Due to a leak in Walmarts super-duper intelligence dept. (you know, the one next to the donuts) now we know the official and definitive MSRP of the X360 and its games. The console/unit/system/dildo will retail at 299 with 99 cents (w00t! 1tz n0t 300 bucks!!1) wich left me with a happy sensation in my pants (my pockets to be precise you pervs) :-D Now the games: ugly. PerfectDarkZero and PGR3 already have a 59.99 price tag, wich confirms that the games in this generation will be more expensive. This left my GF heartbroken, since my johnshon can no longer stand to such outrage :smt009 SO, you better start making some extra money, specially the euro guys out there, since there the games are sure to go as high as 70euros each :smt1069
Nothing new there. Sony have been selling PS2 games for stupid rip off prices in Japan for a while now Yakumo
1) Walmart and Intelligence cannot coexist in the same sentence. I still shop there, though. Go figure. 2) 299 is quite a fair price, compared to other consoles I dare not mention. I still cannot afford even a DS, though. Still, it's nice to know it's not going to require for me to sell my organs or get a third job and stop eating for a couple months. 3) Your Johnson issue might also be due to the radiation. Play games from afar and use the Internet for less time. 4) I'm interested in getting an X360... this feels weird. 299 might be affordable if I start saving now. Still, though, I haven't heard a price tag (or nothing much else) for Revolution...
Games are generally £40 over here in expensive shops, around 30-35 in cheaper places. So we're paying over $60 - Hopefully they won't raise the prices any more :no MS has generally been reasonably decent in terms of releases in PAL land, so hopefully They won't raise prices of games. And maybe, just maybe for the first time for a console launch they can ditch the shitty $300=£300 conversion games companies seem to love....
$299 is what I paid for my original Xbox back on launch day 2001. A fair price and one that I won't have any issue paying if I decided to be a first-in-line guy.
Ha, $59.99 is still less than we pay in the UK. When new systems come out games are always more expensive. It's simply a way of showing the consumer than "Hey, these new games are better".
If thats a marketing strategy, then i think a better name would be "bent over hoe, and dont cry" :smt043
Call me crazy, but I kind of think the $59.99 suggested retail price of new games might be good for the industry in the long run. I'll certainly be more careful about which games I buy as well as putting more time into the games that I buy. While inexpensive games are nice, sometimes I find myself buying 3 or 4 cheap titles, playing them once and never touching them again.
So why doesn't everyone wait six months till the price drops, or at least some decent games come out? By then the first batch of releases will be available secondhand. No point spending $££$lots just to have it sat there for six months before the good games start rolling out (unless you want a cheap BluRay DVD). Or just to play your Xbox games on a 360. I got stung by the Xbox price drop. Nothing I could do about it, and I ended up with 2 games I didn't really want and a crap pad. I know it's cool to have stuff the day it comes out and all, but when we're talking saving a good $100/£65 just by waiting and carrying on playing the current gen it seems to make sense to wait.
Of course. I generally follow this logic as it is. But there was something just utterly cool about being one of the first to play Halo and PGR on Nov 15, 2001 before millions of others....particularly since the systems were in short supply up through Christmas of that year.
If there is a really decent game (like halo on xbox at release) then i will buy one! However if there isnt a game that i reallllly need to play then ill wait till xmas or something while the dust settles and i get a HDTV!.
Sure, we may get the cheapest pricing, but we always get the shaft when it comes to special editions/omake. You could always import... I'm also curious, has anyone else preordered yet? I have 3
The launch games look excellent for the machine. I don't see a reason not to buy it at launch, unless they don't appeal to you.
by chance, did you find out about the prices of the accessories, like the new controllers and such? Thanks
