their price...
http://www.gamemarketwatch.com/news/item.asp?nid=2782
... and that article is from October 2003, before Christmas. MS could
be looking at that, thinking it's worth even more of a short-term loss
to cut the Box price down to that much, since they'll obviously be
hoping to make up more from game sales. I don't know. It'll be
interesting to see how it plays out.
- Jim
Angel Stewart wrote:
>I don't think I totally agree with that 99US rumor.
>
>THe launch date of the Xbox2 is also heresay as well. Sony claims they
>don't expect their PS3 to launch before 2006.
>The new chipsets for the Xbox2 won't be ready until say mid 2005
>according to the manufacturers and that's if nothing goes wrong.
>Which leaves Microsoft 6 months max to get ready for a christmas 2005
>launch. Might as well be 2006 at E3 or something.
>
>If they have everything moving to a very precise plan, they could make
>it though!
>
>The XBox and the PS2 seem to all be heading for a definite price cut,
>though nothing official announced by either company, probably to about
>129US.
>
>The 99US is a pipe dream in my view, brought about by Nintendo's
>surprising move to put their Gamecube at 99US.
>
>Maybe it will be priced at 99US when the Xbox2 is released?
>
>The lack of backward compatibility is a shame though.
>
>-Gel
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>However, if you don't have an XBox yet, the most plausible XBox hubbub
>I've heard is that MS will severely cut the price to $99 around Labor
>Day, since the XBox 2 is expected in 2005 at some point. That makes a
>great deal of sense, since backwards compatibility will likely not be a
>feature of the XBox 2 (snarkily known as the iBox) - MS will want to
>move as much software for the original console as possible before it
>becomes yesterday's news. $99 is within range of most people, hell, I
>make that much in an hour selling heroin at the middle school... I mean,
>
>programming contracts.
>
>- Jim
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