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S.T.A.G.E. on 26 August 2008
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Spankey said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Spankey said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Spankey said:
wow those poor guys getting one of those new $199 consoles without a hard drive are going to be upset.

 

Ever heard of Ebay? You can get a much better deal on hard drives. $199 is a great price, especially if there are people willing to purchase a 20 GB hard drive on ebay.

 

"no I haven't. what is this Ebay and why was is my console gimped?

I knew it was a bad buy at that price.

Oh well. next time I won't buy an Xbox" says the average consumer who doen't give a rats ass about having to go through Ebay to make a console work properly.

What the hell are you talking about? The 120 GB is $179, The 20 GB is $99. I was just helping with getting a deal. At least Microsoft deserves to make profit off of the Hard drives. Sony's can be easily replaced at a much cheaper price by a non Sony brand. Have we found a glitch in the matrix now? Yet...Sony still tries to get people to buy their 160 GB so that they can keep the price up to $400. Microsoft made it iron clad, without loopholes.

 

for that price (199+99), if i was an average consumer looking for a console, I'd get a Wii. there's the loophole.

I was alluding to the Arcade bundle. When the Jasper comes out and if the reviews are positive, I'll buy buy the Elite.

I'm saying that the people who will buy the $199 console (and there will be many) will feel upset that to get this DLC they'll need to fork out an extra $120 ($100 for HDD + $20 for the DLC) and so probably won't bother with it, and might even feel they've been shammed.

 

The 360 isn't the Wii. $200 for an HD console is a great incentive for anyone who couldn't get it before hand. When they go to gamestop they could probably trade in a couple of games a pick up a 20 GB Hard drive or if they have the cash thats fine too. A $200 price tag isn't what lures casual people (or average consumers as you put it), it's the playability of the system and obviously the Wii has that lure to mass demographics. The 360's price tag is a lure for the gamers who want an HD system but cannot afford it over $300 (IE: The 60% of people who purchased PS2's after the first three years were those people).

Also, who said the people who buy a new 360 arcade will need to buy GTA immediately? Consumers who are frugal and are patient waiters tend to to buy Platinum hits/Greatest hits or just purchase used games. For people like that GTA can wait.