Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you, the $199 Xbox 360. Offical Sept 7th, 2008

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http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=1618

That's right, the famous "Core Unit" 360 will go down by an amazing $80 drop. To be presented to you, the good people of North America at $199.99
 
To add more fuel to the fire, not only is the Core unit dropping, but it's two bigger brothers as well

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169116

Analyst Todd Greenwald recently called for a "real" Xbox 360 price cut following the price reduction of the 20GB Xbox 360, which (as it turned out) was simply a means of phasing out that particular SKU. Well, Greenwald may soon get his wish. Ars Technica is reporting that their reliable mole says a fairly significant price drop is coming in early September.
Here are the new 360 SKU prices according to Ars Technica:

Arcade (no hard drive) -- $199 (currently $279.99)
Pro (60GB) -- $299 (currently $349.99)
Elite (120GB) -- $399 (currently $449.99)

That would only be a $50 slash for the Pro and Elite SKUs, but getting the Xbox 360 Arcade under the Wii's price and at the $199 sweet spot for the holidays would be huge. Combine that price with a marketing campaign about the "new Xbox experience" and the difficulty in finding a Wii, and Microsoft could have a good formula for posting some big sales numbers in the last quarter of 2008.
 
Wow, I'd be pissed if I was one of those people who bought one for $600. Heh. $199? Thats still way more than what I paid for mine...
 
weaponepsilon said:
Wow, I'd be pissed if I was one of those people who bought one for $600.
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They were never at an MSRP of $600.
 
Zidart said:
MSRP =/= ebay.
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He never said it was MSRP. :/

He's saying that he would be pissed if he was one of the people who eBayed it for like $600 when it first came out.
 
Jack said:
He never said it was MSRP. :/

He's saying that he would be pissed if he was one of the people who eBayed it for like $600 when it first came out.
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Spot on, mate. Doesn't anyone remember how berserk people went went the ps2 came out? They were seriously selling for $1200 or more. Everytime a new one comes out, all the fan boys with ebay accounts go nuts to get the first one. Me, not quite so much. I buy 'em broken and fix em up. Just bought a Wii for $100...
 
weaponepsilon said:
Spot on, mate. Doesn't anyone remember how berserk people went went the ps2 came out? They were seriously selling for $1200 or more. Everytime a new one comes out, all the fan boys with ebay accounts go nuts to get the first one. Me, not quite so much. I buy 'em broken and fix em up. Just bought a Wii for $100...
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That's pretty good man. I guess it helps if you know how to fix game systems. I bought my Wii for $350 on eBay the first year it was out.
 
Jack said:
That's pretty good man. I guess it helps if you know how to fix game systems. I bought my Wii for $350 on eBay the first year it was out.
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Heh I won't even tell you what I got for my PS3 and 360. Buy 'em cheap, costs nothing to fix 'em...
 
I did the same as Jack, my first and only Ebay purchases. The Wii and Secret Rings was totally worth the 350 price tag (console only)
 
fhqwhgads said:
I did though, and then he brought up eBay to counter my point.
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There was no reason for you to bring up MSRP. He never even mentioned the acronym "MSRP".
 
Jack said:
There was no reason for you to bring up MSRP. He never even mentioned the acronym "MSRP".
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yes there's a reason, someone that values their money would most likely buy it the MSRP price instead of the over the top EBAY price >_>.
 
Jack said:
There was no reason for you to bring up MSRP. He never even mentioned the acronym "MSRP".
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To be fair, he never mentioned eBay either.
 
Zidart said:
yes there's a reason, someone that values their money would most likely buy it the MSRP price instead of the over the top EBAY price >_>.
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Don't put anything past Microsoft fans and new releases. Same with Nintendo and Sony fans. I payed way over MSRP for my Wii on eBay. That doesn't mean I don't value my money though.

fhqwhgads said:
To be fair, he never mentioned eBay either.
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You even said MSRP was never $600. So one could only assume...eBay.

Anyway. Stupid argument. Continue.
 
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/20/sources-xbox-360-price-cut-week-of-sept-7-60gb-299-elite-3/

Re-confirming it. Sept 7th, the price cut is offical. Tyvm RadioShack
 
http://kotaku.com/5041705/kmart-want-in-on-that-sweet-360-price-cut-action

Want more evidence? Kmart wants a slice of the price cut.
 
http://kotaku.com/5042272/best-buy-in-on-hot-steamy-360-price-cut-action

Best Buy is down with the price cut.
 
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