| ZenfoldorVGI said: Um, this could really boost sales. Makes me want to buy another one. Maybe Microsoft had this in mind when they claimed they were going to beat Sony this gen. If they launch this thing with a game at 149, and put a huge advertising campaign behind it, while confirming that there are no more hardware issues behind the scenes....maybe launch Halo 4 with it. It could turn into a different race than we're seeing now. I mean, if this is real, we have to rethink our predictions. No use going into denial about that. |
That's pretty wishful thinking. M$ is not going to throw money away by cutting the price to $149.99, especially with a bundle deal. The sum total hardware isn't that cheap to produce, and it won't be by late next year either.
This baby won't be cheaper than $249.99 when it hits the shelves sometime late next year, I'm fairly certain. I would expect a price cut to *preceed* the launch announcement, as well, to clear inventory of "the old" and make room for "the new". MS may announce that they are working on a slimline soon, but they will not give an accurate estimate for it... they'll say "late 2009", and get no more specific than that.
OT: I also suspect that the Elite SKU is gonna be axed -- I'd be willing to wager that it already has been, actually, and that once the (probably 2 months worth) of warehouse stores of it are gone, the black 360 "Elite" is gone for a good long while -- until its replaced by a black slimline model (and just a color variation, not a bigger HDD) sometime late next year before the Holidays, but not until then (i.e. no Jasper version).
