Xbox 360 Price Cut
20GB Console to be $299.99 in Canada
By Frank Fennelli - July 13th, 2008
Microsoft has once again dropped the price of the Xbox 360, bringing the Pro 20GB unit down to a wallet-friendly $299.99 CDN. The move comes with another official announcement: by August, the 20GB edition will be phased out and replaced with a 60GB version of the console which will sell for $349.99.
Interestingly enough, the Elite 120GB version of the console will not have a drop in price, meaning it will still be priced at $449.99 - or in other words, $100 more than the 60GB SKU.
At this point, many gamers have already hopped aboard the high-definition console bandwagon, but for those who haven’t, it seems like Microsoft is trying to say “now’s the time.”
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3 responses so far:It’ll be interesting to see if they are saying now is the time regarding “jumping in” to the next gen or if it is time to help them unload excess units right before new revisions and blue-ray augmentations make an appearance.
$50 less for an old sku that is very likely to fail on you? I don’t think its worth it. So much for all those rumors about the MS price drop, huh? haha
Everyone gave Sony so much flak for this when they discontinued the 20 and 60gb skus, but at least the 60 was still an awesome deal because it was (and still is, imo) the best PS3 sku you could get!
It’ll be interesting to see if they’ll still have package deals for the 60GB version like they had with the 20. Personally, I’m glad I got my 360 when I did because it came with two games of decent quality.