Microsoft’s Wii-killer

Wii is just too interactive, dynamic, and immersive for the “button mashing” action the xbox delivers. The arcade gives a blast from the past but so can an old 386 from a pawnshop running dos. ie:(prince of persia on xbox360)

Only way this will pan out is with some sort of revolutionary controller to fool our senses in thinking we are closer to VR. Wii wins out.

Tim Reynolds WTF are you talking about?

Stole from the Wii? Can you tell me what the 360 “stole” from the Wii? The online arcade/marketplace was available before the Wii was even announced. M$ basically created the online gaming for consoles with the original XBox. If anyone stole anything from any one it was the PS3 stealing motion sensing from the Wii and the online market place from M$.

I’m not an M$ support be get your facts strait before flaming a board.

I don’t see how this is a wii killer. It is missing the feature that makes the Wii sell. It doesn’t have an answer to the Wiimote. I’ve played these home console games since atari first released pong and to me, being able to stand up and do something instead of sitting on the couch mashing buttons makes the Wii much better.

I also wonder how much money Microsoft will lose per each sale of their new system. I thought they were already losing money on their consoles. Won’t selling an xbox at $249 eat into the sales of their own higher priced consoles, and if so, won’t it cost Microsoft a lot of money?

Gee wiz, what a surprise, Microsoft has an answer to the Wii. Microsoft always waits for the competition to inovate, then Microsoft copies the technology and markets it as an answer. Just as the Xbox stole it’s technology from the PS2, Micrsoft stole the technology from the Wii. I knew it would happen, I am surprised it took so long. What’s worse is all of those idiots out there that buy the Microsoft products. You all keep the pirates in business. Everything Bill comes up with on his own is a flop.

I dont see the point xbox releasing this system as a rival to the Wii,the xbox is already established as a core gamers system and is just tryin’ 2 make som spare change by marketing 2 older gamers that the nintendo managed 2 tap, which i must say was a good strategy seeing as nintendo wii is selling like hot cakes.

James from Troy hit the nail on the head. Obviously Microsoft knows it will not be able to kill the Wii, but its meant to offer a lower entrance price for its console without lowering the value of its more expensive hard-core 360.

Its similar to what designers of clothes do. e.g. Ralph Lauren and creation of Polo brand means that the designer can sell some of its clothes under the Polo brand cheaper than the more expensive Ralph Lauren brand without lowering the *value* of its Ralph Lauren brand.

It’s a great way for MSFT to increase sales and revenues for the upcoming holiday season (especially with the Wii shortage).

Anyways, it seems like Mark is an engineering major from Cal Tech who doesn’t understand economics and management, and seems like he wants a job at Google…

To Mike A, this system comes with a 256mb memory card. Also, as an adult-owner of both systems who has been playing games since my Atari 2600, I can tell you that as much fun as the Wii is at first, the Xbox 360 is a much deeper console, with a better library of games, a great online community with the ability to download demos (something the Wii still misses), and a beefier internal set of hardware that will be able to play “next gen” games for a very long time to come.

The games included with this package are very weak. The Wii offers fun via movement and activity. The 360 pack in lets you play UNO? Can’t I play that with a $5 deck of UNO cards?

It’s $30 more expensive, the games included are not interactive like the Wii games (due to the motion controller), and with this 360 system you need to buy a $40 memory card because it comes with no internal memory to save games. I doubt this will compete at all with the Wii.

It’s a classic move from Microsoft; good enough and cheap wins over the market. But the appeal of the Wii wasn’t based on price as much as on the innovation it brought to gaming and the broadening of the market it achieved by attracting the “very young” and the “very old” as compared to the traditional console audiences. Once Microsoft brings that kind of innovation will it have a chance of winning over the market the Wii has expanded into. Innovation is what revived Nintendo; not aggressive pricing.

Nothing Microsoft makes kills anything but their own reputation. Example: Vista, Zune, Tablet PC, Entertainment PC, Etc. Guess thats why Bill Gates is leaving his sinking ship Microsoft.

Is not and is not meant to be a “wii killer”. It is meant to help holiday sales by adding more value to the entry level system without lowering the price.