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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Woah! Buy a X360 between now & Dec 21st, get a copy of Halo 3 FREE!

ioi said:
Crap, how am I supposed to track these?!?!

Don't you have a magic tracking elf that does that?



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Whoa!......oh wait never mind, its a 360....Id rather buy a 2 Wiis than a brick.



ioi said:
Crap, how am I supposed to track these?!?!

Ask Diomedes1976.

On-topic: I don't see why they wouldn't do so. They have made their money back on Halo 3 already (even with the huge marketing costs), so they might as well give an excuse for current Halo 3 players to convince their friends to get a 360 and play with them.

darendt said:
Whoa!......oh wait never mind, its a 360....Id rather buy a 2 Wiis than a brick.


2 Wiis? That's like 4 GameCubes plus the duct tape!

 



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I wonder how fast they will expedite the copies of Halo3. Yes I know it says by January 18th... but I wonder if they will try to get as many of those as they can out by Christmas.

I have the money to pull the trigger... this may seal the deal for me. I was hoping for one more price drop, but I WOULD be buying both Forza 2 and Halo3 if I were buy the unit a year from now.

Of course I'll wait till the link is live again to double check!



Well the link doesn't work now, but I'll trust this deal is coming soon.

Microsoft is a crazy company. But even though the amount of software they're giving away is unorthodox, this isn't exactly a dumb move.

Two games that had easily covered their development and one which had stopped selling. Cost to MS to produce and ship all 3 games? Maybe $10 or $12. Value to consumers? Over $100.

Or, a $50 price cut. Cost to MS? $50. Value to consumers? $50.

360 still has to find those customers, though. Are people uninterested in Forza and Halo going to buy a 360 for them? No. The other side of the coin is being careful not to damage those great third party game sales.



And oh yeah... Major win for the >1.5M of you who were going to buy a 360 this holiday anyways!



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"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."

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great deal i have to admit. hopefully this is well advertised in commercials and what not.



NJ5 said:
ioi said:
Crap, how am I supposed to track these?!?!

Ask Diomedes1976.

Its not on a Sony console so it has negative sales. Even then it'll be overtracked.

 



Diomedes1976 Official Time-Machine Hardware Tracking Service:

PS3s sold between now and January 1st, 2007: 136 million
Xbox 360s sold between now and January 1st, 2007: 4

Wow that's an awesome deal. I wish I had the money to take part in it:(



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Wow. I'd be really tempted if it wasn't for the fact that the hardware problems still persist with the 360.