Re: XBox 360 - Official Thread
The way I see it though is that alot of consumers have more than one current gen console. The XB360 will only be my 3rd Launch buy, the others being the DC and the GC, both because of there sub 200 Launch Price. I picked up a PS2 when the PES series transferred, which was also around the time that GTA III came out, and that was for around 250 sheets with the game and memory card I think.
Price has a HUGE bearing on whether a person will go for it or not, but I have no doubt the PS3 will sell millions of machines, Japan alone will gobble it up just because it's a Japanese Company and it's a new bit of kit, no matter what they sell it at, and I can see EARLY ADOPTERS around the world paying any price for it, what MS is trying to achieve is to have a Next Gen machine at an attractive price to people who might just 'give it a try'.
Therefore MS want to get a head start, but a Worldwide Release is very very daunting, and there will be console shortages, the headstart that MS will have could be greatly diminished if MS cant get the consoles on the shop shelves and leaving consumers 'hunting' them down. I do agree I think the difference in units sold will be greatly reduced, but I still think alot of that will depend on this first year that the XB360 will get over the PS3, although it could be longer.
This all depends on how fast Sony get there console out though, is there a set release for the UK yet?
