A major retailer has told the Hollywood Reporter that the Premium Xbox 360 (20 GB) will be dropping in price to $299. The $50 price drop is set to take place right before E3 and will undercut the 40 GB PS3 price by $100.
In most cases, I really don’t like running Rumortoids, but the Hollywood Reporter did call the last Xbox 360 price drop just a couple of weeks before Microsoft made the price drop official in August of last year. Plus, there are also the ads from Kmart and RadioShack showing the Xbox 360 as $299, so it really looks like the price drop is going to happen.
Think this is going to help Microsoft push more Xbox 360s this holiday season? Will this finally force Nintendo to drop the Wii's price? How awesome is the header picture?
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5:07 PM on 06.30.2008
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Dexter: Where'd you buy it at? Probably can get the price difference back (Costco, Target does that).
Hamza, I really like the picture.
What a win/win blog!
@Heretic
Hark, do I detect some sarcasm in ye tone? Very lull full m'boy very lull full! Let us drink our ale and have a night, if any a night, with the wenches!
I'll touch it!
Frontpage that shit
Totally awesome.
Go, Microsoft! GO!
i agree. I will stay away from the 360 until the matter of the RRoD is solved for good without "visits to the doctor".
It must happen this weekend.
Until then, f**k off! I'm not paying you $180 for a pathetic, 120 GB, proprietary hard drive when an 80 GB, 2.5" hard drive goes for $60 on NewEgg!
I don't see any shark. I do see an invisible kung-fu panda.
too bad i already have one.
but the weird thing is that it is followed by "(Refurb)" even though it is in the "new" systems department. Most of us working their believe its ex-broken consoles that got shipped to soft and had them repaired and now are reselling them on the cheap.
ill try to get a cell phone pic of it on my c-blog or something
any gamestop refurbed sku is listed as 909XXX so its def not just a cheaper one that we refurbed.