First of all lets clarify what a casting network is. A casting network is a website that aspiring entertainers use to book jobs. Models, actors, musicians and ect use casting networks to look for job opportunities to more commonly get work. The descriptions of these job are commonly kept vague so at this time so using the information provided we were able to make educated guess rather than complete confirmation.
A popular casting network called LA Casting posted a job opportunity titled Xbox. The description of the job was a commercial for an Xbox product. Each actor who got booked for the job was going to be paid in Xbox product. The Xbox product paid to said actors would be totaled at $600 upon the time when the commercial is released. This is the only completely, 100 percent confirmed information given at this time.
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The $600 price point for the PS3 was expensive, but only relative to other products competing.
If they do wind up asking $600 for it it will be because of the Kinect 2.0 and by the way things are sounding about it, its inclusion is more for their benefit than consumers.
I doubt Microsoft would be stupid enough to price their console at 599. Then again, they always manage to surprise me.
http://www.digitalspy.com/g...
Q:I believe the announced camera accessory is packaged with every PS4, is that correct?
A: "I don't think we've pinned that down as yet, exactly what product configurations there will be. More details will be revealed over a few levels in the next few months."
Here's a quote of what the lightbar is for -
"The light bar, according to Sony’s press releases last night, “illuminates to match the colour of characters in a game to offer a simpler, more friendly way to identify players, even when playing side by side. The light bar also changes patterns during gameplay to provide useful information to gamers, such as when a character is critically low on health or has taken major damage.”"
http://www.kotaku.com.au/20...
Its not $600 for a system but a package involving different items. Most likely next gen consoles will go for $399 each. The special package these actors are getting probably also includes a couple games, extra controller, and a year of XBL or w/e... easily adds up to around $600
Article title is kinda misleading
Although the added cost of having Blu Ray & The Cell chip in the PS3 boosted the cost significantly. The PS3 has still been able to catch up to the 360 sales wise, even though it launched up to a year and a half later in some areas after the 360.
The base model of the PS3 cost more than the premium model of the 360, yet the Playstation was able to establish Blu Ray as the standard media over HD DVD.
So although mistakes were made! Progress was made also.
So if you are willing to sign a Xbox Live contract, then you got the $600 console for $200 or $300 perhaps. And the real wild card is whether or not Microsoft will partner up with a cable provider to help keep the cost of entry low.
Maybe it's just me, but a state of the art console is more appealing to me than any cell phone or tablet device. And they all cost the same price.
at most and the casual one nomore then 300$
it did pretty good. so the x720 and ps4 well be fine at 450$