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Xbox 360 Price Drop Official

Posted by Zonk on from the this-is-where-it-gets-ugly dept.

GameDaily is reporting that the $50 price drop on the Xbox 360 is now official. That's for the premium SKU, different boxes have different drops: "The Elite SKU (120GB) has been slashed by $30, bringing it down to $449.99, and the Core SKU now has an MSRP that is $20 lower at $279.99. All prices are effective August 8th. In addition, the special Halo 3 themed Xbox 360 that was casually mentioned by Peter Moore at this year's E3 Microsoft press conference has been assigned an estimated retail price of $399.99. The Xbox 360 Halo 3 Special Edition Console will arrive in stores this September and will feature "an authentic Spartan green-and-gold finish," a matching Xbox 360 Wireless Controller, Xbox 360 20GB hard drive, Xbox 360 Headset, an Xbox 360 Play and Charge Kit, and more."

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  1. Slashed? by frederec · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I like how a price drop of 6.25%, or $30 on the elite version, counts as "slashed" prices.

  2. SKU SKU SKU SKU by Nozsd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's for the premium SKU

    NO! It's for the premium XBOX. People don't buy a SKU, they buy the XBOX! Come ON, what is with all the SKU nonsense? I used to work at an EB Games and I nor any of the other employees EVER talked like that. Don't any of you realize how lame you sound?

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  3. 65nm chips? by Belisarivs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The $50 price drop is nice and all, but I'd be more interested in getting a unit that didn't run a significant risk of dying on me, extended warranty or no. What I want to know is when can I get my hands on the long-rumored 65nm chip version.

  4. Some odditities in the price drops... by bomanbot · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Well aside from that annoying habit of attaching that stupid SKU (stop it already. people!), I think those price drops are a bit odd.

    Why didnt they drop the price uniformly across the board? With a price drop of $50 the Core version would have been priced directly against the Wii, which I think would have made sense for Microsoft at least from a psychological and marketing standpoint.

    And why did the Elite get a price drop that soon? AFAIK it is still pretty new so the people who bought one already could be pretty annoyed (although $30 on formerly $480 is not too deep of a cut).

    Oh and one laughable bit from the article:

    "The fact that we have been able to keep our launch price longer than any other console while retaining our leadership position demonstrates that consumers believe in the value of Xbox 360," said Mitch Koch

    Yeah right and it has nothing to do with the fact that the Xbox 360 was the only next-gen console available for about a year, which makes the leadership thing sorta automatic...
  5. O Come On by Duffy13 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Honestly, they could do better then this. The amount is negligible, bump it up to to at least $100 then come talk to me.

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