Rumor: New Xbox 360 bundles due for the holidays

29 Comments by Justin McElroy Aug 13th 2007 11:01AM
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360

The industrious Frenchmen of gamick.fr say they spied the above image at a Microsoft marketing site that pretty clearly depicts a new 360 bundles for the Elite model, packed with Forza 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. (A Premium model version was found later.) There's literally no other information available at this time save for these images, so we don't know if the packs will be priced at the recently slashed rates. Although the sticker does say that they're free, so we're betting that they're basically deal sweeteners.

Also, the photos were reportedly labeled as "Holiday Value Bundles" (they seem to have since been removed) so we're guessing they'll be here just in time for your grandma to knit you a sweater instead of buying you one. Adding to this pile of mysteries: The lack of any similar bundle for the Core model ... interesting.

[Via Kotaku]

Tags: bundles, holiday2007, xbox360

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samfish: Aug 13th 2007; 11:08AM

If it's not free, then Microsoft officially deserves more scorn than Sony for following Sony's model rather than Nintendo's.

Stevo: Aug 13th 2007; 11:11AM

So you're saying that if the price for a bundle w/ Forza and Ultimate Alliance (Best bundled games for Xbox....maybe ever)ended up being the same as it was before the price cut...that'd be reason for scorn?

hvnlysoldr: Aug 13th 2007; 11:12AM

They should also get scorn for insulting "tech demo" Wii Sports with "full games." Full games! WE freaking know that they're games. How can they be freaking not full!

samfish: Aug 13th 2007; 11:14AM

No, I mean if they raise the price, ala Sony and the 80gb PS3 bundle, they deserve to be hit.
Just throw the games in for free, damnit.

Stevo: Aug 13th 2007; 11:16AM

Oh okay-- Agreed, Samfish :)

Diskoboy: Aug 13th 2007; 11:40AM

Riiiiiiiiight Samfish, you just keep right on with those dilusions of grandeur.

Considering MS does different pack in bundles every holiday season since 2002.

I think it's the other way around.

samfish: Aug 13th 2007; 11:54AM

Do you know what Delusions of Grandeur actually means?
It makes no sense at in within the context you've used the phrase in.

Konny: Aug 13th 2007; 11:10AM

With all the 360 versions sporting HDMI out now, they need to differentiate the Elite somehow to justify the $100 difference between it and the Premium.

IE. theres no reason for the Elite unless you want more HDD space.

Stevo: Aug 13th 2007; 11:13AM

I was going to get the elite for the disk space until I found out how amazing Bungie is w/ their save space...I really don't think there's any reason to have more than 20gigs on ANY console.

0ldb0y: Aug 13th 2007; 12:20PM

Larger HDD.

Aaaaaand.....black paint job!

Korova: Aug 13th 2007; 2:42PM

Get Elite if you want to DL Antonioni's Blow Up in HD. Otherwise(if you have no idea what that meant) get Pro.

Elite is for movie buffs, snobs, junkies and such other artsi-fartsi fanboys and riff raff

hzGaming: Aug 13th 2007; 11:28AM

Love the new tagline .. but it would be better if it was .. Go Big. Go Often to help drive home the amount of times your going to need to contact microsoft.

ForceUnleashed: Aug 13th 2007; 11:36AM

They're probably going to price it at $500 or more. I mean these are 2 major title games after all. There's no way in hell MS is going to just price them at the regular price.

The Elite was just bumped down to $450 correct? I think $500 would be a good price for this bundle.

Gregory Kimball: Aug 13th 2007; 11:49AM

Oh, I beg to differ. Both of these titles have been out for months, and it costs Microsoft almost nothing to make more copies.

Korova: Aug 13th 2007; 2:45PM

Or you can hang your hat on the words FREE INSIDE and hope for four fiti Elite and tri fiti Pro

dvdguy: Aug 13th 2007; 11:52AM

I'm so suing CheapyD for leaking this. Even though he didn't.

hegemonyhog: Aug 13th 2007; 11:56AM

It'll be the same cost as the regular system, that I'm not worried about.

It's like MS is always *this close* to getting me to buy the system again, but it's just never all together. Free games, price drop and a better chipset = my money.

daniel: Aug 13th 2007; 11:58AM

shops in the uk have been selling premium 360s with 2 or 3 good and sometimes a second wireless controller for slightly above rrp, or rrp, or even below rrp for ages now

ssuk: Aug 13th 2007; 12:06PM

And bam, wait until later this week... This will be the EU Xbox 360 Elite setup. Taking the Sony route and adding games to the console while keeping all the prices the same. It's a shit way of doing it, but anything which makes the EU 360 more value for money, the better.

0ldb0y: Aug 13th 2007; 12:21PM

I believe Elite also has an HDMI cable included, whereas Pro does not.

Paul: Aug 13th 2007; 12:37PM

yes this is true....although some would argue that you can find an hdmi cable online for really cheap which is true. what i wonder is how good of quality the hdmi cable actually is that comes with the elite.....

Curmeo: Aug 13th 2007; 12:22PM

damn, MS is trying everything to get rid of all their Xbox 3FixMe's before they start selling Falcons.

John: Aug 13th 2007; 12:25PM

Has anyone else gotten this problem with the elite, or any 360 for that matter? I just bought an elite to replace my premium. ( I know about the warranty, but I had already bought a Circuit City one when I got the system. I suggest nobody else ever do that.) So My Elite doesn't seem to always want to retract the DVD tray. I don't want to return it because I am having enough of a time getting my Xbox Live ARcade crap transferred to THIS machine, but anyone have any ideas?

MED: Aug 13th 2007; 1:13PM

Well in Canada with the recent price drop all the places (like futureshop & bestbuy)have forza 2 bundled with it already. plus this week you also get splinter cell double agent or viva pinata with it depending on where you go. http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0665000FS10089279&catid=23363&logon=&langid=EN

deaftly: Aug 13th 2007; 2:04PM

Dear Sony,

Suck It!

Sincerely,
Microsoft

Korova: Aug 13th 2007; 3:03PM

The price should be $360. Duh!

nick: Aug 13th 2007; 6:02PM

You guys are going to destroy Xbox 360 sales. There was the price cut rumor going for so long which has prevented me from buying one. Now with this info, if I wait just a little longer, I can get 2 free games.

Thierry: Aug 13th 2007; 7:17PM

That bundle might tip me over the fence to finally get a 360 assuming that this 360 has the hdmi port, extra hit sink and hopefully smaller chip.

Mo the Hawk: Aug 14th 2007; 6:16PM

Marvel Ultimate Alliance? Really? Not that the game is bad, but what an odd choice for a pack-in. Even more odd than that Rockstar Table Tennis pack-in rumor.

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