European Xbox boss not feeling pressured to cut 360 price

@LimitedVertigo

Would it surprised you further to learn i've been a hardcore gamer for 25 years or so and i only own a Wii, never owned a Ps3 or 360.

@LimitedVertigo

I did own both systems. Actualy my 360 was my preferred console for a while (multilplats) but when it Red Ringed I never bothered to replace it.

And I was only 1 month over the 3 year limit T__T

@Foetoid
I think I'm more surpirsed to hear the phrase hardcore gamer and Wii in the same sentence. I am a hardcore gamer, I've been gaming since the days of the Commodore Vic 20 and have had a gaming platform to hand ever since. My children won a Wii but would rather use it for BBC Iplayer than the current selection of games on offer.
The main reason I own a 360 is simply the choice on offer compared to the PS3. Microsoft has no intention of a price reduction because their competative edge definately doesn't rely on pricing but more on monopolising the francise.

@Neovampyre I've been a hardcore gamer since the Odyssey days when KC Munskin and KC Crazychase were the games to play.

@LimitedVertigo

For the record i do have a Ps2 and a mid-high-end gaming PC, and if i had the funds i'd probably have a Ps3 and/or 360.

@SgtDookie
Yea like you point to the features you have to spend extra for? Guy aint got no swag

@wario2295
"Guy ain't got no swag"
That's awesome, definately the most gangster comment I've read in response to the pricing strategies, and marketing spin of Microsofts executive team.

@SgtDookie Seriously... and it's even worse than that! XBL is $50 PER YEAR and the Kinect is $150!!!

@wrongThinker It's sixty per year now.

@Virus one
But if your paying any more than $30 a year for gold YOUR DOING IT WRONG

@wrongThinker

You can find Kinect much cheaper. RRP here is 129,99 €. I paid 60 €.

@SgtDookie

Bravo! I wish the reporter responded with that statement.

@SgtDookie

I don't see your point. He never said they were free, just that you have to have a 360 to access them, and for some (many) people that IS a selling point.

It's no different than Directv or a million other things. Directv is more expensive than Dish, but if you want NFL Sunday Ticket then you have to gete Directv. Sunday Ticket isn't free, but it's still a selling point of Directv and is the reason that many people (including me) have it.

Even further, don't people (both execs and people on here...heck probably you yourself have said it before) constantly argue the merits of one system or another based on exclusive games? You realize those games aren't free, right? If you say that people should buy the PS3 because then they can play games like Uncharted 3, KZ3, etc it's not like they get those games for free. You're paying for the console to get ACCESS to the ability to pay for those games.

Something doesn't have to be free to be a selling point, as is evidenced by the countless millions of people that have made their choice based on paid extra services like XBL or Sunday ticket, or have made their choice based on paid extra items like Kinect or Move or some stupid Wii Scale thingy or any various number of exclusive games.

@Vcize

No way. Now you're just making too much sense. Try again when you want free stuff too.

@(Unverified) Hey if you have the money go for it, that way you never miss out on exclusives for either system. Make sure you pick up Alan Wake, it's well worth it.

@Mustang Fanboy

they've been outsold by PS3 for a couple years in Europe so i doubt that this what might motivate them to drop their price.

@Mustang Fanboy And pretty much every single month this year world sales wise. The US sales do well enough though.

@Shockwave

But the cheapest 360 is still $50 less expensive than the cheapest PS3 ...

@A Sandwich If thats all the difference needed to sell Blu Ray, $50 is a steal.

@Cavall

I agree, but I don't know that my mom does.

@Cavall

Discs for movies are over. I haven't bought a bluray in over a year. I stream all my movies in HD now. It's cheaper and faster.

@pradius I agree, everything I watch is Digital it seems like. If it ever came down to it I would rather spend $75 or less on a Blu-Ray player as although the PS3 has one its not its strong point and most people that I have seen do that regret it and say its not worth it at all.

@pradius

That's well and fine if you've got the bandwidth and download allowance. Some of us mere mortals are capped at 30 GB/month.... As ridiculous as it sounds.

@Shockwave

Won't ignorant parents who just look at the price sticker just pick up the cheapie version of the 360?

Granted, of the three (real 360, PS3, arcade 360) it's definitely the worst value, but if your argument is that typical gamer parents don't know anything about the console features and value and just automatically pick up the one that's $50 cheaper, then it seems like MS has that covered as well with the cheapie 360.

@skullivan

Canada only. For a limited time.

@Wizardsofwaverly

LOL! "games?"

@Bro

Couldn't you say the same about the Wii, given it's hardware?

I do agree though- a year of XBL gold with a new console purchase is a great idea. Get them hooked so they'll want to pay when it expires. This is the sort of strategy MS has never really understood, but it works very well.

@Tephlon The Wii definitely deserves a price drop since it's using dated hardware that's cheap to produce. The Wii should be atleast $99 and bundled with a couple games. I got a feeling that they may either drop it to $99 or bundle it with 2 games at the current price.

I wouldn't be surprised if you're trolling. Either way, you'd enjoy games more if you get a 360 or ps3.

Hows that coleco vision holding up.