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disolitude on 12 August 2009
wyvers said:

can this really be considered a price drop? the casual buyer / gamer mom will see the same 299 price tag he could see before when buying a "real" xbox 360


Its called offering more for less...it matters down the road.



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V-r0cK on 12 August 2009
coolbeans said:
V-r0cK said:
Well thats good, i didnt think the Elite shouldve been that expensive compared to what it offered than what the Arcade didnt have at their $199 price. Hopefully Sony will have something to counter this soon.

To each his own, but I'm sure the 120 gig HDD, HDMI cables, and 2 games would've been more than enough to understand that extra $199.

True to each his own.  But the Xbox360 Elite im referring to didnt come with any games for the price of $399, that extra $199 is just the HDD and HDMI wires (which i think would be better spent on another 360 Arcade..but thats just me).  With two games is more understandable. 

http://www.ebgames.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=65031




Zezlar on 12 August 2009

Will be a good price cut, but I don't think it will have much of an impact unless those games are extremely good.



Kantor on 12 August 2009

If we take this as evidence, European retailers have been cutting the PS3's price by 100 euros (or more) for months...



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JaggedSac on 12 August 2009
Kantor said:
If we take this as evidence, European retailers have been cutting the PS3's price by 100 euros (or more) for months...

I think it was this plus Arcade boxes no longer having Pros listed on them.



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matt247 on 12 August 2009

The store says they'll be having a sale that week



TheSource on 12 August 2009

Its nice that we finally have one of the machines from the big three completely below the launch price of its predecessor now

Launch:

Xbox/PS2 - $300

GC - $200

 

Now:

X360 - $200/$300

Wii - $250

PS3 - $400

 

Still, a 100 million machines at $200+ is damn impressive for this generation in a freaking global recession



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Kantor on 12 August 2009

Also, this isn't really a price cut, but the upgrading of a model. It would be like the 80GB PS3 being discontinued and the 160GB becoming $399. If there was then, say, a 40GB at $299, because this Elite-Pro isn't the cheapest model.



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deathgod33 on 12 August 2009

thats pretty good but now the arcade is useless at 199, for only 100 bucks more you get tons more with the elite.

so i expect a price cut on the arcade if one is put on the elite



 

 

 

 

sguy78 on 12 August 2009

This should come as less of a surprise than the PS3 going down in price.