Price cut!!!

Can start of by telling you that I´m from Sweden (and yes our women are beautiful)!

The price drop on Xbox have surprised everyone over here, we were not expecting this so soon, and not so huge. The price in Sweden for an Xbox was before 5000kr which is about $490. You may think that noone would by a console at that price, but PS2 sold at that price, and it sold out in a couple of hours.

Well back to Xbox, after this announcement everyone has gone crazy at our forums. Even the Nintendo fanboys are thinking about buying an Xbox instead of a GC, why?

The Xbox will come down on a pricetag at 2995kr, the Gamecubes recommended retail price is 3195kr, even the PS2 price is around the same price as a Xbox. With more power, the harddrive and a ethernet card, and all those great games who are piling up for Xbox, well you see that you get more for your moneys worth. Oh did I forget to mention that you also get the DVD...

Another thing is that in Sweden the most of us have broadband (don´t know if that is the english name, but almost everyone have speeds from 500kb to 10mb), and many people are seeing the potentials know with an console at that price and ready to go online (well soon anyway *smiles*).

At last I can only say that Xbox will probably be as huge in Europe as in USA after this.

Now if only they did this in Japan...