Items tagged with 'Price Drop'

Nintendo Finally Drops Wii Price To $199.99

Nintendo Finally Drops Wii Price To $199.99

Sony lowered the bar with its $299.99 PlayStation 3 slim, and Microsoft followed up with a $100 price cut (and now a $50 rebate on top of that) on its Xbox 360 Elite. And with the holiday season quickly approaching, Nintendo knew it had to do something. In an effort to not be left behind in the latest round of console price... Read More
Activision Could Pull PlayStation 3 Support

Activision Could Pull PlayStation 3 Support

For the longest time, we've felt that Sony's baseline $399 price tag on its PlayStation 3 console was simply too high. Nintendo's Wii is just $299, and Microsoft's Xbox 360 can be had easily for $199. Aside from Blu-ray playback, what does the console really offer to persuade gamers to purchase it over the other, cheaper... Read More
GeForce GTX 200 Series Price Drop In Effect

GeForce GTX 200 Series Price Drop In Effect

It looks like the news we broke last week regarding GeForce GTX 200 series pricing has already taken effect at a couple of on-line retailers.  We just did a quick search at NewEgg and found that a handful of GeForce GTX 260 cards are priced between $299 and $339, which puts them right about on-par with the roughly... Read More
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 Price Dropping to $499?!

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 Price Dropping to $499?!

Over the last couple of days, there have been some rumblings around the web that NVIDIA is planning to drop the price of their recently launched GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280 cards in response to AMD's potent, and more affordable, Radeon HD 4800 series.  The actual numbers quoted have varied, but today we heard some... Read More
PS3 Sales Up After Price Drop

PS3 Sales Up After Price Drop

While the PS3 isn't exactly a computer, it is still a very interesting piece of hardware that might just be a look at the future of slim computing devices if Toshiba (new owners of the Cell technology) and company have anything to say about it.  It also is one of the best pieces of equipment to run folding@home on,... Read More
Zune Price Drops to $199

Zune Price Drops to $199

Zune took a price drop this week, losing $50 of its original $249 price.  On the official Microsoft Zune blog, it was dismissed in little more than a paragraph.  Coincidental that this happened so close to this week's Apple press event?  You decide.Some of you may have already heard, but tomorrow we’re dropping the suggested... Read More