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Caligari2
10-17-2001, 04:00 AM
Well, Europeans not only get consoles after Americans and Japanese does, but we also pay more. These are very bad news indeed for the Xbox and Xbox fans cause it is going to trash its development in the European continent. I have to remind you that the Playstation2 with it´s recent price drops cost about 294Euros.

At yesterdays Xbox show in Cannes, France; when Sandy Duncan (European Xbox Director) finally unveiled the Xbox price, all the journalist started to laugh at what they thought it was a joke, because the specialised press gave the Xbox a maximum price of 400 Euros (HERE AT XBOX ADDICT WE HAD A 350Euros tag).

WITH A PRICE TAG OF 479 EUROS YOU CAN NEARLY BUY A PS2 AND A GAMECUBE ALL TOGETHER.

++++++479 Euros are $432 USD+++++++++++++++

WE ARE PAYING $432 for the XBOX !!!!!!!


In other news, Me and my self is moving back to Boston,MA; cause I am starting to miss clam chowder.


This is a press release from:

http://www.eurogamer.net/news.php?id=6306

""Microsoft has finally broken its vow of silence in Europe to reveal the first concrete details of the Xbox launch on this side of the pond. The console will be released in sixteen European countries on March 14th for £299 or €479, with 1.5 million units expected to be available by the end of June. Weekly stock replacements from the Xbox assembly plant in Hungary are being promised but there is no clue as to how many consoles will actually be on store shelves for launch day. Meanwhile the games themselves are mostly expected to cost £45 / €69. All of which is (give or take a few days and a couple of euros) much as we had anticipated.

Amongst the other announcements coming out of Microsoft's X01 event in southern France this week were a handful of new games - a mission-based driving game from Activision called Wreckless, a predictable enough Xbox version of F1 2002 from Electronic Arts, and claims that Ghost Recon from UbiSoft will be an Xbox exclusive. Which is odd, because the game was running very nicely on a PC at ECTS, and the last we heard it was due for release here on the beige box in December. Maybe Microsoft have some strange definition of the word "exclusive". Finally Peter Molyneux was on site to show off another (truly) Xbox exclusive game from one of the Lionhead satellite studios, in this case BC from Intrepid Games. No, we're none the wiser either. No doubt we will soon be hearing more about this title ad nauseam though...

Sega were showing off playable versions of GunValkyrie, Sega GT 2002 and Jet Set Radio Future, but all three games were at the Tokyo Game Show last week anyway, as was Tecmo's Dead or Alive 3. Eidos had the Xbox version of Championship Manager up and running, which must really have pushed the console's graphical capabilities, while Infogrames demonstrated Transworld Surfing for the first time. UbiSoft showcased Rayman M and Batman Vengeance, but both games had already been pushed on PlayStation 2 at the ECTS trade show in London just last month. To round things off THQ gave the first European demonstration of the Xbox-exclusive Moto GP.

So that's it, for now at least. More details should start to leak out over the coming days as the lucky handful of journalists who were invited to the event recover from their hangovers and the Carl Cox DJ set that rounded the night off, and maybe one day Microsoft will even explain how the console's online gaming capabilities are going to work in Europe. For now though they are preserving their .. um .. mystique. ""

Caligari2
10-17-2001, 04:30 AM
Ghost Recon an Xbox exclusive?????????

Caligari2
10-17-2001, 05:22 AM
I am reading all the European Xbox forums and the fans are very much concerned with this price. You can already read coments from hardcore loyal Xbox fans that Microsoft has already killed Xbox in Europe. Most of them where very worried about the Xbox missing Xmas dateline, but now they are even more worried with this price which can´t compete with the PS2 or GC (you can buy both with the price of one Xbox). Microsoft´s public relations are working hard in Europe so the price is not an issue so you can read comments like this one (quoted from gamespot UK)


"With the US launch of Xbox only weeks away, Microsoft has finally confirmed the European launch details for its new console. Xbox consoles will be available from March 14th priced at a very reasonable £299. The price comes as no real surprise and, despite the fact that it will be the most expensive console in Europe at launch, the quality and quantity of the titles that are already finished and available to play here at Pierre Cardin's summer house in Cannes suggest it will be money well spent. "

Well, not to be a genius to find the discrepancies in this article "Xbox in Europe is expensive cause it is money well spent." (don´t buy this manipulation of information) 479 euros are the equivalent of $439 USD, $439 bucks very reasonable for a console Right???

Vipermmx
10-17-2001, 09:22 AM
Im confused lmao. 299E or whatever is 432USD?

I dont see why microsoft would charge more then US and Japan. Hmm.

l Maximus l
10-17-2001, 11:17 AM
If you ask me, the XBox console is under price as is! No other console, whether it be the Game Cube or the PS2 or whatever, has nearly the amount of power and innovation compared to the XBox. I believe the XBox should be rightly priced at $900 for all the capability, technology, and innovation that it offers!

But, what a sweet deal for $299! Man, Microsoft is most-likely losing a ton of money by selling these consoles for such a steal...but, of course, they certainly make it up and gain a lot of money because of the games.

Living in the Seattle area, local to Microsoft headquarters...I can tell you all first hand that Microsoft has their act together. They are the leading company in the world! No company can boast this status except for Microsoft...with all that aside, with the launch of the XBox, get ready for the latest and greatest in gaming!

Expect the XBox to be persecuted! Never in history has the most innovative product in one industry come out untainted from persecution...but, when they have been introduced to the marketplace, they take it all! The XBox is no different...just expect excellence. The XBox rules the gaming world due November 15!!

-Maximus:D

Caligari2
10-17-2001, 12:10 PM
The issue here is that you in Seattle,Wa are paying $299 for the Xbox and here in Europe we are paying $439 for the Xbox.

xboxlover
10-17-2001, 12:20 PM
Well the xbox price in the uk will be the same price as the ps2 was on release here so i think the xbox price is quite good, long live xbox i had my doubts but not anymore long live xbox

Aftershock
10-18-2001, 03:15 PM
Microsoft are just screwing us over, they COULD have sold it for around £205 which would have been the correct price after being converted from 299USD.
And the games! They should cost £35 instead of £45, these prices are ridiculus.
First we put up with having to wait 5 months for the Xbox and then we get ****ed over with the stupid pricing that those idiots at Microsoft are charging!
After speaking with a few people who a week ago were dead set in buying an Xbox, their views have been radically changed by all of this - why should we pay almost £100 more for a console than we have to?!
Just because we live in a different country doesn't mean Microsoft have the right to charge more.

DOOM
10-18-2001, 04:40 PM
Um Try Going To a Store, Buying A GeForce 3 1/2(Not Available Yet), A HD, A NFORCE MoBo, A DVD Player, A 733 cpu, Etc, Etc, & Youll be Spending A Hell Of a Lot More Dude...:cool:

Aaron
10-18-2001, 04:53 PM
you mean a NV2A not a GF3 1/2

DOOM
10-18-2001, 04:55 PM
A NV2A Is a GF3 1/2.....
A Regular GF3 Is a NV20,
Duh!:D

Funionz, Why The Name change?

Aaron
10-18-2001, 05:04 PM
The NV2A is much more powerful than the GF3 so i wouldnt consider it a 1/2. Id consider it more of a GeForce 5


Everyone keeps asking me the same question................

Rancey
10-19-2001, 06:38 AM
I better not pay anymore than $700AUD (~$350US)

rivalius13
10-19-2001, 03:09 PM
ill have about €600 at launch. plus birthday peresents:)