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Current-generation game price drop likely

Current-generation game price drop likely

"Activision's Robert Kotick tells conference that older-console software will become cheaper; publisher will release 40 Xbox 360 games in 2006.

It's a sad fact of life that games for the Xbox 360 will not be cheap. Though no official software price point for the console has yet been announced, every online retailer is taking game preorders for the platform at $59.99 a pop. That's on top of the $399 for the tricked-out 360 (which is the smarter buy) and the thousand-plus dollars for the HDTV and A/V setup required to take full advantage of the console.

This week, though, a major industry player predicted that gamers will soon be able to save money for a change. Speaking to the Bank of America Investment Conference in San Francisco, Activision CEO Robert Kotick told the audience that in 2006, "You're likely to see price declines on the older-generation software."" [more]

¶ D.Vader // 9/24/2005 09:09:00 PM // PermaLink

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