Innes
12-03-2007, 09:30 PM
http://www.xboxic.com/news/2565
German site Xbox-Archiv, known from before to have some good sources inside MS and be quite reliable on rumormongering, posted an article today on a bunch of things that should please most Xbox fanboys. First up, they investigated a bit on why German megastores MediaMarkt and Saturn are all of a sudden selling the Xbox 360 Premium pack at 299 euro. While wholesale price is still at around 350 euro, the included games can also be sold separately. Combined with gross purchase discounts awarded for stocking lots of Xbox 360 games besides the consoles, the total wholesale price easily drops below 300, resulting in many retailers now being able to offer the Premium pack at 299 euro and still make a modest profit.
So where does that leave the 299 euro Tard Pack, also sold under the name of Core pack? Retailers that were contacted suggested that their inside information states that the HD-less crap edition is indeed end-of-life, and will only be around for a few more months until permanent cancellation. Although noone will be really regretting Microsoft finally burying the rather unfortunate Core SKU, it does leave a lot of people out there in the cold without harddisks, and it eliminates the element of choice that people had when there were 2 SKUs to choose from.
very interesting. the story on the link at the top continues on stating a may release for the xbox with HDMI port.
German site Xbox-Archiv, known from before to have some good sources inside MS and be quite reliable on rumormongering, posted an article today on a bunch of things that should please most Xbox fanboys. First up, they investigated a bit on why German megastores MediaMarkt and Saturn are all of a sudden selling the Xbox 360 Premium pack at 299 euro. While wholesale price is still at around 350 euro, the included games can also be sold separately. Combined with gross purchase discounts awarded for stocking lots of Xbox 360 games besides the consoles, the total wholesale price easily drops below 300, resulting in many retailers now being able to offer the Premium pack at 299 euro and still make a modest profit.
So where does that leave the 299 euro Tard Pack, also sold under the name of Core pack? Retailers that were contacted suggested that their inside information states that the HD-less crap edition is indeed end-of-life, and will only be around for a few more months until permanent cancellation. Although noone will be really regretting Microsoft finally burying the rather unfortunate Core SKU, it does leave a lot of people out there in the cold without harddisks, and it eliminates the element of choice that people had when there were 2 SKUs to choose from.
very interesting. the story on the link at the top continues on stating a may release for the xbox with HDMI port.