In a press announcement this morning Microsoft unvailed when they will make the Zune available and how much it will cost you. It will be in stores starting November 14 at a price of $249.00. A little steep, maybe. My thought was they would try to undercut the current apple price which is also $249.00 for a 30gig device.
Maybe they thought they had a superior product and just matching the comperable apple product would allow them to undercut the overwhelming market leader.
The press pass announcement also has a long list of preloaded content that will be on the device such as:
Audio Tracks| • | Band of Horses, “Wicked Gil” (Sub Pop Records) |
| • | Bitter:Sweet, “The Mating Game” (Quango Music Group) |
| • | CSS, “Alala (Microsoft edit)” (Sub Pop Records) |
| • | Darkel, “At The End of The Sky (edit)” (Astralwerks) |
| • | Every Move a Picture, “Signs of Life” (V2) |
| • | Small Sins, “Stay” (Astralwerks) |
| • | The Adored, “Tell Me Tell Me” (V2) |
| • | The Rakes, “Open Book” (V2) |
| • | The Thermals, “A Pillar of Salt” (Sub Pop Records) |
Music Video
| • | 30 Seconds to Mars, “The Kill” (*** Records) |
| • | BT, “1.618” (DTS Entertainment) |
| • | Chad VanGaalen, “Red Hot Drops” (Sub Pop Records) |
| • | Coldcut featuring Roots Manuva, “True Skool” (Ninja Tune) |
| • | CSS, “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above” (Sub Pop Records) |
| • | Fruit Bats, “Live: The Wind That Blew My Heart Away” (Sub Pop Records) |
| • | Grandaddy, “Elevate Myself” (V2) |
| • | Hot Chip, “Over and Over” (Astralwerks Records) |
| • | Kraak & Smaak featuring Dez., “Keep Me Home” (Quango Music Group) |
| • | Kinski, “Live: The Snowy Parts of Scandinavia” (Sub Pop Records) |
| • | Paul Oakenfold, “Faster Kill Pussycat (Featuring Brittany Murphy)” (Maverick Records) |
| • | Serena-Maneesh, “Drain Cosmetics” (Playlouderecordings) |
Film Shorts
| • | 5 Boro: “A New York Skateboarding Minute” (Skateboarding) |
| • | Radical Films: “Kranked — Progression” (Mountain Biking) |
| • | TGRTV The North Face (Skiing/Snowboarding) |
Images
| • | A variety of images to personalize a Zune device, including 12 classic rock posters from “Art of Modern Rock” |
I personally have only heard of a couple of these artist and I certainly hope that I didn't actually have to pay for any of this preloaded content as I would delete it as soon as I got the device anyway. Why can't I just get a decent game to play while on the mass transit system of my choice?
Anyway there you have it for $249 this November you can pick up your own shiny new Zune.
Posted
Sep 28 2006, 06:45 AM
by
Josh Phillips
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