If there is a $149 360 ARCADE this year, WHAT would happen?

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Train wreck said:

dorbin2009 said:

Train wreck said:

It would devalue the xbox 360 as it just had a series of price reductions. You need to space price cuts or you will start alienating customers who just purchased your product

It's only been about a year since the last Arcade price cut. I think they are okay to do so as long as they wait until holiday season.

You also have to factor in that the Arcade unit is for the casual gamer/family unit, so its not so much about what the price was, but rather the fact that they can purchase an Xbox 360 and still have 150 dollars to work with, as opposed to a 299$ Slim. It would be a great move, but who knows if they'll actually make it.

Nintendo and Sony will play the parpherial game saying to get the true value out of a 150 xbox, you will need to pay for the following:

wifi, HDD blah blah we know the routine, also that price point brings in more competition from the Nintendo DS and PSP which in terms of casuals the Xbox will lose 99.9% of the time.

Until internal components become cheaper a $199 xbox is fine, they can add a hdd or bundle a full game and it will have better results than a price cut imo of course.

There wouldn't be any competition between handhelds and home consoles.  People looking for one won't magically switch to the other.  In fact if anything it would have the reverse affect of what you suggested.  People will go look for PSPs and DSi's and see a 360 for cheaper than that, see what all extra it offers like HD gaming, marketplace, Netflix, arcade games, Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, demos, videos, etc. and choose a home console Xbox 360 over a handheld.  Just saying.