Xbox 360 to get Wii-Like Pricing?

I am sure Microsoft will put the price down of the consoles just before GTA4 gets released to entice gamers to get a 360 I mean if you can buy a 360 for £180 and be able to play GTA4 on it then result I say!

Anyhooo lets see what happens.

I wonder if we will see a GTA4 Pack?

Elite/Premium - Copy of GTA4 Lt Edition with a GTA Faceplate and Free Episodic Download Codes Printed in 400` letters across the front?

or am i just secretly wishing there?

It was bound to happen eventually wasn't it? In my opinion, the price of the 360 in comparison to other territories has always been high anyway, especially so in the UK, so MS have obviously got room to drop the price.

Add to that the fact that the 360 is starting to slow down in sales numbers (at least according to Edge magazine) and the news (guesswork really) from Sony that the PS3 is likely to catch and overtake 360 sales in the UK by "summer" and you have a surefire reason for MS to start thinking about how to inject more life in its console.

I guess the important question would be how will Nintendo and Sony react? I'm guessing that Nintendo would consider a price cut before Xmas, possibly down to £149 in September? And Sony... actually, I have no idea how much the PS3 is these days, or in what configurations you can still buy it in? But I'm betting they won't take a price cut lying down.

I can't imagine MS releasing an external Bluray drive - it surely would be a shot in the foot as the offering would look a bit lame up against the PS3 wouldn't it?

I can imagine them releasing some sort of super-sized hard drive. A 360 "Uber" bundle perhaps :-)

And an Xbox 720? Please don't Microsoft. I have all three consoles and am very happy with them. The 360 has a lot of life left it in yet and I haven't seen anything on the PS3 that truly gives MS a reason to be scared of a lack of power. 2011 isn't so bad - I might actually finish with the games I have bought by then, providing I stop buying any more until then.

Anyone else here have trouble with finding the time to play these damn games? I think I want Tim Spong's job, he gets to play games instead of working and think up funny things to write in news items at lunchtime when the majority of the posts to Spong seem to be made ;-)

You don't seriously believe that someone with a name as vanilla as 'Tim Smith' really exists you do?

Can someone please reboot me at about 15:00hrs.

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I fully agree.

I hope they don't release any more games ever again, at least until I've finished the ones I've got (i.e. all the ones I own). There needs to be some kind of international "Games Week", so that everyone in the world has time, and is encouraged, specifically to play games.

In terms of 720, firstly, I don't see what they can do with current technology that is that much better - there are already too much really crap excess effects that every game uses these days, mainly because it costs so much to make a game, and then everyone uses the same third-party engines. On the other hand, though, if they can beat it significantly, I want to see it, and I want to see it now!

I do feel a bit bad, though, for Nintendo and Microsoft at the moment - because there's not a lot more they can do that will get them noticed, except Nintendo releasing a new Zelda (better not be too long) and otherwise just cutting the prices. Excluding, obviously, things like Wii Fit and GT4, because they're things people are already expecting.

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