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NJ5 on 04 February 2008

For this price, maybe I'd buy a 360. I'd probably evaluate whether I'm missing much by buying this model, and then I'd decide.



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ssj12 on 04 February 2008

This will just make Sony decide to lower the price of the PS3... both Microsoft and Sony are breaking even on their consoles now.



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Munkeh111 on 04 February 2008
darthdevidem01 said:
THis happens

then expect 120GB in UK for £299

& PS3 40GB for £199

I think SONY will continue this price war....seeing as they were in profit
It's just not fair that it cost £425 for us early adopters, although I might be interested in a £200 Premium, although the arcade just does not appeal to me

 



Just_Ben on 04 February 2008

hmmm i figured that the prices in europe will fall far greater then in the U.S.

I personally thought Sony will do that first.



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libellule on 04 February 2008

This could help to match the PS3 sales numbers

but if they just focus on the arcade sku it will not do so much more ...



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darthdevidem01 on 04 February 2008

@munkeh11

that risk is always there when buying a product on launch...

too bad if it cost us that much...



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Goddbless on 04 February 2008
ssj12 said:
This will just make Sony decide to lower the price of the PS3... both Microsoft and Sony are breaking even on their consoles now.

Hasn't MS been making a profit from each console sold for some time now? 



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kingofwale on 04 February 2008

>Hasn't MS been making a profit from each console sold for some time now?

I'd hope so. As long as they don't have to replace every one of the console sold now with another due to RRoD, they are pretty comfortably sitting in black



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rocketpig on 04 February 2008
Kyros said:
Hmmm I originally l had hoped that the 360 would die a fast death like the Xbox. So I could get a console and some best off games in the clearance sale.
But since seems increasingly unlikely this price gets slowly in the area where I would just buy it to play Halo3 and Mass Effects. It wouldn't replace my black monolith simply for aesthetical reasons but I would really like to play Halo... If it was more reliable I would buy one on Ebay.

They appear to have their problems fixed with the Falcons. While there is little empirical data to go on to prove this, NeoGAF has a thread with 1200 broken 360s listed... And two of them are Falcons. Both from the same guy, both optical drive failures.

I think the RRoD may be in the past now. I know that I'm going to give mine another six months and then I'm going to intentionally RRoD it in hopes of getting a Falcon or Jasper (coming in the next six months or so).




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Kyros on 04 February 2008

"and then I'm going to intentionally RRoD it "

LOL how do you do that? Cover the air-holes? I think this is a dangerous thing since you apparently often get refurbished old machines from repair. Good luck anyway. BTW it may be possible that the machines that are now on sale are already better but I think buying a used one will still be dangerous for the foreseeable future.