Microsoft has followed Sony into a pre-holiday video game price shakeout.
Prices on the Xbox 360 game console will drop about 13 percent in Japan to the equivalent of about $300, and a bare-bones version will go for around $250. As Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation 3 strategize on price, the Nintendo Wii has remained a strong seller at its original $250 price point.
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Latest News about Microsoft is slashing Xbox 360 Latest News about Xbox 360 prices in Japan by about 13 percent as the price war among video game consoles heats up around the world ahead of the key year-end shopping season.
The Xbox 360 console will sell in Japan for 34,800 yen (US$304) beginning Nov. 1, down from 39,795 yen ($348), the U.S. software maker’s Japan unit said Monday in a statement.
A more basic version of the machine now selling for 29,800 yen ($261) will go for 27,800 yen ($243), according to Microsoft.
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