360 HD-DVD Add-on Dropped to $179

Joystiq reports that the HD-DVD add-on for the 360 has been permanently dropped in price to $179. Additionally, Bob Barker style, you get five free movies too: "Appearing at Comic-Con in San Diego, the announcement was made amidst promotion for the HD-DVD releases of the film 300 and the cheerleader epic, Heroes. Not content with just a twenty dollar dip, Microsoft has extended Toshiba's 'Perfect Offer' promotion to Xbox 360 owners, awarding five free movies with purchase. The hard part now is choosing between Casablanca and The Dukes of Hazzard. Naturally, the Xbox Live Marketplace wasn't left out in all this news as 300 will be making its way to the service in HD on August 14th, while free content for Heroes will arrive sometime before its HD-DVD release."

Comments

last ditch effort

[AkumaKuruma]

amazing what lengths they will go thru to try and push a peripheral that uses a dying format. more and more places are going bluray only and microsofts effort to fight back is with a $20 pricebreak. this would go right on my self next to my Sega Genesis-32x-CD.