Since it's been pretty much confirmed that the 20GB 360 is going to be getting a price cut down to $299.95, we hoped that the Arcade SKU would be getting a similar price cut. In light of the rumors of a 60GB HDD SKU though, we did speculate the price drop was simply to clear shelves of the older 20GB units and that the future 60GB unit wouldn't debut at $299.99.
While that could all still be proven wrong, as more info comes in it seems to be the most likely scenario. Thanks to a tip from our good buddies over at ps3fanboy we've got an advertisement from Circut City that seems to confirm that by the weekend of July 27 the Arcade unit will not have gotten a price cut. Makes you think about why someone would buy that over an HDD equipped unit at $299.99; unless of course they'll all be off the shelves by then ....
Only time will tell, but look for E3 to clear up a lot of these uncertainties.
Reader Comments (9)
Posted: Jul 12th 2008 10:32PM (Unverified) said
Sorry about that guys, got the date right, got the month wrong.
S'what I get for flipping around between tabs so much; I really hate Pre-E3.
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S'what I get for flipping around between tabs so much; I really hate Pre-E3.
Posted: Jul 12th 2008 11:17PM (Unverified) said
They're obviously going the PS3 route and clearing all those old chip and 20GB 360s so they can bring in the 60Gb at the 20Gbs price which I believe will be released aroung the same time they plan on releasing the Standalone 60Gb HDD. Elite still needs to drop to 400 cause I don't think anyone is buying those at the price it is at now.
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Posted: Jul 13th 2008 1:37AM Puercoperro said
God dang I just bought my 20gb -_-
WHY ME WHY ME!!!
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WHY ME WHY ME!!!
Posted: Jul 13th 2008 2:09PM docstrange said
Or is Sony going the 360 route?
Or is redesigning a console's guts in order to reduce both cost and price just a natural part of every hardware generation cycle dating back to the 16-bit era?
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Or is redesigning a console's guts in order to reduce both cost and price just a natural part of every hardware generation cycle dating back to the 16-bit era?
Posted: Jul 13th 2008 1:36AM Puercoperro said
Nothing to do with topic, but how much is CoD 4 right now?
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Posted: Jul 13th 2008 2:06PM docstrange said
After you take what Microsoft claims it costs them to produce those 20G hard drives you'd think the Arcade SKU would be down to like $50 by now...
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