New price cut rumor? Put it on the pile...

Devil May Cry 4 is coming to the Xbox 360 and NOT the Playstation 3!!!

In the May 18, 2006 issue of Famitsu magazine, the Devil May Cry producer Hiroshi Kobayashi revealed that plans had changed drastically for Devil May Cry 4! He said that Devil May Cry 4 will now be released for the Xbox 360 and the Wii, but NOT the Playstation 3!

Let's just get one thing straight to all of the people who search for Internet information: When you see an article that says, "Update: Kobayashi has confirmed that Devil May Cry 4 is being released exclusively for the Playstation 3," it was from January 20, 2006! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that May 18th, 2006 is a later point in time! This means that as of right now we have received absolute confirmation that Devil May Cry 4 will be released for the Xbox 360 and the Wii, but not the PS3!

Devil May Cry 4 was nowhere to be seen for the Playstation 3 at the 2006 E3, and its lack of development is the reason why. Kobayashi has said that the Xbox 360 version of the game will be just as good if not better than the PS3 trailer shown at the 2005 E3. In the interview, Kobayashi explains that he is not sure about the power of the Playstation 3, but he makes it clear that Devil May Cry 4 on the Xbox 360 will fully maintain all of the expected quality for the game!

THIS IS AWESOME!!! And it needs to be covered publicly MORE, like the cancellation of WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2007 for the PS3!!!

Here are recent May 18, 2006 hyperlinks to prove this:

(1): http://www.360-hq.com/modules.php?name=Xbox_Games&op=view&id=280&related_gid=280

(2): http://ps3.qj.net/Sony-to-lose-Devil-May-Cry-exclusivity-/pg/49/aid/41766

(3): http://www.360insider.net/articles/05-18-2006/devil-may-cry-coming-to-xbox-360/

I can’t wait!

Zoran,

Thanks for the tip. For future reference, you can click the "Send us tips" link on the right.

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And I appreciate your enthusiasm, but don't spam the comments section.

Thanks again for the tip, though. I imagine most of the Fanboy crew was still distracted by E3 when that story hit. :)

I doubt a $100 drop, although I can imagine as much as a $50 drop. I believe the PGR3 bundle is the most likely situation.

If the Devil cried would it be steam?

There is a price drop coming no doubt.. but MS will deny it until it happens. It just makes sense.

My bet is not a price drop but a hard drive boost as MSFT cuts its production costs. Imagine if the Premium became the core and the Premium received a larger HDD. Such a business model works wonderfully for the iPod, so there is no reason it can't work well for game consoles.

I find a $100 price drop extremely difficult to believe. Knocking 25% of a retail price overnight comes off as desperation, which is something to be avoided even if the reduced price is doable without severe pain.

Considering the extent to which Microsoft subsidizes the price of the Xbox 360 hardware, I'd expect to see a more traditional $20-30 price drop. At most $50 to acknowledge the much higher price point than previous consoles. This gives them a good spike in sales just as some highly anticipated titles are released and brings them much closer to break even on their cost per unit sold. That would do a lot to boost the quarterly results for the entertainment division and leave room for future price cuts as they become necessary.

#5 Matt,

A hard drive boost isn't the same value for the Xbox 360 as it is for the iPod. The entire selling point of the iPod when it launched was its high capacity. Other players based on then flash memory costs were a disappointing and frustrating failure. The first Rio model I tested couldn't hold the entirety of my testbed album (Frank Zappa's Sheik Yerbouti) at a decent quality level in its 64 MB. The iPod was expensive but Apple made a big bet that the combination of capacity and marketing would make it sell. They were right.

It just isn't as big a factor for the 360, though. The hard drive will gain capacity eventually but only when a vendor offer Microsoft a unit of greater capacity for the same or lower price. given a choice between greater hard drive capacity and a slight reduction to the retail price of the system, that price reduction will almost always win. A lower retail price is universal in its appeal while increased hard drive capacity isn't full understood by all consumers and appreciated by fewer still.

Or you could put the HD in the core system, then bundle up the premium. No price cuts, but two packages with expanded content.

this is a very good inforamtion. This product looks good.

The price is very good. I don't know why this rumor keeps popping up.

I'm just waiting for the new, cooler CPU, and then I'll get a 360 regardless of the cost. I have little confidence that the PS3 will be reliable, so I'll wait a couple years before even thinking about a Sony console. :)

It would make sense for MS to include a HD-DVD-drive in the 360 instead of lowering the price. That way they'd compete both featurewise and pricewise with the 360, it would give the HD-DVD-market a substantial market share boost and make it a lot harder for the Blu-Ray format to swamp the market, plus it would stop all current DVD-firmware hacks completely.

I'm surprised MS still hasn't responded to the ongoing Xbox 360 piracy. Currently it's becoming ever easier to hack the DVD drive in order to play copied games. Most people were expecting this kind of piracy to be shortlived since would probably be able to kill the hack with a dashboard update, but so far nothing has been done. Maybe a dashboard update isn't enough, so maybe they're waiting for those redesigned cheaper 360s to seal the loophole. Or that HD-DVD drive if all DVD-drives are inherently vulnerable to this popular hack.

Its the same old story, microsoft wont lower the costs of the X360, it still has to gather back the losses of the original xbox!

Next Gen published an informative article on this news item. It pretty much sums it up.

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3515&Itemid=2

In summary: price drop highly unlikely this year.