Xbox 360 Fanboy

With all the research and development in creating a cooler, smaller, and cheaper GPU/CPU combo I see no reason why the 360 can't hit $229 or better. While I disagree that the Wii is Gods gift to gaming, making the price lower, which opens to door to more gamers can only be good for the 360 and our community.

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I think the Wii has proven that the "mass market" everyone is trying to get to buy a system doesn't buy games. So adding more people who own a system but won't buy any more games doesn't really help Activision or any other publisher. I believer that getting more of these consumers to buy a 360 will just lower the software to hardware ratio so a $200 price point doesn't help much, but it's great for those of us that need to replace their existing system if it dies.

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Is he joking? With the way the economy is going and since we are heading into reccession the prices are going nowhere but up.

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I knew that I should have waited til 2009 to get a Xbox 360.

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I wonder what he thinks about the ipod. Obviously that product has reached the masses and all it does is play music, video, displays pictures. Which the 360 and the PS3 does and more. I paid $399 for my 360 and it is worth every penny. I get to play games, watch movies, listen to music,and stream TV from my other computer. But I guess value is in the eye of the beholder.

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Give him points for stating the obvious. The "mass market" is full of naive, cheapo idiots.

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It's one thing when the uninformed, nongamer public and media consider the xbox and ps3 "too expensive"; But someone at a game company? This is inexcusable naivety.

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Honestly, I think this comment applies more to EA that anyone else, since EA seems to sell more mass-market oriented games. Activision seems to be more catered to the FPS market, which has no problem spending $300+ on a console/graphics card.

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I really don't think the masses will care much about the xbox 360 or ps3 in two years. By then, we will all be hearing about the next big thing in gaming. By 2009 we will be hearing what Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony will have in store for their next gaming cosole. Do only thing I hope is that I will be able to reuse all my gaming accessories and my 120 GB hard drive with the next console.

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So what else will Sony have to take out of the PS3 to reach $199?

I kid, I kid! Or do I?

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What a dumbass, comparing the 360 and the PS3 to the Wii.

Yeah, 2 next-gen consoles should be following an exampleset by a last gen console with fancy controllers..

*golf clap*

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Yeah! Maybe if they take out, you know, the gameplaying capabilities. There is, after all, one without a hard-drive, so maybe, DVD fans! Maybe!

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I bought a 360 premium system last year at Microcenter for $199.00 since they gave me $200 in rebates.

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So the CEO of a game company wants consoles to be cheaper so he can sell more games. Shocking.

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Funny how he states that the price of the 360 and the PS3 should be $200 to gain the appeal of the mass market when he is selling a game (GH III) for $109 for the PS3 and 360... half the price of what he thinks the consoles should sell for. Does he really think that the development cost and manufacturing cost of a 360/PS3 is really only twice what it is for GH III? As much as I like GH, I would much rather pay money for a system that can play a multiple great games than a good game with a fake guitar.

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Hmmm, I wonder if they'll keep saying the ps3, and 360 are next gen in 2009 when there probably going to announce another "next gen" console. Honestly The 360 has been out for about 2 years, and is still called next gen. When the ps2 came out, I really don't remember anything like that:/

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I figure within 2 years they'll have gotten the manufacturing process down below 65nm, and be using it on both CPU and GPU. Then, they can shrink the heat sinks on both, shrink the power supply, and make a 360 (or PS3) "slim", like they did with the PS2. They'll have long recouped their R&D costs on the original console, and since the hardware functionality will remain the same, they won't spend much on the redesign, while their costs per unit will plummet. I don't think a Christmas-2009 $200 360 *or* PS3 are out of the question.

Maybe they'll take out something less popular, like the modular hard drive. Even now, wholesale on smaller SATA 2.5" drive runs in the very low double-digits; in 2 years, they'll be able to scrape the bottom of the barrel and pay somebody 20 bucks a pop to take "tiny" ~40-60 gig drives off their hands, which is more than enough for the Wii crowd. The dashboard will benefit from another 2 years of development -- maybe it will support Netflix "watch it now" or whatever comes after YouTube or something similarly popular.

Everybody's saying that the "next next gen" will come in 2010-2012, but I don't see why adaptation is going to be any faster for that generation than it has been for the current one -- look at how the PS2 is still selling. It doesn't make sense for them to be selling the current 360 design -- big, power-hungry, a teensy bit over-engineered (though not nearly as much so as the PS3!) -- two years from now. There's *got* to be an Xbox 360.2 on the way. Even Microsoft might not know it yet, but mark my words, we'll see it.

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@Jroc I believe you are totally wrong... not about a recession because I am DEFINATELY sure we are heading into the worst recession in world history. But that these types of items are deflationary... when you have to choose between staying warm and eating and games what do you think most sane people would choose... within 2 years you wont be able to give these things away...

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