Two Holiday 250GB Xbox 360 Bundles Announced

[NightDragon83]

sales2099 said:

NightDragon83 said:

bonkers555 said:
This pretty much confirm that they have no interested in having a Price-Cut this Holiday season.

Don't think they really need to yet... I think they're saving that for next year when Sony inevitably cuts the PS3's price to $199.  M$ will prolly do a $50 price cut across the board for the 4GB model, the 250GB model, and Kinect itself.

But MS has went on record many times this year saying they planned 360 to be the top selling console in 2011 globally. Right now Europe and Japan PS3 sales are too much for NA 360 sales to compensate for. 

Its really puzzling how MS is not budging on the price, especially since there has been no official price cut since 2008. 

That was most likely just PR bullcrap... they knew Sony was going to outsell them in Europe and Japan no matter what, so why cut the price further when it wouldn't change the outcome anyway, and they'd end up losing all that money they would have made otherwise?

Though I agree that these holiday bundles are totally lame... what parent is gonna spend $400 on that crappy Kinect bundle for their kids?  If anything, M$ should have dropped the price of the standalone Kinect units down to $100, and introduced a 4GB bundle w/ Kinect for just $250 for the holidays.  That would really have boosted sales without cutting too much out of their bottom line.