| VGKing said: "At retail, both a 4GB Xbox 360 w/Kinect and a 250GB Xbox 360 are $299.99." This is probably the biggest issue here. This console is 8 years old! Same goes for PS3 as Sony actually increase the price of entry with the Super Slim. These consoles are way too expensive for their age. The more people that buy into these plans, the longer we will go without price drops. The late adopters are the ones who can potentially get screwed in the future. |
Actually, as mobilephones go, the price will go down.
Back in the 1990's when I sold phones, intially they were $600, then $500, then $300, then $200, then $100, then $20, then $10, and finally they became free. That was within about 2 years. We went from not having any cell service, to spotty service, to excellent service all in that time period. We sold exactly the same phone, a 3 Watt Nokia Mobile (bag) phone. Once the price hit $100 we sold a ton of them. People couldn't buy them fast enough and we couldn't get them in fast enough.
The majority of people bought them for one thing, emergency use. At that time, you paid for every incoming and every outgoing minute, except for emergency (911) calls.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say Microsoft will announce at some point a reduction in price for EFA purchased consoles. My thoughts will be it'll be significant, so significant that'll make purchasing it a no-brainer. With the Xbox 8 coming out, and a disc-less Xbox 360 device, I think Microsoft will push the original Xbox 360.
