XBox 360 price cut by €50 from tomorrow..

Basq

Rumours are circulating of an price-cut of the XBox 360 around Europe from tomorrow.

Engadget

sternn

Apparently its happening on the 14th of this month. But it now means that im not buying a second hand xbox premium, gona wait for this reduction

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=33808

ShaneU

According to Dutch retailer Bart Smit, the rumored price cut of the Euro Xbox 360 is happening. As previously speculated the Xbox 360 Elite has dropped from 549.95€ to 399.95€ , the Pro console (which includes Viva Pinata and Forza Motorsport 2) was lowered from 399.95€ to 299.95€ while the Arcade bundle is down from 279.95€ to 199.95€.

At 199.95€ the Xbox 360 Arcade would become the cheapest console of this generation in Europe, edging out the Nintendo Wii which retails for 249.95€. The Microsoft camp has stated that the key to better sales in 2008 is the European market, where Microsoft is forced to fend off the strong PlayStation brand awareness and the popularity of the Nintendo Wii. However, considering Xbox 360's popularity in the Western market we don't recommend North American buyers begin holding their breath for a price-drop just yet.

hottstuff

About time TBH.
About half of them will fail......:rolleyes:

Biro

You can get an Elite for the last couple of months in the UK for €400 at the current exchange rate, with a free game!

witnessmenow

^^^^

Not exactly all that cheap relative to other consoles?


Xbox kinda needs this price drop IMO

jimbob_jones

from www.majornelson.com

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Xbox 360 European price drop

It was just announced that starting this Friday, the price of the Xbox 360 in Europe will be dropping.

Let’s cut to the chase with the old and new prices*

Xbox 360 - was: €349.99 / £249.99 now: €269.99 / £199.99
Xbox 360 Elite - was: €449.99 / £299.99 now: €369.99 / £259.99
Xbox 360 Arcade – was €269.99 / £199.99 now €199.99 / £159.99
Again, these new prices will be effective in Europe from this Friday, March 14th.

corcaigh07

does anyone use memory cards for 360. 200 euro sounds excellent for the arcade pack and id only be using the 360 offline. 250 euro for Gta4 sounds good to me!

chavezychavez

jimbob_jones wrote: »

from www.majornelson.com

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Xbox 360 European price drop

It was just announced that starting this Friday, the price of the Xbox 360 in Europe will be dropping.

Let’s cut to the chase with the old and new prices*

Xbox 360 - was: €349.99 / £249.99 now: €269.99 / £199.99
Xbox 360 Elite - was: €449.99 / £299.99 now: €369.99 / £259.99
Xbox 360 Arcade – was €269.99 / £199.99 now €199.99 / £159.99
Again, these new prices will be effective in Europe from this Friday, March 14th.

Quick, everyone down to gamestop to trade in their current xbox, then on Friday buy an Elite for almost nothing. (As if they'd allow that)

Kiith

Whats the betting that we wont get them for that price. OR we'll get an "Amazing Price Drop" where the price stays the same and they throw in a ****ty game.

Its on the BBC site too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7288024.stm

cianr

corcaigh07 wrote: »

... 250 euro for Gta4 sounds good to me!

Ditto! Bought the PS2 primarily for GTA San Andreas and was really happy with it. If the 360 comes down in price enough Ill buy it + GTA 4. Fingers crossed!

ShiverinEskimo

Thank the Lord.

I was trying to decide between a 360 now and a new mobile later or a new mobile now and a 360 later.

My current mobile decided to break so I went with the new mobile. Nice one.

mossym

wonder what the deal will be now with a premium traded in for an elite...

ShiverinEskimo

Prob be similar to the current ones considering the premium is now also worth less so they'll give you less for it.

IrishHomer

Premium is reduced to day in Tesco and its with two good games on offer with new price and 25% back on Clubcard which technically makes it €199 including the 2 games Lost and some "War" game.

sternn

Sounds like a good deal in tesco. Do you think I should wait until tomorrow for the probable "reduction"?

Placebo

Guys is this 200 euro xbox, the premium that comes with harddrive and wireless controller?

[the basic one is CORE right?]

sternn

yeah, they are being reduced all around europe. but the tesco deal seems a great one!! Im going to ring them and find out about it now

MiloFoxburr

Placebo wrote: »

Guys is this 200 euro xbox, the premium that comes with harddrive and wireless controller?

[the basic one is CORE right?]

The Core model is gone

The €200 model is the Arcade edition which comes with a console, 256mb Memory Card, Wireless Controller and 5 XBLA games (Pac-Man Championship Edition, Uno, Luxor 2, Boom Boom Rocket and Feeding Frenzy)

sternn

IrishHomer wrote: »

Premium is reduced to day in Tesco and its with two good games on offer with new price and 25% back on Clubcard which technically makes it €199 including the 2 games Lost and some "War" game.

premium!!

sternn

going up to tesco now to buy one now

Placebo

SWEET JUST IN TIME FOR GTA 4 !!!!!!
excellent, so whats premiums short full no hdmi output?

sternn

just rang tesco in bray....they said they have xbox's...but the price is "around €360". I think i might just head up anyway. €199 including 25% off with club points seems almost too good to be true..

actually come to think of it, she may have said €260, which would take into account the 25% discount

TheDonMan

Placebo wrote: »

SWEET JUST IN TIME FOR GTA 4 !!!!!!
excellent, so whats premiums short full no hdmi output?

It has HDMI output - all the xbox 360 do now - but no HDMI cable and it also has a 20gb hard drive as opposed to the elite's 120gb.

mrcheese

are you tied into certain games with that offer? if so are the game sany good?

sternn

Was just at smyths in bray, and then tesco. These are the prices for the pro console.

Smyths: price now: €360
Smyths: price tomorrow: €280

Tesco: price now: €370
Tesco: price tomorrow: ??

tvnutz

Xtra-Vision deal from tomorrow is The Arcade at €199.99,Premium at €279.99 and Elite and €379.99.

Bundle deal of Premium console plus 4 games from this list: Halo 3,PGR4,Gears of War,Forza 2,Scene It and possibly something else for €299.99,Elite bundle would be €100 extra at €399.99

corcaigh07

4 games for an extra 20 snots is brilliant. not a big halo fan though nor forza, but very overrated in my eyes.

corcaigh07

4 games for an extra 20 snots is brilliant. not a big halo fan though nor forza, but very overrated in my eyes....

sternn

today is the day....going to check tesco, xtra vision and smyths. But am definately buying one today

TomPich

sternn wrote: »

today is the day....going to check tesco, xtra vision and smyths. But am definately buying one today

Yup me2 ! Gona check out Game in Blanch later !

sternn

€289.99 (for xbox 360 + gears of war) in smyths. Says offer only lasts until the 20th March.

IrishHomer

The new Xtravision Deal is very good.

It's the premium and a choice of 4 games all for €299.

Included in the choice are: Gears of War, PGR4, Forza2, Halo 3.

It's advertised on todays Indo.

TomPich

I just got mine.

All together i got an xbox 360 premium, Halo 3 and PES2008, came to 309.99

Good enough 4 me

EDIT : Got it from GAME in blanch. They dont have the new prices up yet, but i asked and you can purchase at the new prices, they just havent recieved the new adverts yet !

Gonzo

TomPich wrote: »

Yup me2 ! Gona check out Game in Blanch later !

Was just in Game Blanch and they still have the old prices. Its nearly 500 euro for an elite and 2 games.

TomPich

Gonzo wrote: »

Was just in Game Blanch and they still have the old prices. Its nearly 500 euro for an elite and 2 games.

Yup! I just got my 360 from there. You have to ask at the desk.

They havent had the new adverts sent through yet, but have all the prices in their system. So i just said, "give me a run down of your premium packages".

I think its 279.99 for a premium on its own.

Get back down there.

HMV in blanch have new prices but still a rip off in there.

niall2j

Anyone know if tesco has the xbox360 arcade @€;199 anywhere? Thx

Jet Black

Smyths have the premium for €199 which is very good considering the arcade is €199.

http://www.toys.ie/Shop_Product_Detail.aspx?pcode=C07119

niall2j

heymcflyx wrote: »

Smyths have the premium for €199 which is very good considering the arcade is €199.

http://www.toys.ie/Shop_Product_Detail.aspx?pcode=C07119

Thanks mate, I was looking for the Arcade version because I already have a launch premium console that has failed 3 times (2 RRoD and latest failure - non-RRoD, which means paying a repair fee for something which will undoubtedly fail again!). I was hoping to buy an Arcade console in Tescos with the 25% refund. Still, €199 for the pro is very decent...

Does anyone have any idea how much I might get for the hard disk and the HD AV cable on ebay? I have both from my old 360 and if i got anywhere near €50 for both of them then it would make real sense to pick one of these up tomorrow. Cheers,

Niall

jayteecork

Friend of mine picked up a PRO system in Zavvi today with Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, and Lost Odyssey for €295.
Not a bad purchase.

Supercell

heymcflyx wrote: »

Smyths have the premium for €199 which is very good considering the arcade is €199.

http://www.toys.ie/Shop_Product_Detail.aspx?pcode=C07119

Ohh, nice, think this may be the offer that puts me over the edge
Are the feckin rings of death sorted out on these boxes does anyone know?

CyberWaste

I got that ****ty 1 red light which means its either AV cable or xclamps or nana chip or something. Not the AV cable, I tired it, and its 150€ to get it fixed, and it will probably break in a few months again, and im already out of warrenty. So I might get the Elite as I heard it has got none of those problems like before as its different inside or something. Is that true?

Creamy Goodness

despite microsofts ****e policy to pay to play on hosted multiplayer games this price drop has tempted me to just think about buying a 360 elite.

Xyo

Just went in there now to get my Xbox premium for 199 and had the most amount of hassle ever. They tried to charge my 279 and I had to print of my reservation and show the general manager the website before I could get it. But I did get it

Placebo

whats difference between arcade and premium?

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/compare101.htm

is ths correct? i take it the middle one is premium
from original xbox.com site

The entry level “Xbox 360 Arcade” console gets a new ERP of £159.99, shaving £40 off the original ERP.

“Xbox 360”, with a 20GB hard drive and one wireless controller gets an ERP of £199.99, a saving of £50.

“Xbox 360 Elite”, with its massive 120GB hard drive ideal to store bucket-loads of media content downloaded from Xbox LIVE Marketplace as well as your own music, will have an ERP of £259.99, saving you £40 off the original ERP.

Maybe smyths have made the wrong price cut ! premium should still be around 280ish and arcade around 200 euros?

Placebo

Sorry, this product is currently unavailable.

DAMN they did change it,
its only core thats 200 euros

http://www.toys.ie/Shop_Product_Detail.aspx?pcode=C07605&qwSessionID=c7f76228-f11b-4d5e-88df-b673844eeef6

mickoneill30

Xyo wrote: »

Just went in there now to get my Xbox premium for 199 and had the most amount of hassle ever. They tried to charge my 279 and I had to print of my reservation and show the general manager the website before I could get it. But I did get it

I printed my reservation too from the email they sent me when I guaranteed it on their website. But the email doesn't show the price. It only guarantees availability. I didn't cop that until the manager in the Swords shop asked me to show him where it said €199 in the email. It had the correct part number alright but when he typed that in on his till it popped up €279. They've amended the website too so the offer (mistake) is gone.

So if you're guaranteeing anything on the Smyths website in future do a print of the webpage and not just the email they send you.

Placebo

Xyo how about passing the page around so
how do u reserve online? i dont see any option

Xyo

Yeh the email only gives a catalogue reference number, but I had the general manager reserve the xbox on the website for 199 and see what number he got. He got the premium for 279 but it said 199 on the site so he gave it to me

mickoneill30

On the plus side for Smyths. The official MS Xbox Controllers are €34.99. That's a good price. They're the MS ones. The only downside is they're in light blue or pink but still not a bad price.

toco123

mickoneill30 wrote: »

On the plus side for Smyths. The official MS Xbox Controllers are €34.99. That's a good price. They're the MS ones. The only downside is they're in light blue or pink but still not a bad price.

They couldn't charge more or some feen would sue MS and say "is it cause they're gay"

Pity bout Smyths taking down the Premium at €199