Arcade 360 not receiving any price cut?

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Arcade 360 not receiving any price cut?

Posted Jul 12th 2008 10:15PM by Terrence Stasse
Filed under: News

Since it's been pretty much confirmed that the 20GB 360 is going to be getting a price cut down to $299.95, we hoped that the Arcade SKU would be getting a similar price cut. In light of the rumors of a 60GB HDD SKU though, we did speculate the price drop was simply to clear shelves of the older 20GB units and that the future 60GB unit wouldn't debut at $299.99.

While that could all still be proven wrong, as more info comes in it seems to be the most likely scenario. Thanks to a tip from our good buddies over at ps3fanboy we've got an advertisement from Circut City that seems to confirm that by the weekend of July 27 the Arcade unit will not have gotten a price cut. Makes you think about why someone would buy that over an HDD equipped unit at $299.99; unless of course they'll all be off the shelves by then ....

Only time will tell, but look for E3 to clear up a lot of these uncertainties.

Tags: arcade, hardware, price-cut, price-drop

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-12-2008 @ 10:29PM

AJ said...

June 27th?

7-12-2008 @ 10:32PM

Terrence Stasse said...

Sorry about that guys, got the date right, got the month wrong.

S'what I get for flipping around between tabs so much; I really hate Pre-E3.

7-12-2008 @ 11:17PM

Dwag said...

They're obviously going the PS3 route and clearing all those old chip and 20GB 360s so they can bring in the 60Gb at the 20Gbs price which I believe will be released aroung the same time they plan on releasing the Standalone 60Gb HDD. Elite still needs to drop to 400 cause I don't think anyone is buying those at the price it is at now.

7-13-2008 @ 1:37AM

Fierod said...

God dang I just bought my 20gb -_-
WHY ME WHY ME!!!

7-13-2008 @ 2:09PM

Stranger said...

Or is Sony going the 360 route?

Or is redesigning a console's guts in order to reduce both cost and price just a natural part of every hardware generation cycle dating back to the 16-bit era?

7-12-2008 @ 11:20PM

Ray42 said...

Hopefully this is MS phasing it out.

7-13-2008 @ 1:36AM

Fierod said...

Nothing to do with topic, but how much is CoD 4 right now?

7-13-2008 @ 11:35AM

Ninjakamster (PS360 FTW!) said...

The guys from PS3Fanboy are your buddies? ; )

I just bought the Arcade, so I wish I could buy the 20gb HDD for $20. $100 is just ridiculous. Sony I admit does some bullshit things but Microsoft wanting $100 for the WiFi Adapter and 20gb HDD......come on.

7-13-2008 @ 2:06PM

Stranger said...

After you take what Microsoft claims it costs them to produce those 20G hard drives you'd think the Arcade SKU would be down to like $50 by now...

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