The '360 Arcade' Made Official

Posted by Zonk on Thursday October 18, 2007 @08:46AM from the after-it's-been-in-stores-fora-while dept.

The Financial Times (via Gamespot) is reporting that (after having already been in stores for about a week), the Xbox 360 Arcade sku is now official. "The $279 Arcade will include a wireless controller and casual games including Pac-Man [Championship Edition], Uno and Luxor 2. Its launch has been widely rumoured but Mr Bach's comments were the first official confirmation. While Microsoft may hope to steal sales from the Wii with the Arcade, its Premium $349 Xbox 360 faces pressure from the $399 PS3, which has a bigger, 40-gigabyte hard drive, built-in wi-fi and a Blu-ray drive."

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First Post! by baffled · 2007-10-18 08:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Demos only by DrXym · 2007-10-18 10:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The XBox 360 system comes with demos only not fully enabled versions of those games. It's also worth bearing in mind that with a paltry 256mb memory card instead of a HDD, that this system will be increasingly irrelevant. It can't be long before Microsoft throw back the doors and allow any game to insist they only play on HDD enabled machines. I'm sure they have motivation to do this if for no other reason than to drive sales of their HDD expansions.