Australia joins Xbox 360 price cut

[poonda]

Hopefully Sony follows suit. I really want to get a ps3, but this makes it really hard. For the same price of the ps3 I can get the 360 pro and 4 games.

MICROSOFT is set to drop the price on its Xbox 360 games console in Australia in an effort to give the games machine a better shot at the Christmas market.

The fully-featured Xbox 360 Pro will drop from $649 to $579, while the stripped down "core" system drops from $499 to $399 - putting it on-par with Nintendo's $399 Wii.

The cuts make Sony's $999 PlayStation 3 the most expensive console in the Australian market by an even greater margin.

From AustralianIt news

[Wrathlon]

$1000 for any console is retarded. In fact over $500 for any console is retarded - the XBox Ill let slide because of the nature of actual upgrades to the system on the more expensive ones.

[poonda]

Hopefully the elite doesn't cost much more than $579.

[SperO]

hardly on par though The wii sells for 399 with a game nowadays

But definately a sexier price... they are already losing money on it how can they even afford it!!

[poonda]

they are already losing money on it how can they even afford it!!

Microsoft has very very very deep pockets. A few billion dollars loss now, but huge gains if crowned console king.

[rec]

Buy games for a 360? Sif do that.

[Wally]

lolbot

[Milenko]

Buy games for a 360? Sif do that.

Same goes for the PS3 :p

Is it still the case that you can't buy a 360 by itself in Australia?
Last I heard they were only vendoring Kinect bundles.

[mepm]

you have always been able to get them by themselves, its only the 4gb no hdd model that isn't available on its own

[Korny]

i have 2 xbox's, 2 ps3's, 1 Wii, 1 DSi, 1 PSP.........

i barely play any of them so i guess no more consoles for me

hahaa