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"Xbox £99 for Xmas"

Did you know that the Xbox will go down to £99.99 for Christmas ? And Dead or Alive 3, Project Gotham Racing and Ralisport Challenge will be reduced to £19.99. I kid you not my friends, at that price I will pick up another one and so will you!

Microsoft will not let the Xbox fail and with nearly 70 original titles I can't afford it it either.

So who will win the Xmas battle ? Well ask yourself this even if Sony dropped the price of the now outdated PS2 to £99.99 for Christmas which one would you want to buy ? The Xbox and that's what the majority will be saying too.

Sony have been creaming the profits and keeping the price of the PS2 artificially high for far to long, they soon dropped their plans for the PS3 didn't they because it simply couldn't compete with the Xbox. Nintendo have said that they will not make another console ever so it's a straight fight between Sony and Microsoft and one that I can see Microsoft winning in the end. They have very deep pockets and if you look at the PC market how many PC's run on Windows ? Microsoft have succeeded at everything at everything they do and they will not lose even if they have to drop the price of the Hardware and software still further.

Microsoft have the backing of the Developers and have signed up many exclusives that will never appear on Sony's outdated PS2, they have snapped up Rare which was part owned by Nintendo and who were responsible for many of Nintendo's successful titles so in the long run the Xbox will come out on top.

Independent research has suggested that the Xbox will have sold 35 Million Xbox consoles by 2005, this was based on actual sales figures and was commissioned prior to the price reduction, so what now ? well Microsoft will be on target for sales of around £50 Million Units by 2005 if there's another price reduction at Xmas.

March will be a good time.

Being a whole year after the Xbox launch, another cut can be expected.
What's more, Xbox live should be out around then, and Kameo too...

It would have done by christmas cause im buying one...

Although I'll be doing it with my teeth firmly clenched.

I'm guessing he means sales.

4.7 m pounds at an average 200 pounds per console...

4,700,000 divided vy 200 = 23,500 Xbox's sold worldwide...

Now THAT'S not right! :-)


Anyway, I'm not sure if it's reached 4.7 million yet.

Japan only has 300,000 total.
America will be around 3 million.
Do you think they've sold 1.5 million here?

gamezfreak wrote:
> Sorry er-no, the Xbox has reached slaes limits of what they have
> expected at the end of the financial year. £4.7 million units
> sold worldwide.

£4.7 million
or 4.7 million sold

which one is it?

Maverick42 wrote:
> For GC's. And I don't think the X-Box has sold 4.7 million yet...

Who knows? Sales figures can always be made up you know, thats why i never take notice to them. I mean get this, The PS2 is apprently selling 50 thousand a week, 2 years after the release, Is'nt that a bit suspicious?

For GC's. And I don't think the X-Box has sold 4.7 million yet...

4 million was as of the first of August this year.

I thought it was 3.9 million, GC had sold 4 million last time I looked. And as for GBA being crap, it sells 10x the amount that X-Box does in Japan, although. the X-Box is more succesful in America than it is in Japan ;)

Sorry er-no, the Xbox has reached slaes limits of what they have expected at the end of the financial year. £4.7 million units sold worldwide.

Savatt78 wrote:
> MS won't put the price back up. Yes it was a good move to make for
> Christmas - but its also been brought dwn because the parts required
> to build the console are cheaper now as well.

Although that may be what they say as a reason, fact is they knew the price needed to be lowered, as at the moment the XBox has failed Microsoft in terms of what they have expected.