Xbox 360 Arcade confirmed by MS, short on details

by James Ransom-Wiley on Oct 18th 2007 3:23PM

Finally, someone from Microsoft has acknowledged the Xbox 360 Arcade console: "Arcade becomes [for us] the ability to bring in a new set of audiences. They're probably a little bit more casually focused, they're looking for a new family experience or they're more price focused," Robbie Bach told Financial Times, marking Microsoft's first public comments about the new SKU. The FT report also suggests a $279 price tag, but fails to relate sound information about the included "games" (or are they demos?) and an official street date -- maybe that's because Xbox 360 Arcade has already arrived.

When asked for comment, a Microsoft rep fed us the old: "We have nothing to announce at this time. Thanks!" What's the deal?

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Tags: Xbox-360, xbox-360-arcade, Xbox360Arcade

Reader Comments (67)

attack its Wii-eak spot for massive damage?

Wrong console :P

A demo version of Uno?

Maybe they take out the Draw Four cards.

I saw one of these the other night at my local Fry's Electronics, I checked it, it was born on 9/17/07 and it was lot #738, 256MB memory unit, 1 CD with the 5 Live games and it was priced at $279.99.

I thought Microsoft was finally starting to break even right before the 360 was released?

Xbox Arcade disc contents

00:03:18:00 WELCOME VIDEO
n/a PAC-MAN CE
n/a BOOM BOOM ROCKET
n/a UNO
n/a LUXOR 2
n/a FEEDING FRENZY
n/a ZUMA (TRIAL)
n/a MARBLE BLAST ULTRA (TRIAL)
n/a 3D ULTRA MINIGOLF (TRIAL)
n/a FROGGER (TRIAL)
n/a SOLTRIO SOLITAIRE (TRIAL)
n/a VIVA PINATA
n/a SURF'S UP
00:01:07:00 VIVA PINATA
00:01:34:00 SHREK THE THIRD

Pac-man, Uno, Boom Boom Rocket, Luxor 2, and Feeding Frenzy are all full copies the rest are demo's.

thanks.

weird they don't have any good demos, like bioshock, eternal sonata, skate, or others

I dont get it, if you already have one open, why you still dont know if they are demo or complete games.

they're going to send you an elite? heh probably just an updated 360 with the hdmi port, and NOT with a 120 gig hd.

ya know...I just don't remember this much whining when the PS2 had issues....
I have two friends that had to replace their PS2's a couple of times.....

And on a side note....about the HDD...how many of us got the HDD for the PS2?? Did we really need it?? And what was the cost of that bad boy...100.00 ....where was the outrage and outcry then......hmmmmm how quickly we forget...

Is that a Big Daddy riding a snowboard?

279 is too high a price. They should've placed it at the price of the Wii if the really wanted casual gamers!!

They probably don't want to sing any songs about it since there are a ton of those silly Halo 'themed' Xboxi out there. AND they have the core systems to sell through. I guess they don't want to draw the attention away from their disco'd skus...until they are gone.

Hense, the lame non-announcement.