Xbox Price Drops to $200

ProfBooty writes: "Just two days after rival Sony Corp. cut prices on the PlayStation 2, Microsoft has announced they are cutting Xbox pricing by 33% to $200. Nintendo still has no plans to cut pricing on the Gamecube. Now is definitely a good time to be a gamer with all 3 next-gen systems at $200. Too bad i just bought a Playstation 2 yesterday." I'd like to know if anyone has succeeded in porting a Free operating system to the Xbox.

Some Console Thoughts

[perl_god]

Im soooooooo sick of people saying that GC is kiddy and crap. That is a very lame way to defend PS2 or XBOX. Anyway, I was at school in the computer room and my friend started bragging about how he thinks that PS2 is better than Gamecube because it has better games and GC is babyish (some people are so arrogant). So, i said he was full of sh!t and that Gamecube obviously has better games than PS2. It turned into a verbal war with nothing being achieved. Then i decided to visit Slashdot. I saw the news headline 400,000 Gamecubes sold in Europe so i clicked on it. When i saw the words "23 years is the average age of a GameCube owner" i grinned. I asked my arogant friend what he thought the average age for GC owners was, he said "um, 5". So i showed him the news article and as he was reading it, his face went bright red like a tomato. I asked him if he still thought GC was a kiddy system with baby games and he just said "SHUTUP!!!". Straight after school we went to EB and he traded in his PS2 for a GC and Wave Race. He said it was the best Game he had ever played and regrets ever buying a ps2. I told him about all the awesome games that are on the way and he nearly cried. He told all his friends about it and they all came over and played Wave Race. All 8 of them said that they were going to buy one tommorow. If it wasnt for PGC then 9 people would have missed out on what is clearly the BEST CONSOLE EVER!!! now all i need is Star Fox Adventures and i'll be in heaven!!!

Now is definatly a good time ...

[dbretton]

Now is definatly a good time to be a ...

Spellchecker?

Don't buy one yet

[trauma]

It's only a matter of time before MS starts bundling the Xbox free with Windows.

Re:It's not funny anymore...

[nherc]

Sir, I ACTUCALLY concur.

Re:Xbox Linux

[bob_jordan]

Surely the primary hurdle is getting microsoft to sell you an Xbox minus OS for less then $199.

Bob.

Re:Xbox Linux

[linzeal]

Wait, wait, are you telling the readers of slashdot that microsoft actually made something secure?

Re:Finally, a market not easily....

[EnderWiggnz]

If you consider 25 million vs. 1.5 million units deployed "even", I've got some great shares in this energy trading company to sell you.

Top five lamest arguments of the console war

[Toddarooski]

1. You shouldn't buy a GameCube because it's a kiddie console! (Only kids like fun games, apparently...)

2. Micro$oft is evil! Therefore you should support Nintendo! (Unless it's being said with irony, then it's clever.)

3. Don't buy an Xbox becuase it's just a stripped down PC! (Oh, no! It's got a CPU and a graphics chip! Run!)

4. MGS is a great game! (Okay, just my own personal opinion here -- 20 minutes of excellent gameplay surrounded by 18 hours of crappy dialogue is a good game? Give me Ico any day.)

5. I'm throwing my loyalty behind (Sony / Nintendo / Microsoft) because they care about me as a gamer.

Re:Cost Question

[dtfarmer]

The X-Box is definitely losing money on each sale

Microsoft loses money on each Xbox sold.... therefore, they really aren't losing much money now, are they? (at least not in Japan or Europe)

NetBSD on XboX -

[Neck_of_the_Woods]

Link to NetBSD Hack for XboX [hackerheaven.org]

How-to included with loads and mods.

Re:Oops. Try again.

[CynicTheHedgehog]

I'm in the gaming biz and I can tell you that this is not the case.

Perhaps, but do you have a link to a purely speculative article written by an obscure web comic scriptwriter to back up your statement?

That's right. Who da man.

My Favorite Part of these types of Articles...

[Anonymous Coward]

I totally LOVE the fact that every article announcing a price cut or upgrade includes this mandatory concluding thought:

Too bad I bought an XBox yesterday.
Too bad I ordered my TiBook 17 minutes ago.
Too bad I just bought my brand new PS2 with 150 games last week.
Too bad I just unwrapped this Big Mac with no cheez and took a bite.

After seeing that ALL stories like this are seemingly the same, I wonder if the guy's actually got an XBox or not. I think not - it just adds spice to the story, a little drama. Good journalism, like CNN's storytelling.

And if he does own one, the horrifying lesson is clear:

Improvements hurt everyone. Please, Company X, don't do it. Don't lower your price. Don't bring out a new model. Have mercy. Think of the little people who bought a unit three minutes ago. And three weeks. And three years.

For God's sake, no. Just put the price cutters down and nobody gets hurt. Easy, easy... that's it, lower the price cutters slowly, slowly.... good.

Whew. That was a close one.

Zooberman
PriceCut Preventing Hero and Pastry Chef