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…
Via Ore-teki.
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 -.-
how long does a xbox 360 typically last before the RROD?
Depends on whether or not your an idiot and leave it on all the time. RROD = Overheating.
Wo what, you need multiple consoles just to play 12h a day?
You’ll never know….
“Xbox Originals”….
People remember the original Xbox! LOLWUT
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!!!