On engadet they were showing fliers from ToysRUs and Walmart advertising the Xbox 360 premium for $349... it's a necessary move from Microsoft I think because they are losing ground quickly to the Wii.

i heard this aswell, $50 price cut. sad thing is i justt bought my 360 2 weeks ago

With my experience with Dell, I got a price match from them since they dropped $50 off of an Axim X51 I bought. You might be able to do that. I'd want to check it out and see.

Glad to see a price drop, but I wish they'd drop the price on some of the games. I had thought paying $49.99 for games was a lot, but now it's $59.99...some games (like Gears of War for example), have been out for a while but not seen any type of price drop at many places (because its selling so well at the existing price anyway)

yeah i was just about to say.. what about the games ?

I think they will drop the price as we near closer to the release of Halo 3. I still haven't decided if I will upgrade to the 360. To be honest, I'm perfectly content with my Xbox but more and more games are becoming exclusive 360. If I want to keep up with the games (like Halo 3) I guess I will probably have to.....

ya, they are loosing money to the wii and they have to drop. the games will stay the same though

Computerwiz2489 wrote:

On engadet they were showing fliers from ToysRUs and Walmart advertising the Xbox 360 premium for $349... it's a necessary move from Microsoft I think because they are losing ground quickly to the Wii.

And they are losing ground to the PS3 w/ its ercent price drop and its new 80gb model.

shaqwadecombo wrote:

Glad to see a price drop, but I wish they'd drop the price on some of the games. I had thought paying $49.99 for games was a lot, but now it's $59.99...some games (like Gears of War for example), have been out for a while but not seen any type of price drop at many places (because its selling so well at the existing price anyway)

Chances are good that if you're willing to pay a lot for a console, then you'd also be willing to pay a premium for next gen console games.
That's the idea anyway, PC games that are also avaliable on the 360 cost about $10 less.
You know what though? Just wait it out a year or two and it's guaranteed to price drop... though, I might exclude Halo 3 from that.

At least Gamestop/EBGames are now making a whole lot of money from used console games now... they've been selling games like Lunmines for $39.99 used and Advance Wars DS for $29.99...

Good news then .lol