Microsoft to lower the Xbox 360 to 20,000 yen or less from September 11

The other day at GIGAZINEThere is a possibility that Xbox 360 will be cut, so you should not buy it yetAccording to the report of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Microsoft said that it will cut the Xbox 360 sharply from September 11th.

It seems that it will be able to get Xbox 360 at a price less than 20,000 yen, which is less than the cheapest Nintendo Wii among next generation game machines.

Details are as follows.
Microsoft, "Xbox 360" 30% cut price cut 20,000 yen

According to this article, Microsoft is said to cut prices for Xbox 360 from 11th September.

The price reduction target will be all three Xbox 360s currently on sale, of which the most inexpensive "arcade" not equipped with HDD will be lowered from current 27,800 yen to 19,800 yen. In addition, it is said that "Standard" model and "Elite" of the top model will be cut by 5000 ~ 8000 yen.

Although it is the Xbox 360 arcade model which became the most inexpensive among next generation game machines, since Xbox 360 can not take a method of buying 2.5 inch HDD for laptop computer like PS 3 and changing it by oneself,120,000 yen 18,000 yenAnd it is necessary to purchase a very expensive genuine HDD, so if you use it like saving the trial version of the game, it would be better to buy a standard model with HDD or "elite" maybe.

· 17:25 postscript
An official announcement took place from Microsoft. After September 11th, the Xbox 360 elite will be 39,800 yen, the standard model will be equipped with 60GB HDD, it will be 19,800 yen, the arcade will be 19,800 yen. In addition, 120GB of genuine HDD which was 18,000 yen will also drop to 15,750 yen.

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