Rumors: new 360 bundles coming to EUROPE this xmas?

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take with a grain of salt, but if true this can be a huge hit agains sony in europe:


Xbox 360 + Gears of War
Xbox 360 + Pro Evolution Soccer 6
Xbox 360 + FIFA Football 2007
Xbox 360 + Need For Speed: Carbon
Xbox 360 Core + 4 games (TBA)

+ Strong Ad Campaign announcing all these packs.


The Saint Row pack will be available in France next week.

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2006/08/060807-xbox-360-saints-row-bundle.jpg

Information send from Microsoft to distributors (at least in Spain). Two
sources confirmed this info
 
Why do people always pick new games for their rumored pack-ins? New games are the most unlikely group to be picked in reality, yet they are the most likely group to be picked to guess reality?

Duh.

Anyway, I would expect a bundle with PGR3, Kameo or PDZ way, WAY before any of those bundles.
 
Inane_Dork said:
Why do people always pick new games for their rumored pack-ins? New games are the most unlikely group to be picked in reality, yet they are the most likely group to be picked to guess reality?

Duh.

Anyway, I would expect a bundle with PGR3, Kameo or PDZ way, WAY before any of those bundles.
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? Wasn't Halo bundled immediately?

Bundling with a high profile new title is a way of encouraging to shift more hardware. I've been expecting a GoW bundle from the day it come out.
 
Dave Baumann said:
? Wasn't Halo bundled immediately?
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MGS's biggest success for years? Heck no. I don't think it's ever been bundled with the system. It sells plenty on its own. JSRF, Sega GT, Star Wars: Clone Wars and others have been bundled. No top selling games were used, IIRC.

Bundling with a high profile new title is a way of encouraging to shift more hardware.
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Theoretically, yes. But I know of no AAA title that went straight to bundled status. No publisher, not even the platform holder, wants to lose all the profits off those razor blades.
 
Inane_Dork said:
Theoretically, yes. But I know of no AAA title that went straight to bundled status. No publisher, not even the platform holder, wants to lose all the profits off those razor blades.
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I got Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt bundled with the NES. :LOL:
 
J_Saint said:
It was included with the green Halo Xbox years later.
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Wasn't that a really limited edition? I had totally forgotten about that, though.



Sis said:
I got Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt bundled with the NES. :LOL:
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Another bundle I had completely missed in my cranial search. I didn't follow console games back then. Were those two games always packed with the NES?
 
Inane_Dork said:
Wasn't that a really limited edition? I had totally forgotten about that, though.



Another bundle I had completely missed in my cranial search. I didn't follow console games back then. Were those two games always packed with the NES?
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Heh, yes?

Old school man. Those games came with every NES. Along with the light gun. And two controllers.

Back in the old days consoles always shipped with a game and not one but two controllers. Core pacs with one controller and no game were introduced a bit into the SNES-Genesis rivalry as the cheapest way to get hardware too consumers. They eventually took over the market. The SNES originally shipped with Super Mario World and two controllers though. Genesis might have only had one controller? And the pack in was Altered Beast (crappy default pack in!)

As an OT aside, I understood why packing in cartridge games went the way of the dodo. Cartridges had a expensive BOM. A cartridge cost a significant amount to actually produce. However I always figured that pack in games would return with optical based games, after all, it only costs cents to press a disc. All you're paying for is the game's development, and even further if you packed in slightly older games you weren't even losing any real sales since the average game has sold most all it ever will in a couple months. However pack in games didn't return with CD systems, which puzzled me. Until I realized more recently what a pack in game really is going to affect is tie ratio. Today you must buy a game with your system for the most part, tie ratio is an instant 1 in most cases. However with a pack in, many consumers might opt to not buy any games day of console purchase. You would also take long term tie ratio (which are often measured in 4's and 5's) down by 1 in many cases.

So it isn't the cost of the disc that stops default pack ins, it's the cost of lost software sales.
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Inane_Dork said:
MGS's biggest success for years? Heck no. I don't think it's ever been bundled with the system. It sells plenty on its own. JSRF, Sega GT, Star Wars: Clone Wars and others have been bundled. No top selling games were used, IIRC.
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I'm pretty certain that Halo was bundled with the Xbox in the UK pretty much immediately as Dave says. I'm sure I bought one.
 
Inane_Dork said:
MGS's biggest success for years? Heck no. I don't think it's ever been bundled with the system. It sells plenty on its own. JSRF, Sega GT, Star Wars: Clone Wars and others have been bundled. No top selling games were used, IIRC.
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I could choose between DOA3, Halo or RS:challenge (all are top quality titles) when I got my second XBox (the first died after tinkering :( ).

Cheers
 
Gerry said:
I'm pretty certain that Halo was bundled with the Xbox in the UK pretty much immediately as Dave says. I'm sure I bought one.
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I thought as much.

Pushing out a bundle with a high profile AAA title can be used to as a carrott to increase marketshare in regions where you want to increase marketshare.
 
I could see them bundling Saint's Row after it's had a month or two to sell, though it's not first party so I don't see how that would work.
 
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