Microsoft has taken care to assure everyone that its slashing of the Xbox 360 Elite’s price by $100 has nothing whatsoever to do with Sony’s imminent release of the PS3 Slim.
Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg, boss of product management for the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, told a journalist:
“Typically these types of price changes are targeted to drive sales for the holiday season. However it is difficult for our retail partners to make these types of changes in November or December so we try to work with them to make these types of adjustments before things get too hectic at retail.”
Nothing at all to do with Sony.
Being a hopeless PR flack, he also leaps on the chance to rubbish the PS3 when asked what he thinks about it:
“I guess as a gamer, I am glad I got an earlier PS3 console before they pulled a lot of the functionality like backwards compatibility out.”
Curiously, Microsoft dropped support for “Xbox Originals” earlier in the year, and by now many early adopters of the Xbox 360 are rather familiar with the company’s very reasonable warranty offering…
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Why is everyone suddenly bashing 360.
FACT #1 360 has outsold PS3 2 to 1 in the U.S
(12 million to 6 million)
FACT #2 360 has outsold PS3 in U.K and Canada
FACT #3 360 has outsold PS3 WorldWide:30 mil to 24 mil
FACT #4 Sony has lost a ton of money on PS3
FACT #5 EVEN PSP has outsold PS3 both in U.S and Japan
FACT #6 PC World (magazine) named PS3 one of the top 10 biggest screw ups in the tech world when it was released in 2006.
Facts are Facts you can't argue with them.
fact - you're a beanie homo
If we were to accept your "facts":
1) Difference between 360 and ps3 sales in US: 6 million
2) Difference between 350 and ps3 sales worldwide: 6 million
3) This implies that outside the US, 360 and ps3 are in a dead heat
4) At least some of those sales units are RROD replacements.
NO, You are wrong, 360 is outselling PS3 everywhere except Japan. In fact Japan is outselling 360 by about 2-3 million.
ANOTHER FACT: Japanese are VERY xenophobic they don't like to buy products from a foreign market, they would keep buying the PS3 no matter what, thats just the way they are.
U.S buyers however are not xenophobic with products, they can care less which nation the company is from or if the product itself is foreign, PS2 outsold the original Xbox by a landslide.
BTW, when you said that some of the sale units were replacements, THEY WERE NOT. Thats not the way console sales are calculated.
I'm not a PS hatter, In fact I still believe PS2 is the best console I've ever bought. I'm just frustrated that people keep saying false things to try to hype up the PS3, the PS3 has been an epic FAIL from Sony from the beginning, maybe when they make "PS4" or whatever I'll come around.
what a punal
still think you're a super maricon...
Aaron Greenberg.
nothing to add, name is enough.
"Xbox Originals"....
People remember the original Xbox! LOLWUT
Despite all these attacks on the 360, doesn't it just make it even more sad such a highly inferior product sells better than the godly legend of a product that is the PS3?
Goes to show that 360 buyers are stupid. Just let them be. They can isolated themselves in their own stupid world. No need to acknowledge their pathetic existence.
KZ2 was the best FPS ever made, amirite?
Sarcasm is a great thing.
Obviously PS3 fanboys are too retarded to notice an obvious use of ironic sarcasm. I guess I should've expected this from idiots who were able to lie to themselves and claim KZ2 was "the best FPS ever" when it was pretty much shit.
Sony's dominant reign over the gaming community ended with the PS2. I've believed Sony was the best console company since the PS, but shit do I regret buying a PS3.
I'm not saying it's a shitty system, but almost every multi-platform game released is better played on the 360 or PC, and they have few exclusive games worth playing. Fucking bribe developers to use your more powerful console to its full extent, retards.
Kia sells more cars then Ferrari.
/claps slowly.
What a great comparison. You must've thought that was actually witty. Good for you!
A good 360 is a "modified" 360. At least if you buy pirated 360 games it won't be much of a blow (in finances) if ever you get an RROD. Only stupid people would buy original games for defective consoles. If I'm gonna play online games I'd rather play in the PC or PS3. Not in a defective piece of crap like the Microshit 360.
Fear not, I STILL loves you 360!!!
Come on, Greenberg... It has NOTHING to do with the PS3 slim?
Who are you trying to fool?
That girl in the pic isn't getting a RROD, she's just fooled by the Scarecrow's realistic faux-crashing tricks.
right...
how long does a xbox 360 typically last before the RROD?
You'll never know....
Depends on whether or not your an idiot and leave it on all the time. RROD = Overheating.
The reason they probably dropped Xbox Originals is because there probably isn't as much demand for them any more anyway.
Sure, people would still wanna play Halo 1 and Halo 2 right after the 360 came out, but when Halo 3 was out, and roughly every single game on the Originals list was outclassed or sequeled by something, there isn't much of a point...
Now, no one can know for sure, but I'd say that what he (Aaron) was saying was probably true, but the PS3 Slim might have been another incentive. *shrug*
These are all PR talks, of course they won’t say that because of the PS3 Slim and the price cut they are doing price cuts for the 360 as well, all these are stupid PR stunts -.-
Sorry i didn't realise i was not logged in just now =/
These are all PR talks, of course they won't say that because of the PS3 Slim and the price cut they are doing price cuts for the 360 as well, all these are stupid PR stunts -.-
"Reporters can't seem to decide if the three hundred dollar PS3 Slim is awesome or *too* awesome, when it's actually a barbed black crown of shame, and that's more or less the end of the discussion. It can't be seen as anything but a concession to a market that has consistently chosen their competitor's products - an act of contrition, the purest evidence possible that this brand is no longer sufficient to sway consumers. There is an optional stand available that allows you to stand the system vertically, on its side - making the system a literal tombstone, as well as a figurative one."
Now, I don't really agree with this quote, and in fact plan to buy a slim to go along with my XBox so I can finally play some Valkyria, and maybe the full version of Vesperia too. But *that* doesn't really incite fanboy rage... so here we are.
I wonder if the 52% Xbox 360 failure rate is because MS' repair depot is "re-working" the bad units insufficiently carefully, and then shipping them back out as "warranty replacement units"?
I'm fairly happy with my new PS/3. ($300.00 for the 80GB 'fat' model), because it was easy to put Linux on it.
There's a certain 'cool' factor:
"Dude, I need to check my website. Have ya got a PC I can use?"
"Sure, in the living room."
"I don't _SEE_ a PC in here..."
"It's the PS/3. Keyboard and mouse are under the table. Just turn on the projector, turn on the PS/3, and face the long wall."
I wouldn't get a PS3 just so i can use linux on it, that beats the purpose of a gaming console, If you want a gaming console just so you can install Linux on it, you're better off just building a low-end computer with those $300.
This all comes down to which games you wanna play, and get the console that has those games, functions other than gaming functions are simple extras that you can do without.
You should be glad, the PS3 slim has his linux function stripped.
I was going to get an Arcade just to play some JRPGs but then a couple of things happened:
- I tried the demo of Last Remnant on PC and turned out it sucked
- I discovered the difference between western and JP versions of Star Ocean 4: they took out the anime drawings for the US version so that sucks
- I read reviews that Enchanted Arms and Infinite Undiscovery sucks
- I was hyped by Lost Odyssey but then watched some gameplay trailers and its too photorealistic for my taste so that sucks
- It seems the Bandai Namco JRPGs eventually get ported to PS3 with more content, so that sucks for Xbox 360 owners
- PS3 price finally one where I took the bait, so it sucks to be Microsoft
Bandai Namco is loyal only to one system and country.You see how they region lock all the really go titles?
No PS3 games are region locked.
Ooooh... Now I gotta think over getting another Xbox 360 to get the HDMI :)
What does this have to do with ps3 slim? its same crap in slim size, It's not real a threat for Xbox 360 o_o
Your absolutely right.A slimmed down version of a console with next to zero games still equals an empty goose egg.
artefact would you mind to stop blaming xbox?
I mean we all know 360 is way better than shity ps3. fack yes!
You don't know what 3 years of bullying by Xbots can do.
PS3 fanboys are finally vindicated, give him a break.
"we all know 360 is way better than shity ps3."
Nope, i didn't (and still don't) know that.
The 360 is better than the PS3 because most games are designed for the 360 and then ported to the PS3.
So what's the point to buy those games just to look at the cover while waiting for your ShitBox to get repaired? Oh, I know, you like to SHOW your games but not PLAY them, amirite?
fuck u...fuck microsoft.....
You do know, that the Xbox 360 price cut was rumored before the ps3 slim was announced, right?
Since about 1 1/2 months.
I remember this too. But it doesn't really matter when the article was meant to attack the 360 for the sake of attacking the 360.
so....that mean..
MS was sales at 399$ and take profit about 100$ with the same quailty of Hardware and change the price down when Sony can sell their console at 299$?
You know what else? Suddenly a Wii looks like a total rip-off...
Nice and stylishly tiny, with reliable but very outdated hardware.
Like Apple.
WII is shit
Less outdated than this troll
Their software is the reason a piece of out dated shit out sells everything.Can you say ten more year of pokemon?
I have had no trouble with my console. It had frozen twice, but that is it.
My friends too. I don't know what you do to it, but damn, don't put it under your pillow.
YOU Mister just won 3 Internetz plus an COMPLETELY RROD FREE XBOX360.
Now we show you that this console will never have a shitty RROD.
"Tom boot up the console"
"I think the Console is broken"
"Why?"
"Because there are 3 Red Lights and the Console started smoking...."
"Holy S....!?"
Microsoft: "No, we aren't THAT mean"
Well either way, this is a good chance for me to finally get a 360.
Yeah, Console wars can go on, I'm Getting an Xbox 360 Elite for $299!
Why $299 when you can get it at $199 when the console wars is over and they move on to the XBoot 720 ?
Remember. This is how all tsunderes act like.
「べ、別にPS3のためにやったんじゃないからねっ!!勘違いしないでよっ!!」
Haha tsundere
IYAAN~~ MOE~ MOE~~~
MOE MOE KY~UN !!!
I want a K-on! game.
Theyre already working on one for what i heard on 4chan, some sort of guitar hero-like game, but then again 4channers are on crack so...
you start to believe 4chan?
poor Philo..... :o
i want an awesome strike-witches game for either the PS3 or the XBOX360.
but "grabbing" the WII version wouldn´t hurt either.... if you know what i mean :-D
Rrod ftw
Nothing at all, really Microsoft?
Microsoft doesn't need to make it cheaper. they just need to make it better. stop manufacturing in mexico. leave it to the chinese.
Cirno!!!
the Chinese do make the 360.
Yeah, I love my 360 and all, but it does suck having to send it in for repairs. the other 2 we have in the house are newer models though and they haven't broke.
Microsoft is denying any sins they've comitted so far.
Lol and yet sony is dead last? Sonyfaboys might as well face the ps3 is a frail shit system in comparison to the ps2.
sins... what sins... I don't know what you're talking about... >_>
RROD 50% proc. and we have to stick around with their OS for our comps just cuz its the "ONLY" OS that can support DirectX
I'll admit to owning a ps3 and being a bit of a fanboy.... that having been said a monkey could draw the correlation between the two events. Frankly speaking if the crapbox wasn't such an unreliable system i would have plunked down the $$ for one simply because of the exclusives.
The xbox pricecut has as much "nothing to do with" the ps3 slim as the sixaxis has "nothing to do with" the wiimote unveiling.
It could be entirely true that it has nothing to do with the slim. In fact, it could be true that Sony is releasing the slim with the same motivation Microsoft currently has, that they want it out before the holiday season.
Companies have more than competition to worry about.
But haven't you learned by now? Sony does no wrong in the eyes of the industry.
that's why their games and graphics suck the d.
I would like to see the Wii win. Sure, video games are more detailed and complex and so on. The way the user interacts with the console never changes, ever. Well, the shape of the controller does.
I would love to do away with a mouse and keyboard and control my PC a different way.
Yeah, I just want the PS3 and 360 to beat the Wii. PS3 and 360 are my favorite consoles and I would lose all hope for the gaming community if the Wii ended up winning in the end.
Sexual Chocolate's reason for the wii winning is the reason i want it to fail. i hate how the wii's popularity is mostly based on the controller and how you interact with the game rather than the games themselves
if you believe that i have a iTablet to sell ya
If only I had Aaron Greenberg's poker face...
You'd put Ben Affleck to shame.
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Okay, dat's cool!
reduced price means more sales which means more red rings of death all round
everyone's happy now that they can enjoy the good old rrod experience that I've been through 3 times already.
Did I forget to say fuck microsoft?
Okay, just for good luck
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could we have a chain of "fuck microsoft" please?
FUCK MICROSOFT consoles.
I use linux to view this site.
Go fuck Microsoft!
When it comes to Microsoft and especially the Xbox, I agree with the Russians.
You use Windows to view this site.
Fuck you.!
In Russia Soviet, YOU fuck Microsoft!
MUCK FICROSOFT
fuck microHard
fuck MIRCOSKIRT!
GOOO MICROSKIRT!!!
Your dicks are Microsoft
fuck my wii
wuck my fii
Fuck Fanboys!
But seriously, being a fanboy for a console is fucking pathetic.
your spelling is as reliable as microsoft products
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GO MICRPSOFT!!!!!!
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your microsoft products are as reliable as his spelling
GO ,GO MICROSOFT!!!
In Soviet Russia, Microsoft fucks YOU!
Let's get back on target people!
FUCK MICROSCUM-er MICROSOFT!
FUKITY FUCK FUCK up Da BUTT MICROSOFT!
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