Confirmed: 60GB Xbox 360 and $50 price-cut on outgoing 20GB bundle

by Xav de Matos { Jul 13th 2008 at 4:55AM }

At this rate our Bingo cards will be filled before Microsoft takes the stage on Monday morning! Microsoft has finally confirmed the much-talked about rumors of a $50 price-cut to the 20GB Xbox 360 Premium bundle ($299.99 in US and Canada) and introduced a new bundle outfited with a 60GB HDD -- set to replace the outgoing 20GB model. The 60GB model will retail for $349.99 while the Arcade and Elite bundles will remain at the current price-point of $279.99 and $449.99 respectively.

For those keeping score at home with your official X3F E3 Prediction Bingo Card, you can mark off the Xbox 360 Price-cut, the new Xbox 360 SKU, a 60GB HDD and the Too Human E3 XBLM Demo squares. It's a shame those weren't all in a line together. It's almost as if we planned it that way!

[via Joystiq]

Tags: 60-gb, 60gb, price-cut, sku, xbox-360-premium, xbox-360-price-cut, xbox-360-pro

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

SonyPS3Sucks @ Jul 13th 2008 4:59AM

But wait on Amazon.. they have Elites for 399.99 price drop!

Xav de Matos @ Jul 13th 2008 5:01AM

That's their own deal, not an official price-cut.

SadisticHam @ Jul 13th 2008 5:17AM

I don't see why this is being done, I've never come close to running out of room and I have a 20gig.

..Although perhaps that's because I'm from the UK it might be different for America..but this seems a bit needless to me.

Mike @ Jul 13th 2008 12:17PM

For you knuckleheads that say this is "needless"... just because YOU don't have a need for it doesn't mean the rest of us don't. All those map packs, arcade downloads, movies, TV shows, etc. add up fast. Apparently you people never download a thing.

Alexander @ Jul 13th 2008 4:14PM

Arcade and dlc don't add up that fast unless you have a big collection of games. Outside of America the movie/music/tv show collections are pathetic, there's barely anything.

imhotep @ Jul 13th 2008 6:15AM

i don't get it, wheres the price drop exactly? you are basically giving us a discount on outgoing hardware. i doubt the conversion from 20 to 60 is costing you any more money. i mean come on, your basically pulling a Sony on us!

STEVENMPOO7 @ Jul 13th 2008 6:27AM

as SadisticHam stated this is "needless". I live in the states and i have never been that close to use the entire 20 GB HDD.

MS better bring motion sensor technology and some surprises, to keep 360 in top spot :D

Cameron Adams @ Jul 13th 2008 6:38AM

Your simply getting more for your money.

Gamertag: GOPAL892005 @ Jul 13th 2008 7:14AM

i've used 50GBGB of my 120GB harddrive :p

mosty on Video's i wanna keep - around 35GB used is Video.

mattclarkie @ Jul 13th 2008 7:31AM

20Gb runs out quickly if you have videos and demos on the drive.

Personally I think MS should drop the arcade, or keep the arcade spec with a 20GB HDD. No chrome, no component cable, no headset but a 20GB HDD.

Xyndra @ Jul 13th 2008 7:40AM

I wonder if the new 60gig models will have the same falcon board as the 20gig models.

I'd buy a 60gig if I could have less RROD incidents.

mattclarkie @ Jul 13th 2008 7:41AM

All 360s manufactured in 2008 should have the Falcon, and being a new SKU it should be Falcon, unless they are swapping the HDD on old stock they have lying around it should be 99% guaranteed to be Falcon.

ryan @ Jul 13th 2008 9:25AM

actually they'll have the new Jasper.

Xyndra @ Jul 13th 2008 9:16AM

My guess is that the August 60gig will have the Jasper board in it.

Maverick Saturn @ Jul 13th 2008 9:23AM

How is this anything but good :)

tan @ Jul 13th 2008 9:24AM

ahh
they really need to destroy the arcade!

just keep the 20gb, 60gb and 120

and make the elite less than a ps3 ?

in the uk (any maybe europe) i know the elite is around 80$ less than a ps3

the 20gb is about 200$ less!

and you dont even want to know how cheap the arcade is...

even less than a wii!

Gamertag: GOPAL892005 @ Jul 13th 2008 9:47AM

if Microsoft can make the Motion Control work as well as the Wii & have loads of games/developers on board with it [maybe get the most successfull 3rd party Wii games ported] - than the X360 really has a fighting chance.

i've played the Wii & i'm not too into the whole motion controled games & lack of precision - maybe its just that i'm a graphics whore :p i guess motion c. on the X360 could sort that out :)

joey @ Jul 13th 2008 11:02AM

I don't get it.

MS need the 299 price point.
but the 60 gb is going to replace the old price. ridiculous.

I predict they'll drop the price fo 60gb to 299 by holiday.

tan @ Jul 13th 2008 1:04PM

they need to drop the elites price.

because its way overpriced right now..

only in the states though

cranium @ Jul 13th 2008 2:34PM

whoops, just sent this in as a tip. far too late. my mistake. anyway..

if microsoft is announcing this now they must have much more impressive news to unveil tomorrow

Dwag @ Jul 13th 2008 4:53PM

Built in Wi-Fi will screw everyone who bought a 360 early over bu it does make sense why introduce a 60Gb at the same price unless it has something special inside?

nikosokin @ Jul 13th 2008 5:57PM

Can anyone tell me...

Will the 60GB have built-in WiFi? I don't have a current-gen console yet, and don't have ethernet all over my house, and don't really want to buy the Elite because it's overpriced.

Will the 60GB have built-in WiFi?

kvp @ Jul 14th 2008 1:10AM

any word on how much the 60 gig HDD will sell for alone? if itll be sold separately?

Dralthi @ Jul 14th 2008 1:02PM

I was wondering that myself. I hope they sell the 60GB HDD separately as well. I'd like to upgrade to that instead of the ridiculously overpriced 120GB HDD.

bus33boy @ Jul 15th 2008 5:37AM

Ditto on the "I want to buy a 60Gig" comments.

I'm HOPING that MS is going to be reasonable with the price ($170 for 120 Gig? My shiny ass!) in an attempt to get them onto consoles. With Netflix, DLC, and more overall content, There's more crap for me to buy (= profits) and I won't buy it if I can't put it anywhere.

C'mon MS -- 60 gig at $60-75 will sell. You get people with more space, and we'll buy more crap. We're good for the buying crap part . . . just make it workable!