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post Sep 11 2008, 12:26 AM
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Microsoft: Xbox 360 sales surge on price cut
Posted by XanTium | September 10 19:26 EST | News Category: Xbox360
 
From seattlepi.nwsource.com:
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Microsoft said today that Xbox 360 sales rose significantly following the price cuts announced by the company last week. The company said retailers are reporting that sales of the video-game console increased more than 100 percent over the weekend, compared with the prior weekend.

Of course, it remains to be seen if those bumps will be temporary or lasting.
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Full Story: seattlepi.nwsource.com

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post Sep 11 2008, 01:26 AM
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Will be interesting to see if the bump is sustained. The price cut was such a poorly kept secret that a lot of people who would have bought in the prior month would have waited and then purchased on the weekend.
There will also be a spike in existing 360 owners replacing their dead consoles.
After that it will be interesting to see if the $199 price point is enough to win a new type of buyer over to the 360.
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post Sep 11 2008, 01:39 AM
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I got a friend who's got a RRoD I can't fix... he'll probably just buy a new one, now.
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post Sep 11 2008, 05:31 AM
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post Sep 11 2008, 05:32 AM
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I bought one this weekend for $200 dollars you cant go wrong(pay29 dollars for warantty)I was going to buy the hdmi adapter wich ran 100 dollars and I needed a new control 59bucks so 40 bucks more I got another x360 one for playing backups and one for live game. plus it way quiter then my original lunch one.
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post Sep 11 2008, 06:52 AM
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Nintendo wii sales continue to surge without a price cut, go figure!!
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post Sep 11 2008, 09:09 AM
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Even my cheap ass got one on the weekend in question. I happened to have extra money when I saw news of the price cut. Bummer that it had a lite-on DVD drive. It was a impulse buy. If I had an older 360 I wouldn't have had to buy another DVD drive and parts for a rs232 converter. I probably won't even try live until more is known about DVD drive spoofing. Maybe I will make some kind of switch to use the lite-on only for live + originals, and still use the Xtreme for backups + dumping.... maybe if I could find an HD-DVD casing and could make it look nice? or maybe Xbox 1 Xtender style.. remember?
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post Sep 11 2008, 11:28 AM
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They just dropped the price in JP too.
Oh, and they are actualy selling over there.
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post Sep 11 2008, 05:04 PM
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The price is nice, but I'm waiting until the Jasper boards become commonly available. My current unit has RRoD twice on me already (the GPU both times). I've repaired it and upgraded the cooling (this time) but I still doubt it will be the last unit I buy.
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post Sep 11 2008, 05:07 PM
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soo do these have the jasper mobo?
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post Sep 11 2008, 05:42 PM
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MS finally hit the "$200" sweet spot
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post Sep 11 2008, 06:21 PM
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Doubt they included the uk in their sales figures, we still pay £150 for the arcade console which works out roughly $260-270 us dollars, uk customers are getting shafted up the arse as usual!! They would have to drop the uk price to £115 for the arcade pack to equal the us $200 mark.
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post Sep 11 2008, 08:17 PM
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i will be getting another 360 simply to get the hdmi connection to reduce all the wiring crap in my theater - and it was this nice new price point that has allowed me to do just that...
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post Sep 11 2008, 11:13 PM
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QUOTE(scottmuller28 @ Sep 11 2008, 02:28 AM) *

Nintendo wii sales continue to surge without a price cut, go figure!!



I dont know why nintendo's system is doing so well, everyone i know that has a wii has 4 layewrs of dust ontop of it...
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post Sep 11 2008, 11:29 PM
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QUOTE(wassco @ Sep 11 2008, 05:49 PM) *

I dont know why nintendo's system is doing so well, everyone i know that has a wii has 4 layewrs of dust ontop of it...



Because they still payed $250 to get it.

$200 is a good price, IF they solved the RROD wink.gif
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