Responding to complaints, Xbox group product manager Aaron Greenberg has said that the company does not want to mislead consumers with MS Points and will be looking to display actual currency prices next to the MS Points for all content.
“We never intended to mislead people,” Greenberg said, via G4. “We want to be transparent about it, and so it is something that we’re looking at.”
“How can we be more transparent and let people see it in actual dollars? You’ve got to think that we have one service that we’re offering around the world. The nice thing about Points is that no matter if you’re on the JPY or the EUR or the USD – something that’s 200 Points is 200 Points everywhere around the world. There’s more technical complexities to being able to put local prices in. You have to do that for every product in every country and you then have to deal with currency fluctuations. So there’s some challenges to that, but we absolutely did it with the Games On Demand, response has been good and absolutely it’s something we’re looking at doing,” he concluded.
Result for: group product manager
In an interview with Kotaku, Aaron Greenberg, group product manager for Xbox 360 has said that the company is confident it’s console will outsell the rival Sony PlayStation 3 for the holiday season, worldwide.
“We expect to continue our price advantage over the PlayStation 3 for a long time,” said Greenberg.
“And we feel confident that we’ll outsell the PS3 this holiday season in North America and in Europe. We’ll do it on a global scale.”
Greenberg cited the across the board price cut as well as a collection of new bundles as reasons for why the console will succeed.
“We’ve seen lifts across all consoles, but the Arcade is doing exceptionally well,” added Greenberg.
The 360 has outsold the PS3 in Japan for five weeks straight and recently outsold its rival in the US for the month of September.
