Very nice find mrstickball. You should give heads up to xbox360fanboy.

well arcade is £159 over here, if its $199 over there, its kinda more or less similar.

i think the $199 price might be a promotional item from that specific shop. xbox 360 has promos very cheap here also, i saw in papers today.

The official price drop that took the Arcade to $279.99 took place in August 2007. However, they have their stock data of getting the Arcade in on 10/23/07 (which is accurate), and it's most likely there could of been an in-store promotion in November, as many stores were doing Black Friday sales on systems (get an Arcade and get a free game, or gift card).

That's pretty convincing then.

Skeeuk - The United States and our video game systems work quite differently than Europe.

Unless you sell a system for MORE than MSRP, you won't find prices different than the MSRP. For all the years I've been a game (about 16), I have yet to see one video game system from any manufacturer change the price for their system for a promotional sale.

If anyone promo's an item, it usually involves an in-store bundle for the MSRP, but it has never once been lower than MSRP.

The only time I've seen X360's lower than normal are when they sell Re-Furbs, and that's certainly not the case. It's a normal, standard, Xbox 360 Arcade unit for $199.99. There's no reason for any store to just randomly drop the price on their item $80 to the rumored ArsTechnia price of $199.99.

Nice entry price.

Can a mod edit this picture in his profile....

Seems all confirmed now.

If this indeed is true, I hope it forces Sony to drop their price, making it cheaper for me to buy a PS3.

Please, Sony, please. :D

I PMed ioi about it. At any rate, I'm trying to remove mention of the poster as best I can.

But at any rate...This is huge in the fact it's pretty much confirmed.

@skeeuk, since last fall the manufacturer can sue a retailer if they offer it at a different price than msrp. thank our supreme court for that gem. but as mrstickball said, it is very rare, and normaly only after production has ended that you find a console or a game below the msrp, most game contracts for sellers include rebates if the game becomes discounted as long as they stick to the msrp, which the publisher issuse, they will lower it to move bad games. there is generaly a right off point, and mom and pop operations dont always get the same protection.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-28-2007/0004617822&EDATE=