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Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: idolminds on Monday, August 04, 2008, 10:50:06 AM
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Source (http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/08/01/mole-attack-360-price-cuts-on-all-hardware-in-september)
Arcade (no hard drive) to $199
Pro (60GB) to $299
Elite (120GB) to $399
The source has predicted a lot of things in the past that all ended up being true (NeoGaf thread had a list of them), so this is very possible.
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Obviously Microsoft sees 360 sales drying up and PS3 sales beginning to take off.
The 360 really needs a couple killer apps to stem the tide. Is Halo alone really enough anymore? XBLA is awesome, but I don't think it's enough to keep gamers away from the PS3.
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They finally caved in on the size of the HDD. They shot themselves in the foot by giving out only 13 GB of space, then expecting people to shell out $200 for the only available upgrade. With all the money they rake in from DLC, including Xbox original games and HD movies, something had to give.
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What I never got was that in most cases, 20 GB hdds are more expensive than larger hard drives, even when the 360 came out.
Only thing I can guess is some vendor or manufacturer had some huge stockpile they couldn't sell and MS got a nice discount. That or they were hoping to indirectly force people to shell out a ton of cash for an upgrade by only offering a small amount of space as Cobra seems to allude to.