Xbox 360 Price Cut Increases Sales by 40%

If you are an Xbox 360 fan or a gaming fan for that matter, you will have noticed that there have been plenty of prices cuts lately and makes it the best value for money next-generation games console on the market. If you shop around you can find a great deal. Xbox have recently claimed that these price cuts have created a huge wave of new customers, an increase of around 40% to be precise. There have been around 18 million sales worldwide since its launch in 2005 according to Microsoft. If these figures are to be believed, it seems these price cuts are helping the Xbox 360 compete with the Playstation 3.

The Xbox 360 was launched in 2005 under a huge crest of excitement with people queuing around the streets to get their hands on one on the launch day. Microsoft were heavily criticised in the Xbox 360’s early days, a huge amount of people suffered the dreaded ‘ring of death’, a major technical fault in the console’s hardware which shut the system down completely, but it seems the console has gone from strength to strength after this fault was resolved and of course the price cuts were introduced. Many people are drawn to the 360 because of the Xbox Live features which allows the user to download exclusive content for their games, movies and music.

Many people however still prefer the 360’s main rival, the Playstation 3. You would have to say it’s more powerful than the 360, but as of yet they haven’t built the impressive only community which is prominent on the Xbox. The Playstation 3 is also much quieter, it’s quite hard to watch a movie or listen to music on the Xbox as the machine hums loudly in the background. The other thing that might draw people to the PS3 is the fact that they already play the Blue-ray discs; these are the future form of media.

It’s very good to see such a big company cutting the price of such a popular and previously expensive piece of kit, and it has obviously paid dividends for the company and has improved customer satisfaction dramatically as you don’t have to shell out a huge amount of money to obtain a fantastic games console by anyone’s standard.

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