Xbox 360 Price Drop Official 92
GameDaily is reporting that the $50 price drop on the Xbox 360 is now official. That's for the premium SKU, different boxes have different drops: "The Elite SKU (120GB) has been slashed by $30, bringing it down to $449.99, and the Core SKU now has an MSRP that is $20 lower at $279.99. All prices are effective August 8th. In addition, the special Halo 3 themed Xbox 360 that was casually mentioned by Peter Moore at this year's E3 Microsoft press conference has been assigned an estimated retail price of $399.99. The Xbox 360 Halo 3 Special Edition Console will arrive in stores this September and will feature "an authentic Spartan green-and-gold finish," a matching Xbox 360 Wireless Controller, Xbox 360 20GB hard drive, Xbox 360 Headset, an Xbox 360 Play and Charge Kit, and more."
Slashed? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Viva Piñata and Dead Rising.
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Heck, look at Xbox V1 when it dropped to 149. It sold like crazy, so well in fact that it was out of stock in the US for over 3 months. I think the same could be easily achieved with the 360 in coming holiday. I didn't expect any price drops until after the Halo version. Its nice that its here though. But, the pri
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I don't think a random string of alphanumerics has any HDMI hookups whatsoever.
?? What are you talking about? I haven't heard anything about problems with the stock keeping units. They seem to be consistent on each item in stock and reflect what is in the box. Are you saying that stores are getting inventory with incorrect sku designations? What
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Ah yes.... Porn.
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SKU SKU SKU SKU (Score:5, Insightful)
NO! It's for the premium XBOX. People don't buy a SKU, they buy the XBOX! Come ON, what is with all the SKU nonsense? I used to work at an EB Games and I nor any of the other employees EVER talked like that. Don't any of you realize how lame you sound?
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I've worked in market research, and there we spoke of SKU's all the time. That way, we didn't have to adjust our vocabulary depending on what kind of product we were talking about. That is, instead of having to say "three Xboxes" or "three cereals" or "three toilet bowl cleaners," we could refer to each of them as "three SKU's."
I don't see a problem either way. Just depends on if you prefer typical EB lingo or typical bus
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It's a shame, because SKU is at its heart a technical term; later appropriated for business/marketing speak.
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Rob
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"Model" doesn't cut it because you might have two packages with the exact same XBOX, but one has a game included and one doesn't. One model, two SKUs.
"Product" doesn't cut it specifically because of bundling. You wouldn't call an XBOX plus a game a single product. It's two products combined into a single SKU.
The closest thing I can think of that really could replace SKU is "packaging" as a discrete noun --- "a
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That is true and I understand why they need to be more specific especially when there are multiple versions of a product. However, when conveying information to the general public it's just stupid to use that term because people don't go out looking for a particular SKU nor ever really even look at the SKU. Do you ever hear people in a store asking, "that's the premium SKU, right? I don't want to end up with just a regular
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As I said above, I don't like businessese anymore than anyone else here, but SKU has a very specific, very useful meaning that isn't easily conveyed by other words.
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You're very wrong. That little barcode thingy on the box is what costs $449. The rest of the package is their way of saying thanks.
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So, actually, it is kind of wrong to say the Elite SKU is getting a price cut when all Elite SKUs are getting price cuts. It would be more accurate to say that the Elite product line will be getting a price cut as all Elite packages are priced the same regardless of actual hardware in the box.
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Hell, those words aren't even necessarily synonmous but are still regularly interchanged.
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NO! It's for the basic one that actually works for what it says on the box. People don't buy something that can't patch, can't save, can't connect to the net without buying upgrades! Come ON, what's with all the PREMIUM nonsense? I own a 360 and I nor any other owner I know of EVER talked like that. Don't any of you realize how lame you sound?
Sorry to parody your response but it's a little hypocritical to complain about SKU vs. Premium when no one considers the Premium anything
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65nm chips? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Some odditities in the price drops... (Score:2, Insightful)
Why didnt they drop the price uniformly across the board? With a price drop of $50 the Core version would have been priced directly against the Wii, which I think would have made sense for Microsoft at least from a psychological and marketing standpoint.
And why did the Elite get a price drop that soon? AFAIK it is still pretty new so the people who bought one already coul
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I laughed as well. They're technically correct in calling themselves the leader, but th
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I defy you to show me where the Wii sell-through numbers are anything like the 360's, though. I own a Wii but never buy games for it, and I think that's where many Wii owners are at this point. So it made an impression on non-traditional gamers by virtue of Wii Sports. So what? The "masses", by definition, don't buy many games because they don't care a whole lot
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It's a bit hard to do as Microsoft keeps its numbers under wraps, but I'll give it a go.
According to Wikipedia's Best Selling Games Page [wikipedia.org], the Wii has sold:
Assuming that their figures match up by date to the sales figured on the Wikipedia Wii page (9.27m), that gives a sell-through ratio of ~4.
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I somewhat doubt it's common enough to be the average. I only know one person who has a full 4 remotes, and I don't know anyone outside of Slashdot who has 2 Nunchucks. My setup is 2 remotes (bundled + WiiPlay), 1 Nunchuck, a Classic Controller, and 2 GameCube Controllers. I'd like to get more controllers, but I'm taking my time. I don't need them immediately and they're rather expensive to stock up
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Really, who cares? The Wii makes a profit with zero sellthrough, and the Xbox requires at least seven game and accessory purchases to break even. So one company is selling lots of stuff at a loss, and the other company is selling a little bit less stuff at a huge profit. Which one is the "winner"?
I'll take the profit any day.
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O Come On (Score:2, Insightful)
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Wait until christmas then. You should have other bundles available and get off cheaper or have more included for the same money.
Integrated wifi (Score:3, Interesting)
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I'm fortunate enough to have a 20 meter ethernet cable, which is enough to go from my hub to the 360. However, it does mean there's this long gray wire running past the kitchen and in all sorts of places one might trip.
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Halo 3 Special Edition (Score:2)
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Interesting (Score:1)
I think this is a lot better than Sony's fire sale.
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Good and bad price drops (Score:2)
We have
Core, previous price 300, new price 270
10% price drop on the cheapest item
Premium, previous price 400, new price 350
12.5% price drop on the mid-range item
Elite, previous price 480, new price 450
6.25% price drop on the highest cost item?
(Is it any surprise apparently the Elite is selling well at the moment, cough cough? mm)
On another nother, we've been informed today that Canada's prices are dropping and they are much closer inline with the US price (after conversion).
The real qu
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Europe, Australia and New Zealand (and others) are more than aware of the typical 'rape'* tax applied to electronic items from the states, we've grown used to it but the consoles have been especially nasty of late (Example hard disks and CPU's - around 15% more expensive than the states AFTER conversion)
Don't forget that unlike US prices, Australian pricing has 10% Goods and Service Tax included in the quoted price. I paid AU$530 for my 360 Professional including Forza 2, equivalent to roughly US$450.
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Then again, I shouldn't even inquire
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Officeworks had a standard retail offer of $580 for the Premium with Forza 2 during their recent sale. However, they also offer 5% off to shareholders and it's fairly easy to get a 10% off for family and friends voucher if you have a look around online and keep your eyes open. I'll admit I got a potentially atypical deal because of the voucher, but most places definitely aren't selling the Premium at retail - they're well under, especially when they bundle a game. But, on the same note, it's not like I'm
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Whereas we had effectively an 80$+ AUD price drop (depending on your thoughts on PGR3) as much as 6 months ago.
It's still too expensive though
Thanks for the info and link.
Price Drop? They're giving them away for free.. (Score:2)
Since they offer qualifying notebooks for as low as $699, and desktops for $599, (which includes system, monitor, OS, and a software bundle including Corel and MS-Works, etc.), it seems to me that the X-box is being given to MDG pretty darn cheap.
This looks like Barbie-doll marketing to me - give away the doll, and make