Microsoft slashes price of Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on

[Maikeru]

News courtesy of BetaNews

Microsoft continues to play hardball in the next-generation DVD format wars, this time slashing the price of its add-on HD DVD player for Xbox 360 by 30 percent.

The price cut does not seem to be effective for all retailers: as of Wednesday morning it was only showing the new $129 price at Toys-R-Us and Amazon.com. In any event, the move shows that the Redmond company is nowhere near ready to give up on HD DVD.

Through Black Friday, approximately 2.7 million Blu-ray players have been sold, including PlayStation 3 consoles. On the other hand, about 750,000 HD DVD players have made it into consumers' hands, for the most part set-top boxes.

Microsoft last cut the price of its HD DVD add-on from $199 to $179 as prices for the format's players first began to fall. This latest cut is likely in response to continuing price cuts, which are reflecting rapidly reduced manufacturing costs.

With the add-on, buyers will receive a media remote. In addition, King Kong is included, and the player is eligible for the currently running five free HD DVD promotion from Toshiba.

Thoughts?

I think it's a great step in the right direction, but I don't think it's enough to persuade people to suddenly hop on the HD DVD bandwagon.

 

[you use a 286]

XBOX awesome

 

[jtickner1]

Most people that have a 360 use the Blu-Ray argument against people that have a PS3 saying that it makes it so expensive and it's so unnecessary, yet i bet half the people that say that are going to go buy one of these, and it can only read HD DVD Video, not game discs, so ahhhhhhhhhhahaha when all your games are limited by size in the near future.

 

[Blind Dragon]

Through Black Friday, approximately 2.7 million Blu-ray players have been sold, including PlayStation 3 consoles. On the other hand, about 750,000 HD DVD players have made it into consumers' hands, for the most part set-top boxes.

That says a lot.

Microsoft should just start giving them out, cause they know like everyone else that its not the future