Microsoft's Xbox price cuts are welcome, but.........

[JaggedSac]

DMeisterJ said:

JaggedSac said:

DMeisterJ said:

JaggedSac said:
Why does someone have to have a hd?

I don't know... Maybe for using like 50 percent of what it is good for?  Downloading Movies and TV shows and retro XBLA games that are for the "casual" audience?  Isn't that why they put the lion king and disney movies like that on XBLM?  For kids and stuff? I mean, unless grown men love Snow White...

The hard drive is needed for the really big casual push with Netflix coming this fall, which is for the casuals, it's needed for that.

So no one will buy the arcade sku just to play games on?  Hmm.

Of course people will.

But has MS not said that the 199 price point is the "mainstream" price?

Is Netflix, and the Movie and TV show rentals not for the mainstream?

MS is pushing Arcade to the mainstream, but leaving out a huge portion of work they did to get the mainstream, which was the netflix deal, and the movies and shows.

The arcade is good for the cheap gamer, but for the mainstream, which MS believes the price is for, it's kind of weird that your stuff of the mainstream can't be done without bringing the price up to the more expensive models.

Has DD taken off with the mainstream?