Xbox 360 price cut planned for Nov 1

ITANI | October 22, 2007 | News | XBOX 360

The Xbox 360 is getting a official price cut in Japan. Following the announcement that Sony made earlier this month, Microsoft will cut the 360's price by 13 percent, making the consoles price at a very low £149. In Japanese currency that is 34,800 yen. This official price cut will take place on November 1st, while Sony's Playstation 3's price cut in Japan will take place on the 11th November.

According to Famitsu's publisher Enterbain, the following statistics show how many units each console has sold in it's first half of 2007. Xbox 360 has sold a very low 122,565 units, while the Playstation 3 has sold 503,334 and last but not least the Wii has sold 1.78 million.

Microsoft has revealed it will cut the price of Xbox 360 by 13 percent in Japan to 34,800 yen (£149) from Nov 1.

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Miamifan99 | October 22, 2007

Wow, seems like a big price change. You would think that the Xbox would be doing great at it's original price.
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Incidnia | October 22, 2007

Well seeing as Japs like to use Jap made stuff they never really gave Microsoft much of a chance, being an American company. They do ship over there, but it's very unpopular.
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  Raziel_326 | October 22, 2007
  
  It's not so much that it's an American product (though that is part of the reason) it's also due to the fact that the majority 360's games really don't interest them much.
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    Tenken | October 23, 2007
    
    There's a number of factors. It's not that Japan isn't open to our games, it's just they aren't the right type. It's not that they hate our machines, it's just they don't offer the right software and are generally too large. Microsoft isn't unpopular, just shy and bashful.
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Xegaldis | October 22, 2007

I agree. It's quite suprising, seems like a good price change to me, imo.
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Final Blade | October 23, 2007

Can't say this surprises me, i mean MS always counters Sony's move. Unfortunately i can't see the price cut for MS to work that great in Japan.
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Donnelly | October 23, 2007

The Japanese have never been big fans of the XBox, or the 360, so I can't see this making that much of a difference.

Wish I could've paid £149 for my 360.
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  Stewie Rox10 | October 23, 2007
  
  Of course it has to be in Japan. I don't even have a 360 and I kind of want one but not really with it's price. If it was only changed to $149 here in the u.s.a...
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    Final Blade | October 24, 2007
    
    Things don't work like that at least not that quick, i bet its the same deal for the PS3 for you.
    
    My suggestion is to save your money.
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    Slumpy monkey | October 24, 2007
    
    its £149 that would be about $300.....
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Salocin | October 25, 2007

i cant wait for the price cut to come to America, then i might just have a chace of getting a Xbox 360 finally. If only...If only...
quote finalblade98
Can't say this surprises me, i mean MS always counters Sony's move
well then Sony needs to have another price break
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  Ekou | October 25, 2007
  
  It's as low as it needs to be. Would people like for it to be lower? Yeah. Just doesn't need to happen. At this point in time, the current price is relatively perfect. It's not too terribly high, and it's two months until Christmas. Within the time frame from November until mid-December, sales increase for a lot of products.
  
  Coupled with that, Early-Mid '08 is a big time for Sony in terms of their software. MGS4 anyone? Enough to make me convert, almost.