Proof: $199 360 Arcade and a price cut on Sept 7th

And let me guess, the overpriced hard drives will still remain the same ridiculously high price?

Wow. Could get a refurb/used HD and be set to go for like 250.

weird, my Best Buy had an add for the 199$ ones today, wonder if it was a mistake.

Uhh over here in Canada an Xbox arcade already costs 199, pros, 299, etc., so does that mean we will get even MORE price drops? That would be awesome :P

Well if its a hoax. It's an expensive hoax, because thats a screen running on a mainframe computer. Which I highly doubt your average person has, unless that person happens to own a major corporation.

I know Kohl's uses mainframe applications like that for a lot of their stuff. I don't know if Kohl's sells Xbox 360's

I'm pretty sure they confirmed, or at least rumored a price cut for hard drives a while ago, including a sort of xbox live bundle for the 60 gig.

Any way, this is great news! 199$ for the arcade sounds like a pretty good price. Remember that analyst stating the 360 needed a real price drop? Well here it is.

Now if they would release IPTV for it then I could get a second for the other tube.

I love the new pricing if this is to be 100% locked and confirmed, BUT I still advocate the entire scrapping of the Arcade SKU. Who is buying these things? It only hampers development teams for allowing larger games to cache to the HD.

Who cares? Will there be a HARD DRIVE price drop, so I can get the 120gig for my 360?

I don't think the Arcade SKU should ever get scrapped. Speaking as an early adopting gamer and media center fan that bought premium 360 and have recently taken the 120gb plunge (sure it was expensive but if you look around you can find some pretty good deals), the prospect of this low price SKU becoming a cheap ass media center extender as well as a gaming machine to boot for the parents or kids bedroom makes this a possitively droolworthy option for people like me. Just lock and load the old 20gb drive (that's currently a paperweight) onto the newly bought Arcade system and your ready to rock. Sure I would love too go and buy an Elite but that's just a little hard justifying spending that much and that would still result in me having a spare 20gb drive.

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I don't think the Arcade SKU should ever get scrapped. Speaking as an early adopting gamer and media center fan that bought premium 360 and have recently taken the 120gb plunge (sure it was expensive but if you look around you can find some pretty good deals), the prospect of this low price SKU becoming a cheap ass media center extender as well as a gaming machine to boot for the parents or kids bedroom makes this a possitively droolworthy option for people like me. Just lock and load the old 20gb drive (that's currently a paperweight) onto the newly bought Arcade system and your ready to rock. Sure I would love too go and buy an Elite but that's just a little hard justifying spending that much and that would still result in me having a spare 20gb drive.

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Well lets see 200.00 360 or impossible to find Wii? Well As a Wii owner, 20 gig 360 owner and 40 gig PS3 owner like one of the gents said a HDD drop on the 120gb drive would be nice, at least the PS3 lets me buy a drive from New Egg.

lotta Arcades getting bought this holiday season

i want that 120 gb hd to go down in price! i can't wait to install me some games on my pro.

If this is true, I'm all over the new 60GB. my HDMI-less 20GB needs a bigger HDD and I would like to have my DVD's upscaled with HDMI even though my tv does a decent job on some movies. Plus, the new jasper mobo will be out, what a steal. i paid $350 for my pro when it was $400 and thought that was a steal. I'll be buying a 60GB this fall if this is true...

wait, if the arcade is $199 and the elite is $399.
and the 120 gb hard drive is $179.

Someone at MS can't do math.

Something doesn't seem right here.

There would be no advantage to getting the new 60GB unit, as one could easily add the hard drive later and still be paying a total of $300 (60GB hard drive will be $99, correct?). Plus, you would also have an additional 256mb card.

And, if you added a 120GB drive, this brings your total to $350. That's much cheaper than the Elite.

I realize you get the "black" and HDMI, but seriously...these rumors are certainly not inline with their current pricing hierarchy.

In addition to having no hard drive, the Arcade also doesn't come with an HD (component) cable, or a headset. It only comes with the composite cable, unlike the Pro and Elite, which include component and/or HDMI cables respective. So buying the Arcade and planning to upgrade to the 60GB by buying a drive will still put you without HD video or a way to chat online. Not that either is terribly expensive, but it does add up.

I say "go pro."

ahh man still waiting for the next one in europe so i can buy another one=D

With no Blu-Ray player, inferior disc media, and overpriced online, that's closer to the price the console should be. I may actually purchase another 360 if this rumor proves to be true.

I love my elite. glad to see the price going down so more and more people can buy it.

This is going to be sweet! I had one, it broke, I sold it. Now, I've grown fond of the old white loud box and want it back. I'll be there for the arcade since I still have my HDD. Too bad i'll be swamped with school work.

so when are we going to start seeing some preview ads like we did last time?

@Ryan

Yeah, all i want to do is play 360 games. again! The arcade is pretty smart...you can upgrade it as time goes by.