Xbox 360 games pricing announced

Not bad...

Saw the incredible corruption adverts and their games ranged from R300 -R599, Bastards.
 
Toxin said:
Everyone needs to forgive me when I say....... WTF!!!!!! :mad:

That has got to be a typo. BT Games is selling theirs for R330!! :eek:
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Yeah, that's why I posted it. The lube never made any comment on the pricing, so I'm wondering if it's right or he just never saw the price? lol
 
Toxin said:
ROFL!!! :D Dude, it's the_lobe not the_lube. :p

Anyway, Incredible Corruption will never see me again. :sick: On printers and Laptops maybe, but the rest of their stuff is just ridiculously priced. :eek:
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Lol whoops! :P
 
consumer retail prices for the games will range from R199 for classic gaming titles, with a R499 ceiling price for triple A collectors editions
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This is excellent :D

The above prices fall nicely into my investigations of XBox 360 games and IMO is a really smart move on Microsoft's part. They're doing to Sony what AMD's done to Intel ... provide great products at prices the target market can afford. Gamers generally don't have deep pockets and the price of the Consoles + affordable games is sure to attract a lot of attention away from the more expensive PS3 due next March. A couple of my friends are sceptical - they want Grand Turismo and are waiting for the official launch of the PS3. I intend to show them PGR 3 on my XBox as soon as I get one and I'm pretty sure they'll be converted. Good prices, great games = lots of sales. Might just a little time to convince the disbelievers ;)

If Sony had any sense, they'd attract more sales by dropping prices (and not just in their home market, but the rest of the world as well). I find it completely mind-boggling that PSP games (not the Classic* series) still retail between R400 - R500. Even the UMD movies cost more than standard DVD's which is pathetic when you consider the size of the screen is limited, the sound quality is less and unless you're really desperate for the 'mobility' is not worth all the hype.

I just hope that Vista is released in South Africa with the same 'affordability' mindset next year :D
 
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Microsoft Xbox 360 will have more than 50 game titles readily available when it launches on September 30.
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Was just wondering where one could view this list of 50+ game titles. So far, every retailer's website I've looked at have the same 5 to 10-odd game titles. Others are 'scheduled' for later release like Nov 2006 / Dec 2006, but I'd be very interested in seeing all 50+ games currently available as from Sat 30 September 2006. I just hope the suppliers haven't decided to create an artificial vacuum of game titles like Telkom has with International Bandwidth. That would suck big time and draw lots of negative critism.

On the one hand, it's understandable that Retailers won't want to over invest in a new console until the demand growth warrants it. Thus they'll need to decide which titles to stock and hope they've correctly chosen 'popular' titles that will sell well. The drawback is that unless the Retailer's Marketing Dept. is worth their salt, they could stock less popular titles not make many sales decide it's not financially viable to stock lots of titles. This would also enable those Retailers that do stock more to be able to charge higher prices as the consumer won't simply be able to find the same titles elsewhere.

Will be interesting to see how this is going to play out.
 
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squirrel said:
Yeah, that's why I posted it. The lube never made any comment on the pricing, so I'm wondering if it's right or he just never saw the price? lol
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I just saw the picture ^.^

And as for the "lube" thing, well done squirrel, did you think that one up all by yourself? :p

The game prices do look really good though. Makes me think twice about getting a 360.
 
LifelongGamer said:
If Sony had any sense, they'd attract more sales by dropping prices (and not just in their home market, but the rest of the world as well). I find it completely mind-boggling that PSP games (not the Classic* series) still retail between R400 - R500
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I'd assume they were planning to surf in on the wave of popularity of the Playstation 2. That plan may have had more success if they'd actually released it sooner.

They may also be assuming that the PSP and its games can be sold on technical merits alone.

LifelongGamer said:
Good prices, great games = lots of sales. Might just a little time to convince the disbelievers ;)
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Convert or die unbelievers! :)

I'm hoping we'll see lots of Xbox games at rental outlets too. I think that could have a major influence on the purchase decisions of families, with children seeming to manage to go through games faster than oxygen.
 
I have dealership with a distributor that sells pc, psp, ps2 and xbox360 games. I haven't really looked into selling them because of the minimum order requirement... but if anyone is looking for anything, pm me.

My income is mainly generated by labour, so I'm not too concerned about the markup on the games, but as I said I do have a minimum order to maintain.
 
Well, for what it's worth... I went to the 'Midnight Launch' for the XBox 360 at Cresta after dinner and movies on Friday night.

Incredible Connection was already selling units at around 23h00. Look and Listen (despite having posters advertising that you could 'Try the XBox from 21h00 until Midnight' and there'd be 'Spot prizes and competitions') decided to rather close the store at 22h45 and bicker about customers still milling about.

It made no difference though, even CNA didn't have much of 'Launch Specials' aside from free juice and snacks.

One common theme that I noticed was that the 'cheap' game titles were no where to be seen. Lowest priced titles was from R399 to R599 at al 3 stores. Needless to say, I left somewhat disappointed.

Rage was great fun though. Excellent event. I could've done without the 'free' entrance pack of June/July NAG, Custom PC and SA Computer magazines (I already have those :p )

Anyway, the XBox game titles were the same and similarly priced to what I saw at Cresta the night before. Going to BT Gams inside Northgate, I asked a salesperson about stock of Kameo which I've previously priced at R299. He went to the back and returned a few minutes later informing me they did not yet receive stock. Amazingly, I was looking at their pc headsets with a friend near the tills and saw some game boxes stacked behind a pillar. Guess what I found in the pile? KAMEO priced at R299!

The only explanation for the lack of the cheaper (and the higher than MS announced prices) is that retailers want to maximise sales with the launch of the new console. It stands to reason that anyone buying the xBox will want to buy a game or two and the lack of cheaper games forces customers to have to spend more. If this is the case, it's sneaky and underhanded. My hands-on investigation thus far is that the XBox 360 really looks great but most stores are upping their markup over Microsoft SA's Price Statement ... this will have some negative affect on sales, even though the temptation to buy the new console is compelling :cool:
 
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