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Hi, I work at best buy (473) and from what I know we are doing away with the core.. it never sold anyway, and IMPO, it's a waste of a bundle.. make the premium the new core and the elite the new premium, ofcoruse.
if they would scrap the XBox 360 altogether then Best Buy would finally earn the name Best Buy
lol youre so dumb quixand, no one is going to buy a ps3. my best buy has had like 7 of them in a stack since last march. not a single one has sold, and you can see dust with finger marks on them. They dont even turn on the displays at places like walmart or ebgames. face it, ps3 is a flop.
Poor little squirrel whats wrong you lost your nut in the road.
Face it Xbox core is going bye bye. I know a friend at Best buy and he told me yesterday that the core really sucks compared to the premium and that getting rid of it would help. But i asked what about the rest of the systems. He said well we will have them but don't expect them to sell due to its high defected rate i was laughing.
The fact is they are getting rid of it now that PS3 is getting good games and $100 oh and by the way Sony actually lost money but gain profit off there system what about yours.
idiot. learn some simple facts. ps3 is selling just as well in its seventh month as xbox 360 was in its seventh month. want proof? http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php there you go. 7 months of xbox 360 + 3.918 million 7 months for ps3 + 3.892 million. as you can see sales are very close, and comparable. learn something before posting please.
actually stealth they didnt make a profit off the ps3, it was the whole company that made the profit due to sales of cameras and their other stuff
Wow big deal Sony have dropped 2 of their PS3 systems in the first year so what, get a life you idiots
I've been searching for weeks in every local (and not so local) Wal-Mart, Target, and GameStop. None of them have a SINGLE core model. ALL of them have plenty of Premiums and Elites... (and I don't live in some rural place, I live in Metro-Atlanta. Ever heard of Bankhead?) This leads me to believe that they are, in-fact, quietly letting the core die out before they announce it's stopping production for core and you gotta pay $400 for a 360 now.
This article is only proof to what I've been speculating for weeks...
I have a core, and it works great. I've had it since Feb. 2006. I had to buy her because of the limited supply when they first came out. I love my 360, we've been through the good and bad. Don't hate on the core, its just another 360.
Being a Premium owner soon to be getting an Elite I say Get Rid of the core asap, The Elite will be under £300 by Christmas in Europe(and shops will proberly compete with bundled game etc) and the premium is set to be priced to compete with the Wii, MS have made a very wise move with the 3 year free warranty(3 years and you never have to worry if your system fails Im sure the the other console manufactures will have to follow) and with huge releases due any day and up to Christmas MS have done what is needed.
Want to see what the 360 can do graphically, forget Forza or PS3 Grand tourismo etc take a look at Moto GP 07 on extreme mode the graphics are incredible.
Lets not forget Sony PS3 have already dropped 2 of their systems in the first year....
The Core sucks anyway, spending an extra 100 bucks for a wireless controller and a hard drive is worth it.
Even if its being done in secrecy for now. If they do drop the consoles price [279 core, 349 premium, 449 elite] on the 8th like all the ads are claiming, then I can see this as a way to move core's that are still in circulation (buy your kid a Wii thats full of crap 5 year old games, or spend 30 bucks more to get a console that has a ton of games for all ages). Then come next year when MS is sold out of core units, they will announce another price drop and a new SKU [premium 300, elite 400, new SKU 500].
The new SKU will likely have a built in HD-DVD drive as its main selling point and to 1UP Sony. MS has always been opened to such a unit, they have just been waiting for the right time. They can't deny the success of Sony's console helping in Blu-ray sales, either.
There are more standalone HD-DVD players than Blu-ray players (not including the PS3) yet Blu-ray is outselling HD-DVD 5:1? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the extra sales are coming from the 4 million PS3 users (you know at least 1 Blu-ray movie was bought by each PS3 owner).
Either that or it could be the IPTV 360 unit that MS/DirectTV will be offering as their main unit for the new service. Guess we will have to wait and see.
I dont want a blu ray player or hddvd drive, I just want the downloadable HD films that are coming in November to europe on the 360 Elite, who will care about Blu ray or hddvd drives when you can download hd films cheaper than you can hire them for and you dont even have to go down to the rental shop to get them.
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