X360 pro price drops to $299 to get ready for the 60G

[quaiky]

Burgles said:

quaiky said:
somewhere i ehared that sony is negotiating with harddisk manufacorers too about bigger hds so i would expect them to bring bigger hds too when they bring out the next revamped model with the shrinked gfx chip and i guess also without a real pricedrop.

 

 Oh right, where did you hear that?

 

seen it on a german tech news page when they announced the gfx chip shrink for this fall, they said there that a sony spokesman told them some time ago that they were negotiating with hd manufactorers. the author of the news hinted at the possibility that the cost reduction will probably not lead to a price cut, but that sony might instead give increased hd sizes to customers.

 

that all makes some sense to me too, a 20-40gb bigger hd will probably cost less than 10$ more at these order amounts, its an easy component to exchange which does not add the need for any new designs, and finally they are planning to launch a video download service this summer which will probably also benifit from increased hd sizes.