360 Arcade SKU gets price increase to £159.99

“Anyway, I am sure they would not do this unless necessary, and the £ is really not that strong anymore.”

It’s the same as the dollar as it was before the credit crunch though, but they’re both worse off against the euro. It should be euroland getting this kicking, not blighty iyswim. I guess it proves MS europe is based in mainland europe or they’re lying to us about the currency thing.

What’s all this noise!?

Ooh!

Price rise, eh?

Probably because the Pro is becoming the Arcade, the Elite is becoming the Pro, and the Arcade is getting canned.

I’m inclined to think Giga has it right on this; that the *lowest 360 SKU* is going to be £160, and people are presuming this means an Arcade price hike.

Y’see; that’d make sense, both in standard price reduction and with what’s going on in the world economies.

Otherwise it’s fucking insane.

They did it so they can cut it again when Sony announces their PS3 price cut.

“The English is a horrendously weak currency right now (that’s what you get for your “independence” bullshit, Britain), so they’re just making up for the deficit.”

O’Connor just take a fucking day off for once. Sterling – which any moron knows is a British currency – is about eighteen per cent higher against both the US Dollar and the Euro on 2009 lows (March and January respectively). Where were the spring price increases?

Take your “independence bullshit” bullshit elsewhere.

Hmm… I was expecting Microsoft to have issued a ‘correction’ to this by now. Maybe there’s something in it after all? The silly sods.

If you think this is expensive, just wait for hyper-inflation. It’s coming. Bread £10 per loaf.

I think people from UK will totally disagree on this. Pricing like this seems likes it’s for people who are very wealthy, lazy and impatient. I’d rather spent my money on purchasing Aion this september rather than this.