4 edits | Price in story is in pounds, and NOT dollars That price quoted in the story is for £199.99, not dollars.
»www.computerandvideogames.com/ar···d=149898
Microsoft has knocked ten quid off the price of the Xbox 360 Core System in the UK....
stating the price of the console as "from £199.99 RRP".
£199.99 equals $387.45 at current exchange rates.
The core system is currently selling at $299.95 in US today. So the US is already selling the core system for less than what the UK price is after the price drop. »froogle.google.com/froogle?q=xbo···+Froogle
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 MysticGogetaThe Robot DevilPremium
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League City, TX | "That $100 price cut would make the bare bones Xbox 360 $199 and the fully loaded 360 $299"
Wrong there is no mention ANYWHERE about the UK or pounds.
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| said by MysticGogeta:"That $100 price cut would make the bare bones Xbox 360 $199 and the fully loaded 360 $299" Wrong there is no mention ANYWHERE about the UK or pounds. Read the links in the story. The BBR news item got it wrong.
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Davenport, FL | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Still, Microsoft more or less translated the price directly to £ due to covering the cost of import duties and stuff to the country.
So more or less... if they're going to start seeing Xbox 360 (core)s for £199.99 in the UK, that is going to mean that we'll be seeing them for $199.99 sooner or later.
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1 edit | 'So more or less... if they're going to start seeing Xbox 360 (core)s for £199.99 in the UK, that is going to mean that we'll be seeing them for $199.99 sooner or later.'
Does not follow. The dollar and the pound are not on par with each other. If they were on sale here for 200$ and on sale in London for £200 a person could become rich overnight through the grey market. |
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I'm looking at the link to the Tech Kills article right now and it says dollars, not pounds. The computerandvideogames.com site says pounds, not dollars. Which one is correct? |
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League City, TX | reply to fAcEtIOUs
I have read it the link you quoted from did NOT mention pounds in it at all the quote I had was from the article.
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3 edits | said by scots:I'm looking at the link to the Tech Kills article right now and it says dollars, not pounds. The computerandvideogames.com site says pounds, not dollars. Which one is correct? This is the correct link about price cuts in the UK and is the current info:
»www.computerandvideogames.com/ar···d=149898
The techkills link is old link with stale news in a blog entry from 6/20/06:
»www.techkills.com/273-xbox-360-p···son.html
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Anchorage, AK | reply to bogey780
The funny thing, though, is that is exactly how it works there. They pay £14.99 for that new CD, £59.99 for that wireless router, and make £10/hour (typical starting wage I would assume). We pay $14.99 for that new CD, $59.99 for that wireless router, and make $10/hour. Of course it wouldn't be an exact conversion as such, but it's not far off.
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Davenport, FL | reply to bogey780
said by bogey780:'So more or less... if they're going to start seeing Xbox 360 (core)s for £199.99 in the UK, that is going to mean that we'll be seeing them for $199.99 sooner or later.' Does not follow. The dollar and the pound are not on par with each other. If they were on sale here for 200$ and on sale in London for £200 a person could become rich overnight through the grey market. Except for the little fact that UK still uses PAL, where we use NTSC. Even if you were to try that, you'd have a lot of pissed off people in UK to answer to because the units wouldn't work without conversion. 
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| Don't people have dual system TVs in the U.K.? Many countries in Asia like Singapore use PAL (a carryover from the colonial days), but I know that dual system TV sets are fairly common. I know quite a number of people in Singapore who have no problem viewing content encoded for NTSC. And region free DVD players are commonplace there as well. |
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Mountains | Yes. I am in the process of buying a LCD TV in Europe, and I'd say 95% of the models have a PAL/SECAM/NTSC tuner built-in.
Most even have both S-Video and SCART ports as well as RCA inputs, even my $120 30 inch CRT TV does. So I'd say that the percentage of people in Europe that couldn't connect a NTSC source would be rather minimal
I'd venture a guess that the problems might come more from the power cord that has to be changed than from the TV standards
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