EA has announced that their card-based real time strategy game BattleForge is getting a new “competitive pricing strategy”, with the retail price dropping to $US29.99.
An article in the Wall Street Journal today considers the state of Sony’s PlayStation 3 in the video game market, highlighting the fact that the console’s holiday sales had dropped considerably over last year’s.
Well, that seems to have done the trick. Following last week’s Xbox 360 price cut in the US, the console has seen a big spike in sales.
Some retailers are reportedly showing 100% increases in sales of all Xbox models with up to six times more sales between Friday September 5th – Sunday 7th compared to the previous weekend.
Granted, these are Microsoft’s figures, so they may have been given a bit of a spit and polish — still, Sony & Nintendo must be eying the holiday end of the calendar and doing a bit of chin stroking right about now.
Full text of corporate gloating after the jump…
Bad luck, old chap. Microsoft is refusing to pass on the Xbox 360 price cut to the UK market.
As if the British economy wasn’t looking dark enough – now we face another Christmas of not-that-cheap Xboxes.
“Pricing is handled on a region-by-region basis”, said a killjoy Microsoft spokesperson, “We do not have a price drop in this region to announce”.
An Xbox Arcade will set you back £159.99 ($US 281.35) in the UK, while an Elite can be obtained on the open market in exchange for a kidney or other major organ.
Microsoft says no Xbox 360 “price drop” in the UK [Pocket Lint]
Yesterday’s big announcement at the Tokyo Xbox Media Briefing 2008 was across the board Xbox 360 console price cuts. But that news was leaked early! Whoops. Microsoft was left with announcing, hrm, what exactly was Microsoft left with? After the event, we tracked down Xbox Japan honcho Takashi Sensui:
Right now, there aren’t many/any 360s in Japan. Place went bananas for Tales of Vesperia, they’re practically sold out, and won’t be getting any more in for a while. When they do come back in, there’ll be a slight change: they’ll be cheaper. A lot cheaper. Microsoft Japan have announced that – as was rumoured last week when Bic Camera accidentally jumped the gun – the 360′s due for some price cuts. The Arcade 360 will have its price slashed by ¥8,000 to ¥19,800 ($214), which makes it significantly cheaper than the ¥25,000 Wii. The Pro and Elite will also be reduced, by ¥5,000 (from ¥34,800 to ¥29,800/$325) and ¥8,000 (from ¥47,800 to ¥39,800/$434) respectively.
