X-Box to drop in price
 

From BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3579959.stm



Mr Mephisto

According to ign, that drop occurs tomorrow. Not too shabby.

I may just buy one.

Then again, it's an xbox.

what's that supposed to mean? being ignorant towards a console is the same as being ignorant to other people's opinions :)

I'm sure a whole super-slew of members here will tell you an xbox is worth the money. including me.

Xbox is definitely worth the investment, and now that its falling again, it's an even worthier recipient of funds. I'm just not gonna get one because I know I can mooch off my friends. :)

I heard that they might remove the hard drive in favor of using a memory chip. Could anyon confirm or diny this?

Well that sucks, i bought mine the first day it came out. It was 300 dollars. Great......

I used to be all "I like PS2 better than Xbox" but after buying an Xbox I haven't looked back, the system is absolutely brilliant, I can't believe I took so long to buy one.

False, however the next X-Box may do this.

I may get a second one to put in the kids room....or mine :D

WHen I buy an xbox, I almost have to buy a new hard drive, and a dvd drive and a mod chip. . .so I'm trying to use self dicipline to keep myself away from best buy.

I was the same way up until about a year ago. Except I didn't buy one. Someone I knew owed me about $120 for some product of mine they lost. In lew of payment I took their XBox, which included every Monster Cable connection known to man and 25 or so games.

I had a 120gig HD I had recently acquired so I modded the box, backed up the games I wanted, then took the stash to EBgames for a nice $300 credit. A year later and I've not turned on my PS2 since. It's a great console.

Good God, an xbox, monster cables and 25 games for $120? and they didn't stop you??

well it ended up being a "take anything you want/ anything i want??/ yeah anything" type of situation. i grabbed a box, put the XBox in it, went for the games, he didn't seem opposed to i threw those in the box as well. when i asked him where the hookup cables were he went and got a bag of cables and handed them over to me.

a lil over the top for $120....maybe, but the kid's been a huge pain in my ass for awhile now, guess he figured it was about time he paid back...

I keep hearing a lot of unfounded rumors that neXt will use flash memory instead of an hdd. Would help cut down on piracy as well as save overall costs, as the space isn't really necessary, but definitely nice to have. Personally, although I respect the XBox and love some of the exclusives for it (especially Halo, which I think is much better on the Box as opposed to PC), I'm going to wait for the next price drop after this one coming up soon. Maybe the next drop will include a Halo bundle.

Personally, I love my X-Box and at a price like that you should get one to love too.

I sure hope they don't go to "memory cards." If they do, they could at least make it big enough so you don't have to buy 87 of them to swap out when you change games. The one thing that annoys the piss out of me is having to keep track of all the GC and PS2 memory cards lying around.

Every system needs integrated storage with the option of removable memory cards, not the other way round.

I heard from a reliable source that the next Xbox is going to do away with the internal HDD. In it's place will be a set amount of storage on a MS server. ie. You buy live and get 25 MB of storage online, accessable w/ your Gamertag and password. They hope this will get rid of of the "cheats" proliferated by Action Replay. However, I don't see how this will work as not everyone has Live, but they may want to take game saves to a buddy's house.
Oh yeah, a pending release that starts with H and ends with 2 is progressing nicely. Still early to mid fall if y'all aren't bored waiting.

Did you happen to be weilding a shotgun that was pointed at this man daughter? LOL, crazy!

the rumors I've heard are not that the neXt will have a memory card, but internal flash memory of several hundred MB.

but this is just random talk from other forums, so noone really knows for sure.

no but i was holding a piece of 2X4 i picked up in his apt like a club...:hmm:

i don't know anyone who thinks it would be good to get rid of the hard drive, if everyone goes to the forums and states there opinion, then eventually they might listen. http://forums.xbox.com/

the xboxes in nz have had the limited edition green with halo and a lower than normal price for a while. i heard that microsoft was thinking about doing this and i was like, they have been for about a month.

interesting.

but 120 for xbox and 25 games, omg dude,

The Elite Force Halo X-box's are now $339 in NZ (that's about $180 USD and includes a Green Box, Green Cont S and Halo)

yeah...but it's green. have you seen those things? I mean, I'm not some kind of crazy metrosexual obsessed with how every single thing in my room fits color- wise, but the green box is pretty damn ugly. no offense to any who like it or own it.

Agreed, but those white ones are damn sexy.

u gota love price drops, cheers to all xbox owners and future owners

Now, before you pounce on me and beat me to death with your massive 50lb X-Boxes, hear me out.

Never been a fan myself, and never intend to buy one. Yes I've played on one several times (A friend has one) and hated every second of it. Controllers felt horribly akward and ungainly (They had several non-stock controllers that seemed nice, but I was wrong) and the games I played weren't very exceptional. Halo was boring as hell, Crimson skies was alright, but nothing special, Mech Warrior was boring and a few others who's names I cant remember weren't very inspiring either. Personally, I didn't see anything that it could do that my PC couldn't do better and I see no reason to buy one.

HOWEVER, I do think its good for the price war. Anything that drops price in gaming markets makes me happy. That and it might get me a cheap PS2 from someone who buys an X-box.

hey, I respect your opinion, even though I happen to think Halo is one of the best FPSs to date. Especially with a good sound system and a large screen.

Personally, the Box is my least favorite console (although I love Halo, KOTOR (even though I originally beat it on pc - looking forward to playing the sequel on the box), NG, and I'm looking forward to Halo 2), so it's the last one I'm going to buy. I already own a Cube, GBA, and Ps2. My PC is moderately capable but when I transfer to a real university (community college at the moment) I'm getting a new Alienware. Anyway, I just say get em all, and you can get the best of 4 worlds.

alot of pc gamers tend to feel that way, but if your a console man, like myself, then it is the best out there. smoother, faster and can hold music on the hard drive. I really that i can play MY music with my games, or just listen to it when i am going to bed .

Well looks like with the recent price drop I will have to go out and get one finally. Any MUST have games current xbox owners would recommend?

Splinter 1 and 2
Project Gotham Racing 2
James Bond: Everything or Nothing
Halo
Otogi

Just off the top of my head, there's a great selection of unique and amazing games on the Box.

yea I saw the x box in a catalog for some store walmart maybe it was $149.99 just last year I went to canada to try and buy it since the difference in american money, but it wasent different it was still like 300, So i almost bought it for my boy firend for christmass but i changed my minde so now lol i can get it for him!!
I want ps3 when ever that comes out or if they make one lol.

I bought my Xbox in January for $170... do I regret not waiting? Hell no... I got WAYY more than $20 worth of playtime since January :) My Xbox kept me (relatively) sane during finals week :)


Other games I'd recommend:
Ninja Gaiden - MUST HAVE! Probably the best action game in a long, long time.
Top Spin - it's a tennis game, but it's oh-so-fun.
Need for Speed Underground - damn good racing game, I like it better than Project Gothem Racing 2.
DOA Beach Volleyball - bouncy bouncy bouncy :)

There's probably more that I can't think of at the moment.

Reading this thread has gotten me really really jonsed to play xbox right about now. I left mine at home when I moved here to go to school, and haven't played in 8 months.

From what I'm told by my brother though, he managed to "break" it while i was gone. I have no idea how he would do that, but I'll check out the situation when I go home next month.

I would love to be playing right now though.

I paid 300 CAD for mine, and I didn't mind spending it at all. The cheaper the better though (especially if i end up replacing it if it is in fact dead)

Halo
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Project Gotham Racing 2
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition
Grand Theft Auto: Double Pack
SSX3
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War
Rainbow Six 3
MechAssault
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Soul Calibur II
Tony Hawk's Underground
Beyond Good & Evil
Deus Ex: Invisible War
GUNVALKYRIE (hard as HELL)
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
SSX Tricky
True Crime: Streets of L.A.
Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions
Colin McRae Rally 3
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
Max Payne
Midnight Club II
Need for Speed Underground
Project Gotham Racing
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
NASCAR Thunder 2004
Freedom Fighters
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
Steel Battalion
Ninja Gaiden
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
MX Unleashed
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Hunter: The Reckoning
MTX: Mototrax
Dynasty Warriors 4
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
Phantasy Star Online Episodes I & II
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
The Suffering
Blood Wake
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc
Gladius
Otogi: Myth of Demons
Red Faction 2
Armed & Dangerous
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
Ninja Gaiden
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

-Lasereth

I'd like to buy one just to play the Buffy games & Baldur's Gate...but...$150? I can buy much cooler things for that. I'm sure it'll drop even more when the next console comes out...

I'm hopelessly old-fashioned when it comes to video games, though. I still get a kick out of playing Atari & Apple \\e games.

Thanks for the list of Must have games. Picked up the system today along with Mechassualt and Ninja Gaiden

Good job! :)

I intend on getting one soon...but I may wait for another price drop. Anyone have any idea if they're planning for another drop this summer?

I seriously doubt it. Not 'til Christmas (if then).

Too bad I just bought my X-box for the old price not 2 weeks ago =(