Xbox 360 sees another price drop
After watching sales of its consoles slow to a trickle in recent months, Microsoft this week announced another round of price cuts for the Xbox 360.
The Arcade system, which does not include a hard drive, will now be available for $199, making it the only next-gen console on the market for less than $200. The Xbox 360 Arcade had been retailing for $279. The standard Xbox 360, which now features a 60 gigabyte hard drive, will be $299 (down from $249). The Elite bundle, which includes a 120 GB hard drive, will be available for $399, $50 less than its previous price.
New console prices go into effect Friday, Sept. 5.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Microsoft Japan is already actually paying people to take the machines, with little success. “We hope more people will be able to enjoy Xbox 360,” said marketing marketer Takashi Sensui, “and we can stop enjoying quite so many of them. We also have this fine pile of HD-DVD drives … Wait! Come back!” http://notnews.today.com/?p=63