Target confirms $299 Xbox 360 Pro; Arcade still $280, says CC

Drop the arcade SKU completely or drop it to 250. Otherwise, what's the point?

confidant huh?

I still won't believe it unless Microsoft announces it themselves.

Also the price drop is going to be in effect for the Mid-West retailer I work for. Go to the following link: New Ad

Pick the "Tab" ad, and go to page 3. "New low price" of $299.99

confident confident confident

I get what MS was trying to do with the Arcade but I think at this point they should just give it up and cancel that SKU.

Just have the Elite and the Pro. 60G and 120G. Simple and easy to understand.

And don't announce anymore sku's and don't cancel anymore either. Otherwise they'd be entering sony terriotry...

They'll probably just drop the Arcade SKU all together in the near future.

"Limited supplies" is also a code word for "no rain checks, bitches."

On it's own, it doesn't mean anything.

300$ for 20gb..no thanks:)

It'll be interesting to see how they handle this transition. I think it would be a mistake to simply phase out the 20gb and introduce the 60gb at the old price. That would piss consumers off, and the 360 after all *does* need this price cut. So will they phase out the 20gb and replace it with the 60gb at the $299 price point, a la Sony and the 80gb Motorstorm bundle? Or will they phase out the Arcade, and keep the 20gb at $299 and the 60gb at $350?

That seems like the wisest choice, but who knows. They obviously can't keep two SKUs within $20 of each other when the bloody hard drive that differentiates them costs $130...

The arcade sku is dead weight, even if Microsoft wants it to be competing with the Wii. A price drop for the arcade would be extremely beneficial to Microsoft.

I hope the price will drop at Japan retailers too.

Entering Sony Territory?Isn't this the 360's 4 sku?I think PS3 has had 4 as well.

Even though I consider myself a "gamer" I still have yet to purchase a next-gen (well I guess current-gen by now) system. So if the arcade was dropped to $250 or below I would be very tempted.

Alright i'll say it again but modified.

Arcade should go goodbye or be dropped to 250 no HDD equals no buy in my book.

20GBs get a clearence which will hopefully sell all the non-Falcon chip ones(they should've destroyed those pieces of garbage) and all the 20GBs. If they do plan on releasing a Jasper chip anytime soon they should hope this sells away all the Falcon chips.

20GB HDDs should be recycled and used to make the 60GB ones if thats even possible.

60GBs should be introduced at $300 dollars cause I'm pretty sure it doesn't cost over 400 to make a 360 or a 60GB HDD with special casing. Plus what's the point of introducing a new SKU if its just gonna be more expensive seems dumb if Sony can drop the price of the 60Gb just to release a 80Gb at the same price then MS should be able to. MS take a play out of the Sony playbook. I think its not smart to release the 60Gb now if everyone is gonna be buying the lower costing 20GB they should release it around the time they plan on releasing the Standalone 60GB HDDs which is Oct-Nov supposely and plus Gears 2 come on that equals cash in the pockets.

Lower the Elite to $400 I seriously doubt anyones buying these cause they can get a 40Gb PS3 and a game(if the Kmart thing is to be believed) or even a 20Gb and a controller/game+recharable kit and thats before the price drop of the 20Gb.

120Gb needs to be atleast 140 or less. 150 is too expensive for a HDD.

And again lower the freaking accessories nobodies gonna spend 100 bucks on a piece of plastic AKA Wireless adapter when Pelican is making them for 30(last time I checked at Best buy) and come on the controllers ain't worth that much when I've seen them sell a Headset+controller bundle for like $10 above the actual control(gameexpress). Wireless headsets that aren't Bluetooth need to stop being sold for $60 it should be sold for 35 if not 30 and where's my colors at? I'm still missing my black one. Stop selling memory cards when you got HDDs. LOL a piece of plastic and padding should be 10(wired headset).

Why does MS not had an internet browser but yet they made IE and have a messenger kit which will do pretty well with an internet brower?

end of my rant.

This was just put up on Xbox.com. Microsoft has confirmed it.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2008/0713-consolestorage.htm

not a good market strategy MS and the elite still cost 450 just not smart MS. PS3 definitely ain't gonna want to lower price now.

Do the new Xbox 360's still make it sound like you test jet engines in your living room?

Missing their opportunity to get mad bragging rights against Nintendo

"So much more, all for the same price"

Unless what others contend are correct, and they're just going to drop the Arcade, so that they can start competing levelly with PS3 on the whole issue of mandatory HDD

So the question is: Who in their right mind would ever buy an Arcade now? The pricing is silly. Go for the 20gb, its not like they will run out on stock for it for months.

I like how we all assume we know more about what MS is doing than they do. I am sure they have a plan for the Arcade; it's not like they could have overlooked this or forgotten about the system. If it takes them a while to pick up the slack, though, their intentions will become more questionable.

I hit my target at 9:30 a.m. There was only one Pro in stock, and the sales guy on duty had no idea there was a price drop or gift card. The shelf tag still listed $349.

When I checked out, I asked if I could apply the gift card to the purchase. They said absolutely not, that any purchase on the gift card would have to be rung up separately. So it's $299 no matter how you slice it, but you get $25 off whatever else you're going to buy with it.

Still a better deal than Circuit City's NCAA budle rip-off.

I doubt the Arcade's going anywhere, either. This is just a stock reduction. The 20Gb model is discontinued and will be replaced with the 60Gb, just like Sony did when they discontinued the 80Gb PS3.

In other words, there'll still be Arcade, Pro and Elite. Elite might get a price drop with the new motherboards, but Pro will stay at $350 with a bigger hard drive, and Arcade will either stay at $279 - still $80 less than the Pro - or drop, at most, to $250.

The real question is when, or if, Microsoft will release a larger-capacity hard drive, or drop the prices on hard drives. A $30 20Gb hard drive makes the Arcade make more sense.

I had to ask at Target, then they had to go to the storeroom for ten minutes to get it. In fact, there were no Pros in the case at all, and the price still said $349.99.

These 'leaked' rumors just got target and MS a sale today!

Had to buy a new one. My first (previously, the one and only) 360 is now on its way back from MS after my very first RRoD. Going to give that console and all the cables and controllers from the new Pro to someone for a present.