NEWS - Wednesday, October 17, 2001
UK Xbox Price Tag Announced
Sandy Duncan, Vice President of Xbox Europe, has announced last night that the Xbox console from Microsoft will be out March 14, 2002.It’s suggested retail price will be 479 Euro dollars (2142 Francs). No details on what will be sold with the unit has been clarified. 1,5 million consoles should be avaiable between the months of March and July 2002.
The Xbox will cost in Europe 1150 Francs more than the Playstation 2 that has been released for more than a year at 1999 Francs and double the cost of a Nintendo GameCube (about 1500 Francs actually in Japan).
This is a rough translation from the French web site listed above.
Source: http://www.overgame.com/
