Microsoft get desperate; give away free Xbox 360 with Windows 7 PCs...

[CM30]

To students anyway. Basically, anyone who buys a Windows 7 PC (laptop or desktop) at $699 or more gets a free 4GB Xbox 360 S.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/20/students-free-xbox-360-with-purchase-of-windows-7-pc/

It's an interesting idea. Probably not good for Microsoft business wise, but pretty great for poor gamers who needed a new computer.

 

[SuperMarioFanX100]

4 gigs? Not even worth it, heh.

 

[NaiBeatle]

4 gigs? Not even worth it, heh.

Buy a 1 TB hard drive for 60 bucks off of Newegg and it's all good now.

 

[TheUltimateKoopa]

Wait.... you can get 1 TB Xbox 360s now?

 

[Lici]

I wish this applied to Australia

 

[UnknownToaster]

I'm not sure what they need to be desperate about with a solid 53.6 million sales and hundreds of thousands of players on daily.

 

[Lici]

It's probably not that they're desperate to sell Windows 7. It's probably more a tactic to reach the people (like myself) who don't own an Xbox and can't be bothered buying one, but would happily use one if given one for free when purchasing something else. And then they've suckered most of those people in who will be likely to continue buying Microsoft consoles, and they'll have expanded their share of the market.

Our two major brands of supermakets are doing a similar thing here. Woolworths is advertising "If you buy fresh produce and you're not happy with it, you can bring it back and we'll replace it, and you don't even need to bring proof of purchase!" Most people would think this is a stupid thing to do because the obvious thing to do would be to take ANY produce to Woolworths and have it replaced, regardless of whether you bought it at Woolworths or another store all together. But the clever part is, while 95% of people will think they're scamming the system and getting away with it, Woolworths have actually lured that customer into their store and majority of those people will buy something else from Woolworths while they're there getting their free produce. And it hardly costs Woolworths a cent.

I love marketing.

 

[Member]

I would love to get a free mac...

 

[Arpegius]

Wait.... you can get 1 TB Xbox 360s now?

As an external yes, internally no. The internal HDD's are capped at a maximum of 250 GB unless Microsoft decides otherwise to upgrade capacity limit. You can format an external for Xbox use (Games, Apps, etc) but only up to 16 GB. The remaining amount will be seen as a removable disk but can still be used for media such as music, videos, and photos.

Back on topic. If I had the spare money I would definitely consider the offer.

IMO smart on their part. They'll make up the minuscule loss with that of game software sales, accessories such as the overpriced hard drives, Xbox Live & Zune subscription costs, etc.