Microsoft Xbox 360 Price Cut Up to 30 Percent

Microsoft, on Monday, announced the price cut Xbox 360 video games that are marketed in Japan by 30 percent to penetrate and compete digit sales company, Sony and Nintendo games.

Company software giant the United States will cut the price of Xbox 360 Arcade to be 19,800 yen, or about 182 U.S. dollars from the previous price of 27,800 yen. Beyond Nintendo Wii sold with the price of 25,000 yen, Microsoft officials said at the press conference.

Microsoft is frequently struggle to open the road to become the most attractive games in Japan, where after a long time the market was dominated by local production of Nintendo and Sony.

Currently, the Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 is still below the rate of Nintendo Wii, which is still hard behavior in Japan and other countries. (AFP/OL-01)

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