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I imagine once Reach has been out for a bit, they'll bundle it with the 360. After marketing it out the Ying-Yang, of course. :P
What they're always up to making as much money off of gamers as they can; charge to play online $50 per year, make you buy their HDDs for more than they're worth, have to pay $100 for WiFi, have to pay $15 for each controller to make it charge and play, and the HD DVD player is a $199 add on.
Make all of them RROD and get the owners to buy another one. Then extend warranty after all potential RROD victims have bought their second Xbox 360 Slim. $$$ in the bank.
What they're always up to making as much money off of gamers as they can; charge to play online $50 per year, make you buy their HDDs for more than they're worth, have to pay $100 for WiFi, have to pay $15 for each controller to make it charge and play, and the HD DVD player is a $199 add on.
patriots7672
$35 for a 12 month. $70 for WiFi and $30 for a wired controller. You just gotta find the deals.
It's still ridiculous though...
Same thing they do every night, Pinky.................TRY TO....
OH, my bad.
I think we're going to see a lot of reshuffling of products and more console/accessory bundles before the release of Natal. I wouldn't even put it past them to release newer models of already existing accessories after Natal comes out, either.
Same thing they do every night, Pinky.................TRY TO....
OH, my bad.
I think we're going to see a lot of reshuffling of products and more console/accessory bundles before the release of Natal. I wouldn't even put it past them to release newer models of already existing accessories after Natal comes out, either.
bez2083
Their Pinky, Their Pinkty & the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain ah classic:lol:
to make a ****load of money
And conquer the gaming industry!! *Dun dun dun* any chance they make the slim and incorporate Natal with it without a HDD and sell it for 199? no since the HDD will be internal (if the shots are real, have a feelin they are) and it'd be a stupid idea to make a new SKU that is comparable to your cheapest one for more expensive, MS is willing to loose money on natal to get a good fanbase going. you'll probably see a slim down with an HDD and Natal for 199 I honestly wouldn't be suprised since MS is also trying to take from th wii.Market the hell out of Halo Reach and see if there's any more exclusives they can buy their way into multiplat. Basically just a bunch of paper deals. It's what Microsoft seems to be good at: throwing money around instead of trying to be the least bit creative.jalexbrownwell, they have opened/opening 5 studios since E3 09, that doubles their total to 10 rather than 5, If anything you'll probably see a few new IP's from now till 2012. Fire bird, robably new IP, Big park, Joy ride. 343 industries, Halo. Spawnpoint studios, Probably new IP, Wingnut interactive, probably new IP.Fazeley studios, actually mostly a test site to help rare but half of their 90 man team is dedicated to natal dev. other half is testing natal games. so there is hope for a new IP soon. besides there's alan wake right around the corner.
i would now be thinking about ignoring the abomination of a pricing sscheme and looking at some flash drive memory for a 360 seriously that has got me intrested in buying a 360 if they are doing what it says on the tin i could use my 32gb Zen (which i hardly use nowadays which is a crying shame ) and have that as my HDD.
[QUOTE="SlimWifi"][QUOTE="JuarN18"]And conquer the gaming industry!! *Dun dun dun*mayceVany chance they make the slim and incorporate Natal with it without a HDD and sell it for 199? no since the HDD will be internal (if the shots are real, have a feelin they are) and it'd be a stupid idea to make a new SKU that is comparable to your cheapest one for more expensive, MS is willing to loose money on natal to get a good fanbase going. you'll probably see a slim down with an HDD and Natal for 199 I honestly wouldn't be suprised since MS is also trying to take from th wii.
wait they are saying the hdd is internal? wow
no since the HDD will be internal (if the shots are real, have a feelin they are) and it'd be a stupid idea to make a new SKU that is comparable to your cheapest one for more expensive, MS is willing to loose money on natal to get a good fanbase going. you'll probably see a slim down with an HDD and Natal for 199 I honestly wouldn't be suprised since MS is also trying to take from th wii.[QUOTE="mayceV"][QUOTE="SlimWifi"] any chance they make the slim and incorporate Natal with it without a HDD and sell it for 199?SlimWifi
wait they are saying the hdd is internal? wow
looks that way since there are 2 SATA ports in on the motherboard, 1 for DVD and the other for the HDD, reason I think it'll be internal and standard is because it'll be near impossible to reach the Port without opening your 360, and using a wire to connect to an external port to attach to the port on a HDD is pretty bad design. other than that, you can look at this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148231 a80 gig SATA drive is about 35 bucks sold at a profit. MS could find one for cheaper. The redesign will cut manufacturing costs, a 360 costs somewhere around 140$ afrter the redesign it could look to be 100 - 90 bucks, ad 30 for a HDD and bundle natal you get loads of sales so that you can make money off of software, I see the Arcade going for 150 until its liquified and the elite for 250, Then new SKU will probably have a high end model, now I just wonder if it means no more Elites, then what the point of bringing the 250Gb over for 130$.I think at this point MS would be crazy to go back to an internal HDD. Obviously they make money off of each additional upgrade HDD people buy, so why would they cut that out. I'm guessing the picture of the Motherboard is for the Natal integrated version of the 360. Maybe the additional SATA port is for Natal hook up. Just a guess though.
yeah but they are putting USB support (16Gb) which will make the HDD demand plummet, I mean if they didn't include an interanl HDD where would the HDDgo? It won't fit on the slim seeing that its the entire length of the 360. the 16 Gb could be to transfer data from an older 360, or to a friends 360. I mean its plausible and I'm leaning towards more likely than not.I think at this point MS would be crazy to go back to an internal HDD. Obviously they make money off of each additional upgrade HDD people buy, so why would they cut that out. I'm guessing the picture of the Motherboard is for the Natal integrated version of the 360. Maybe the additional SATA port is for Natal hook up. Just a guess though.
coasterguy65
What they're always up to making as much money off of gamers as they can; charge to play online $50 per year, make you buy their HDDs for more than they're worth, have to pay $100 for WiFi, have to pay $15 for each controller to make it charge and play, and the HD DVD player is a $199 add on.
patriots7672
funny thing is, you're not required to buy any of that.
XBL is the closest you arrived with your point. and the only reason PSN is free is because of XBL's subscription.
then again, what would PSN be/look like if XBL never existed.
[QUOTE="patriots7672"]
What they're always up to making as much money off of gamers as they can; charge to play online $50 per year, make you buy their HDDs for more than they're worth, have to pay $100 for WiFi, have to pay $15 for each controller to make it charge and play, and the HD DVD player is a $199 add on.
HavocV3
funny thing is, you're not required to buy any of that.
XBL is the closest you arrived with your point. and the only reason PSN is free is because of XBL's subscription.
then again, what would PSN be/look like if XBL never existed.
2 things:
1. You are required to buy an HDD to be able to play Xbox backwards capable games on it, and even though wi-fi is optional, it still is an item for those that need to go online without a 100 ft ethernet cable running.
2. I just have to ask out of curiosity: Is Christian Bale actually trying to out nod Kermit the Frog? He's crazy if he thinks he's going to win!!!
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