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X-boxes to drop by £100 across europe, to rrp £199.
"He's got a huge hand. Oh my goodness, this is incerdible. This is uglier than a meddusa with seven heads..."
Admittedly not a quote relating to x-box itself, but to a poker hand that apparantly was quite good on channel 4's late night poker. But i think it expresses the situation quite nicely.
Well, ninty did the same thing with the 64. But this feels like a marketing ploy to me. Not least because they're compensating everyone who bought a console at full price with 2 games and a controller, and it's happening with such gamecube-crushing timing.
So for £50 more on the rrp, you get x-box instead of gamecube, and a dvd player when you get the required add-on stuff. Frankly, i don't know where nintendo would be without pokemon after the n64 did something between a dreamcast and a saturn (in my opinion, but lets not start that debate up : ) ). But with microsoft having, i believe, far superior advertising, a more favourable release date and by this point a better image than the fairly unremarkably advertised, post-price drop released, often stereotyped as 'kiddy' (*wases mouth out* ; ) ) gamecube, i think ninty may be in need of something huge to get themselves out of this little scrape.
And remember, if everyone prices the x-box to £199 (as sr have), and gamecube to £170 (as seems the trend), the diference isn't even £50. Obviously. It'd be £30.
If i hadn't ordered my gamecube, and didn't have a dvd player, i think i'd probably defect to microsoft myself!
: S
"He's got a huge hand. Oh my goodness, this is incerdible. This is uglier than a meddusa with seven heads..."
Admittedly not a quote relating to x-box itself, but to a poker hand that apparantly was quite good on channel 4's late night poker. But i think it expresses the situation quite nicely.
Well, ninty did the same thing with the 64. But this feels like a marketing ploy to me. Not least because they're compensating everyone who bought a console at full price with 2 games and a controller, and it's happening with such gamecube-crushing timing.
So for £50 more on the rrp, you get x-box instead of gamecube, and a dvd player when you get the required add-on stuff. Frankly, i don't know where nintendo would be without pokemon after the n64 did something between a dreamcast and a saturn (in my opinion, but lets not start that debate up : ) ). But with microsoft having, i believe, far superior advertising, a more favourable release date and by this point a better image than the fairly unremarkably advertised, post-price drop released, often stereotyped as 'kiddy' (*wases mouth out* ; ) ) gamecube, i think ninty may be in need of something huge to get themselves out of this little scrape.
And remember, if everyone prices the x-box to £199 (as sr have), and gamecube to £170 (as seems the trend), the diference isn't even £50. Obviously. It'd be £30.
If i hadn't ordered my gamecube, and didn't have a dvd player, i think i'd probably defect to microsoft myself!
: S
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X-boxes to drop by £100 across europe, to rrp £199.
"He's got a huge hand. Oh my goodness, this is incerdible. This is uglier than a meddusa with seven heads..."
Admittedly not a quote relating to x-box itself, but to a poker hand that apparantly was quite good on channel 4's late night poker. But i think it expresses the situation quite nicely.
Well, ninty did the same thing with the 64. But this feels like a marketing ploy to me. Not least because they're compensating everyone who bought a console at full price with 2 games and a controller, and it's happening with such gamecube-crushing timing.
So for £50 more on the rrp, you get x-box instead of gamecube, and a dvd player when you get the required add-on stuff. Frankly, i don't know where nintendo would be without pokemon after the n64 did something between a dreamcast and a saturn (in my opinion, but lets not start that debate up : ) ). But with microsoft having, i believe, far superior advertising, a more favourable release date and by this point a better image than the fairly unremarkably advertised, post-price drop released, often stereotyped as 'kiddy' (*wases mouth out* ; ) ) gamecube, i think ninty may be in need of something huge to get themselves out of this little scrape.
And remember, if everyone prices the x-box to £199 (as sr have), and gamecube to £170 (as seems the trend), the diference isn't even £50. Obviously. It'd be £30.
If i hadn't ordered my gamecube, and didn't have a dvd player, i think i'd probably defect to microsoft myself!
: S
"He's got a huge hand. Oh my goodness, this is incerdible. This is uglier than a meddusa with seven heads..."
Admittedly not a quote relating to x-box itself, but to a poker hand that apparantly was quite good on channel 4's late night poker. But i think it expresses the situation quite nicely.
Well, ninty did the same thing with the 64. But this feels like a marketing ploy to me. Not least because they're compensating everyone who bought a console at full price with 2 games and a controller, and it's happening with such gamecube-crushing timing.
So for £50 more on the rrp, you get x-box instead of gamecube, and a dvd player when you get the required add-on stuff. Frankly, i don't know where nintendo would be without pokemon after the n64 did something between a dreamcast and a saturn (in my opinion, but lets not start that debate up : ) ). But with microsoft having, i believe, far superior advertising, a more favourable release date and by this point a better image than the fairly unremarkably advertised, post-price drop released, often stereotyped as 'kiddy' (*wases mouth out* ; ) ) gamecube, i think ninty may be in need of something huge to get themselves out of this little scrape.
And remember, if everyone prices the x-box to £199 (as sr have), and gamecube to £170 (as seems the trend), the diference isn't even £50. Obviously. It'd be £30.
If i hadn't ordered my gamecube, and didn't have a dvd player, i think i'd probably defect to microsoft myself!
: S
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