can give 100% Backwards Compatibility. That's about the only thing Sony can use to its advantage that the 360 fails in. This is all my opinion, of course. | |
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| said by Jehu :IMO, If 360 doesn't do more to distinguish itself from PS3 (exclusive games, features, etc) then all the price drops in the world won't work. You don't have to distinguish yourself when you've got a 1 year lead, and lower price point while having what what effectively are better looking games(cause they're all ports and PS3 is a pain to work with). The console that needs to distinguish it self is the PS3 and you don't do that by losing all your exclusives and launching with so few units that no one will be advertising them until well after Christmas. Sony, despite all the noise they've tried to make to the contrary, is playing catchup and this botched launch isn't going to help them do so.
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| futureshop.ca Walmart had the core, controller and a game for 399.00 canadian the other day and I picked one up at futureshop for 499.00 canadian which included 5 games, controller and live...
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| Re: funny thing Because you're a nasty human being that feeds off the misery of others? Sweet!
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| Re: funny thing said by Jehu :Because you're a nasty human being that feeds off the misery of others? Sweet! I don't think you will get your fix this time You migh don't think but Blu-Ray is pretty much a catastrophe so far. | |
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Mesquite, TX | Re: funny thing I'd like to see Sony zealots suffer. That company doesn't deserve all the blind love it receives on a daily basis, especially after the battery fiasco, the rootkit debacle and now their attempt to foist a new format upon the world again. | |
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| MS will release a new rev model in 2007 From a Digi-times article sometime ago, MS was going to replace the 90nm with a 65nm die IBM PPC CPU(3 core). This would make it run cooler and the updated ATI chipset was to work better with 1080p and HDDVDs.
Rumors until proven onsale.
Besides, you should read the xbox gaming forums. The failure rate of 360's freezing and "red ring of death" are starting to be more than just a few wolf cries. Matter of fact, after CoD3 (lousy game btw) froze mine, I started to investigate matters and now have to consider walking in and exchanging the unit. Which is something I don't want to do yet. Someone I know told me that they are 6-8 weeks behind on refurbs back for warranty issues (MS returns direct). One fellow got his replacment only to have the unit not read DVDs.
It's quite a sum to invest (360, PS3 or Wii) when you count the controllers, the games ($60!!!), the accessories and micro-payments on Live. A typical console will come close to $1000 when you through in 3-5 games, another controller, wireless networking, and online downloads.
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i would like to say few words about them.
xbox : most of you might think its outdated but is the stable console which i've seen till date, with good graphics and connectivity. it never hung, stuck or whatever between a game.i believe xbox is the best package till now.
ps2 : its outdated. good thing about this console is wireless gaming and many games are available in the market. i feel that there are too many controls on the controller. graphics are'nt that great when compared to xbox.
xbox 360 : i like wireless gaming and 360 is perfect for me as of now. gameplay is awesome. but but but.......
it makes me angry when ever the console freezes in middle of the game. on an average it happens around 3-5 times in a week. no other issues...
360 is offering demo games online, which is attracting me to download them and try them out before buyin..lot of other stuff which can be done on 360. i would like to use xbox with all those features than 360. and about xbox 360 pricing.. it will definetly drop i guess.
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