Will the Xbox go down in Jan?

NiSmO

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Lorax

Dunno about a price drop unlikely tho! Smyths are usually very good for the package deals.. You'd pick PGR3 up fairly cheap 2nd hand on boards or in game/smyths cos its an old game, prob get it for €15-€20

coadyj

original xbox or 360??

NiSmO

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abetarrush

Current Smyths offers
XB360 Prem Pack
Plus one of the following:
Fifa 07
Lego Star Wars
WWE SD 07
2 Selected EA Games
Call of Duty 3**
Gears of War**
[**Bundled with console only]
€409.99

360 + PGR3, Arcade Classics and an Xtra Wireless controller + Any game you want
€469.99

Loyalty card comes with all offers

Our Post-Xmas sale starts either on Wed or the following monday, wit up to 50% off selected games

Should be good, check it out

flogen

Completely off the top of my head, but I'd venture a guess that any price drop will coincide with either the PS3 launch or the summer holidays... wouldn't be entirely shocked if it happened in January, but I wouldn't be banking on it at all.

My theory is that, rather than cut the RRP on the two models they'll just drop the 20gb one down to the core price, end the core sku and bring in a new "premium" model with a 60gb HDD and/or the HD-DVD player bundled... that said a €100 price cut on the 20gb model is probably a bit too ambitious to expect too.

mcgovern

Doubt there will be a price drop anytime soon, as Mircrosoft have said, those who want a PS3 enough to queue all day will try buy a PS3 regardless of X360 price, and the fact that we will probably get about 10 for the whole country in March (if indeed it launches in Europe in March), means it won't be competition for a good while.

colmranger

I think anyone who wants a cheap xbox 360 should wait til next week.

I bet Tesco will run the 25% off electrical again during the January sales. When that offer ended last Sunday night my local Tesco still had loads left over and they will have to shift them during January.

Omnipresence

Yeah hang on for Tesco ... that was one of best deals... surely should happen again... but be certain of some form of better package deals or price drop around time of PS3 launch... be surprising if anything until then ...

NiSmO

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Moojuice

Jervis Street Tesco had some when I was last in, a week or two ago.

xanthor

NiSmO wrote:

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Finglas (Clearwater) Dublin 11 and Clarehall Dublin 17 are the two biggest i know of around those parts.

projectmayhem

i know that in jan xtra-vision are giving free games with a 360, rather then lowering the price. the only game i remember was pgr

flogen

colmranger wrote:

I think anyone who wants a cheap xbox 360 should wait til next week.

I bet Tesco will run the 25% off electrical again during the January sales. When that offer ended last Sunday night my local Tesco still had loads left over and they will have to shift them during January.

That didn't include consoles, did it?
As far as I'm aware outlets only make a 10-15% mark up on console hardware; Tesco aren't going to sell at a loss.

Wertz

flogen wrote:

That didn't include consoles, did it?
As far as I'm aware outlets only make a 10-15% mark up on console hardware; Tesco aren't going to sell at a loss.

It included consoles...got a 360 premium and GoW for €337 last week.

As for them selling at a loss, I think they've struck some deal with M$ or something...~€110 off a console is a big hit in the margins.

RuggieBear

Wertz wrote:

It included consoles...got a 360 premium and GoW for €337 last week.

As for them selling at a loss, I think they've struck some deal with M$ or something...~€110 off a console is a big hit in the margins.

i'm still kicking myself for missing this deal

eirebhoy

Tesco were actually selling it at 50% in the first weekend of this month. 25% off and another 25% back on your clubcard.