Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | 21:22 BST
Source blows all 360 price drop details, Elite at £199 on Friday
A trusted UK retailer has confirmed to VG247 that there is indeed a price cut coming to Xbox 360 and that the Pro is on the way out, starting this coming Friday, August 28.
The Elite-price will drop from £239.99 to £199.99 – the same as a Wii – with the Pro 60Gb being discontinued.
Our source says the Arcade will remain the “entry level hardware”, but the current console bundle with Sega Superstars Tennis will finish. The new Arcade SKU will launch at the suggested price of £159.99 without any software.
GameStation will be launching an Elite bundle at £199.99 with COD 4 Modern Warfare and Fight Night Round 4.
As for trade-ins, you can get an Elite for £99.99 if you put in a Wii or a 60Gb 360. Should you decide to trade-in a 160gb PS3, you’ll get the Elite for £19.99.
An announcement is expected to be made by Microsoft tomorrow, according to earlier reports.
24 comments
#1
Patrick Garratt
26/08/09, 9:04 pm
*cough*
#2
Zarckan
26/08/09, 9:07 pm
Hmm de ja vu
#3
Patrick Garratt
26/08/09, 9:10 pm
Admin accident. Sorry about that.
#4
Galactic_Barret
26/08/09, 9:11 pm
Whoa, MS is playing this quite intelligently. Why cut the price in the US? Your main competition is the PS3, you already have a sizeable lead here, let them duke it out for a while.
Keep the price lower in some of the “weaker” territories, it won’t make a difference which is the better deal. One is cheaper than the other, period. Freaking brilliant.
#5
Joe Anderson (wotta)
26/08/09, 9:13 pm
There we go. Game on quite literally.
#6
Withnail
26/08/09, 9:14 pm
Before
360 without HDD: £129
360 with HDD: £169 (or £239)
After
360 without HDD: £159
360 with HDD: £199
Interesting “price drop”.
#7
Patrick Garratt
26/08/09, 9:36 pm
Sorry for the lost comments. Sorry sorry sorry.
#8
reask
26/08/09, 9:41 pm
#9
No_PUDding
26/08/09, 10:38 pm
Cool, it’s getting an increasingly good value system.
#10
Soong
26/08/09, 11:02 pm
@Withnail: I wouldn’t be surprised if the new £159 Arcade SKU included a HDD. Microsoft is serious about getting people online and convincing them to buy virtual tat. It would also explain the increase in price and the disappearance of the pro (which would become a bit useless and unnecessary if the Arcade SKU already came with a HDD)
#11
Lutz
26/08/09, 11:06 pm
Rumours are abound that the Elites will also be getting built in wireless too. New dev kits have it in for a start.
#12
G1GAHURTZ
26/08/09, 11:29 pm
Cool! Looks like this could be a good time to splash out on an HD setup, what with this being a bank holiday weekend and all.
#13
Psychotext
27/08/09, 12:16 am
“New dev kits have it in for a start.”
Interesting.
#14
Johnny Cullen
27/08/09, 12:16 am
PAT BROKE HIS OWN RULE! (unintentionally it has to be said)
BURN HIM!
#15
Cort
27/08/09, 12:22 am
Wii RRP is £179.99, not £199.99, according to the several sites I’ve looked at.
EDIT: Looks like Amazon et al have it wrong. It is £199 RRP.
#16
Psychotext
27/08/09, 12:30 am
They increased the RRP recently, and retailers on the whole decided to eat the difference.
#17
Cort
27/08/09, 12:34 am
But Amazon etc should still show the correct RRP, then their price (showing the discount) beside it. Strange: you’d think they would want the credit for selling over twenty squids below the RRP, rather than the three or so it is shown as at the moment.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0007UATDG/ref=s9_simz_gw_s0_p63_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0F4XDP46HAQ95NYFV879&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467198433&pf_rd_i=468294
#18
Cort
27/08/09, 12:35 am
^^ Dammit. How do you disguise a URL with your own text?
#19
Psychotext
27/08/09, 12:47 am
You type text just without the spaces.
Oh bollocks, that works on the forum side. lol
#20
freedoms_stain
27/08/09, 12:55 am
A little bit of HTML is all ya need Cort see here
#21
stvw74
27/08/09, 7:17 am
Hmm ..
Trade in your 160Gb PS3 & get an Elite for £20 ..
er, NO THANKS ..
although the price drop is welcomed, I can’t see myself buying a dust collector anytime soon
#22
Jadeskye
27/08/09, 7:29 am
@ stvw74, And the Award for most obvious troll goes to…
#23
Blerk
27/08/09, 8:26 am
So your ‘trusted retailer’ is GameStation, then?
To be honest, these don’t sound particularly great – the arcade ‘deal’ especially is rubbish unless it’s suddenly sporting a chunk of hardware that it didn’t have before. The removal of the Pro option is just bizarre.
#24
tonynibbles
27/08/09, 9:32 am
I wonder if they’ll reduce the price of that £60 wireless adaptor, or sell bigger hard drives?
Cough.
Still, a bit of competition on Slim launch day is good