lol @ that ad.
These promotions ($70 off arcades for a week in Canada, and then bundling Forza 3 and ODST with the Elite at no extra charge for the spring) make sense given that the 360 needs something to give it a boost at this point. The PS3 offers Blu-Ray, the 360 doesn't. The PS3 offers free online, the 360 doesn't. The PS3 has integrated Wi-Fi, the 360 doesn't (not a big deal for the vast majority of gamers but some gamers have no choice but to use Wi-Fi sadly unless they want to set up a huge ass ethernet cable in the house).
That said, it's not smart for Microsoft to play the razors and blades game at this stage. They can play it more than Sony can (seeing as how Microsoft generates healthy profits year after year whereas the Sony corporation is in the red these days). But Microsoft's shareholders have other plans. They want to see returns on their whooping investments on the Xbox brand. The Xbox division is starting to generate profits quarter-to-quarter (xbox live gold subscriptions are a big part of that apparently) but if they lowered the hardware price and made online multiplayer free, they would forfeit those profits and on top of that lose even more money.
Existing User Log In
New User Registration
Register for a free account to gain full access to the VGChartz Network and join our thriving community.
