Xbox 360 Gets Official Price Drop In Australia

51 responses to “Xbox 360 Gets Official Price Drop In Australia”

1. 

   chuloopa

   October 3, 2012 at 9:57 am

   This is brilliant news for me after my old 360 red ringed after 3 years of loyal service.
   I’ve been waiting for a price drop to get a new one, and i’m glad to see i now get one! 😀

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   1. 

      Me

      October 3, 2012 at 1:00 pm

      You call 3 years loyal service? Mine died after 5 and i was pretty pissed. I ended up buying a 360 Slim 4Gb Kinect package. Sold everything except the console and not only made my money back but an actual decent profit.

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2. 

   morkai

   October 3, 2012 at 9:58 am

   Now I just need to wait for my 120Gb Elite from 2008 to kick the bucket and I might partake… Or, considering that I haven’t been online with it in close to 6 months and it’s largely gathering dust due to playing most games on PC now, I might not.

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3. 

   notoriousr

   October 3, 2012 at 10:01 am

   Genuinely surprised that the new 12GB PS3 wasn’t $249 (at most). That’s a really nice price point for a 360, and with a Wii U coming out, Sony hasn’t got much going for it in the coming holiday season.

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   1. 

      shepard

      October 3, 2012 at 10:13 am

      Yep. They should have dropped the price when they launched the new, new slim but i suspect they might be close enough to taking losses on it already at the current price point and they want to make money on each hardware unit sold? Do people know if Sony is still selling hardware at a loss or at a profit?

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   2. 

      thom

      October 3, 2012 at 10:51 am

      I don’t think Sony can afford to. None of their divisions have turned a profit for like four years.

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4. 

   Shadow13th

   October 3, 2012 at 10:05 am

   Last Christmas I picked up a 250GB with Kinect and two packed in games for $299 from EB Games, that’s better than any of these deals

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   1. 

      Husky

      October 3, 2012 at 11:35 am

      And I got a 4GB console from JB for $149. Xmas deals always beat price drops.

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   2. 

      Spoons

      October 3, 2012 at 5:43 pm

      But these aren’t deals are they? They’re permanant price drops.
      So when the xmas deals do come along, the prices will get smashed even more.

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5. 

   phlaiman

   October 3, 2012 at 10:09 am

   As a 360 owner, if I were in the market right now, between PS3 and 360 I would pick PS3. It is clearly much better value.

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   1. 

      lanky_mikey

      October 3, 2012 at 10:21 am

      I would pretty much make the switch for PS Plus alone :S

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   2. 

      pewpewmcgoo

      October 3, 2012 at 11:25 am

      I just had to make this decision, and PS3 won hands down.

      xBox’s segmenting functionality needlessly into paid subscriptions was the big reason, followed by PSN+ and then the whole BluRay thing.

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6. 

   lanky_mikey

   October 3, 2012 at 10:12 am

   I’ve wanted to upgrade my 20GB Pro Console for several months now (Only 1 RROD refurbishment). $199 + HD from ozgameshop is looking very tempting.

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   1. 

      dyslexic_dev

      October 3, 2012 at 11:33 am

      What’s the ozgameshop deal?

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      1. 

         blackhawks

         October 3, 2012 at 11:46 am

         I think he meant just the hard drive from OZGS. That’s a pretty good price though. If I didn’t have an Xbox, I’d get one now. Just wish Sony would have dropped the price on the ps3.

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            dyslexic_dev

            October 3, 2012 at 1:37 pm

            oh damn, I was hoping there was an even better deal. My xbox red ringed the over day, not really keen on spending $100 to get it fixed for a 3rd time.

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7. 

   Duskblayde

   October 3, 2012 at 10:17 am

   Right! Buy 4GB Xbox 360 console, and then find myself a copy of Tales of Vesperia and a few other select titles!! … sort of wishing I purchased it when it was $150 at Hardly Normal a while back.

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8. 

   Walt

   October 3, 2012 at 10:35 am

   $149 for the Kinect is still a rip off!

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   1. 

      jordaanm

      October 3, 2012 at 11:22 am

      At what price do you suggest they sell their without-competition motorised 3D body tracker and voice recognition device?

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      1. 

         Walt

         October 3, 2012 at 3:57 pm

         Given its poor market penetration and gimmicky premise, they should be selling at $99 to get them in homes and get people using them. Why do you think the Wii sold so well? Low price point encouraged people to try the gimmick, even if they don’t use it now. At this stage, all Kinect is good for is tracking people try to dance to poor choreography.

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         1. 

            Jonathan Cox

            October 3, 2012 at 4:55 pm

            Agreed – Kinect does nothing and most of the time I have to unplug it as the game dialogue messes up the game through voice recognition

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         2. 

            jordaanm

            October 4, 2012 at 12:45 pm

            “Poor Market Penetration”?
            Are you aware that Kinect was the fastest selling electronic consumer device ever?

            There were something like 20million units sold, as of March this year. At that same point in time, the $99 Sony Move had sold 11million units.

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            1. 

               Nano

               October 6, 2012 at 2:25 pm

               LoL shot down Walt

9. 

   thom

   October 3, 2012 at 10:52 am

   Maybe my birthday…

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   1. 

      thom

      October 3, 2012 at 11:03 am

      Does anyone know if I can transfer my hdd from my 20gb elite easily? Or do I have to buy an additional third party cable?

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      1. 

         phlaiman

         October 3, 2012 at 11:11 am

         I actually thought you had to buy a 1st party (overpriced) cable

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      2. 

         os42

         October 3, 2012 at 11:17 am

         Depends on where you get it. I traded in for a 250GB 360 “stout” at Game around the time of the Kinect release, and they transferred all the stuff from my old 1st-gen 20GB to the new console in-store, without having to buy the cable. I’m sure if you get one at a games retailer (As opposed to HN or DSE), you should be able to get them to do the transfer for you. Best way to know for sure is to ask the shop you intend to buy from, I suppose.

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         1. 

            thom

            October 3, 2012 at 11:19 am

            Cheers!

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         2. 

            stu

            October 3, 2012 at 11:25 am

            That’s a really good thing to do. When I worked at EB we’d sell the cable for $25 then trade it back for $10. When someone would ask if it was possible to transfer their saves, the best spin I could put on it was “Keep all your data for fifteen dollars”.
            There’s no way my shop would have done it for them if there were dollars to be made.

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            1. 

               os42

               October 3, 2012 at 11:36 am

               Wow, really? Even more important to ask, then. I just assumed that most retailers that did trade-ins would have the cable on-hand – it’s not like it’s unlikely for the customer to want to keep their data…

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               stu

               October 3, 2012 at 12:11 pm

               Yeah, pretty much everyone upgrading their 360’s wanted to know if it was possible, and pretty much everyone was given the same spiel. We didn’t always have time to plug in people’s Xboxes and do it for them; but, to be honest, it was a product we could charge for which would otherwise have been a free “service”, and so it wasn’t done. It’s not like it was “against the rules” or anything, we just didn’t do it.

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               os42

               October 3, 2012 at 12:29 pm

               Not criticising, just surprised. I completely understand from a business perspective, as $15 on top of a $350 console isn’t really that big a deal to most people, especially to keep their data, and I’d imagine lots of people would go for it – I certainly would have.

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               stu

               October 3, 2012 at 3:10 pm

               Yeah man, pretty much. They came and went pretty quickly after a new console model was released.

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         jordaanm

         October 3, 2012 at 11:24 am

         Internally, it’s the same 2.5″ Sata HDD with the same formatting. If you wanted to, you could buy a $2 enclosure off eBay and turn your old HDD into a new one.

         Alternatively, if you’re game, you can put the raw HDD straight into the device. It’s a task to remove it, but otherwise it works fine.

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      4. 

         batguy

         October 3, 2012 at 12:44 pm

         I transferred the data between my old and new xbox with a 16GB USB stick. Worst case, you’ll have to do it in two batches.

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10. 

    roaringarse

    October 3, 2012 at 11:15 am

    The PS3 started making a profit in 2010, (4 yrs later) however the company as a whole has been losing money so I think that’s why they decided to pocket the cash on the cheaper new model and hope it returns Sony to profit.

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11. 

    stu

    October 3, 2012 at 11:28 am

    I’ve kind of wanted a new 360 for a while … my old 20gb model refuses to update these days, and I can’t take it online, so I’ve missed out on pretty much the last 2 years of exclusive 360 titles and 90% of what’s good on XBLA. A $299 250gb model is looking pretty attractive at the moment.

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12. 

    rib

    October 3, 2012 at 11:36 am

    $150 for a Kinect might be enough to encourage a few who didn’t get on the bandwagon early. Its an option for me and my partner who were looking a while back but couldn’t justify the investment.

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13. 

    Shpeshal Ed

    October 3, 2012 at 11:36 am

    So does the $399 price eventually apply to the Halo 4 LE console?

    PLEEEEEEASE?

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14. 

    NoTheMama

    October 3, 2012 at 11:49 am

    Still dont want one really!

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15. 

    Trex

    October 3, 2012 at 12:03 pm

    If Sony had of done this with the PS3 Id probably now own my first console since the PS1. Oh well I’ll just have to keep keeping an eye on the junk mail.

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16. 

    ace_aviator

    October 3, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    I don’t think I’ll get one for the sake of getting some exclusives, my XBox mates tell me Microsoft are continually greedy, in how further expenses appear after buying the console. Besides, Gears of War is the only interesting exclusive to me.

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    1. 

       thom

       October 3, 2012 at 12:36 pm

       If you can the machine with the hdd, the only further expense it xbox gold, which is admittedly a rip off. I personally think there are enough exclusives to make the 360 worth it, but I love shooters.

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       1. 

          ace_aviator

          October 3, 2012 at 2:19 pm

          It’s a very shooter-centric console, so it’s good for the shooter fan. But I’ve started to enjoy the freshness usually found in third-person games more, so I’m still a little unsure. Are there some other enjoyable third-person games, exclusive to the 360?

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          1. 

             seon

             October 3, 2012 at 4:22 pm

             Alan Wake and Alan Wake’s American Nightmare – Both started on the 360 before being released on the PC as well. For now, the 360 is the only console you can play through all 3 Mass Effect games – but that exclusivity will be up shortly with the trilogy release on the PS3 also. Fable 2 and 3 are 3rd person, but aren’t the shooters that you may be after.

             There are a bunch of cool arcade titles that are still exclusive to the 360, and the Forza series if you’re into driving games…

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             1. 

                ace_aviator

                October 3, 2012 at 7:42 pm

                Thanks for all the suggestions, I’ll have to check them out. I wonder if the PS3 version of the Mass Effect Trilogy will be able to link the first game to the sequels.

17. 

    shakah

    October 3, 2012 at 1:01 pm

    So guys how to replace the 4GB HARD DRIVE with a bigger hard drive?got any links for that?

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    1. 

       SimpleGeek

       October 3, 2012 at 1:41 pm

       You don’t. The 4 GB models have that flash memory built in. If you want more storage there is a slot for a hard drive on the bottom of the console (there’s a cover that comes off revealing the slot).

       Buy a 360 S hard drive from JB Hi-Fi (320 GB drives going for $119 last time I checked), insert it into your 360 and there you go. Simple.

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18. 

    SimpleGeek

    October 3, 2012 at 1:28 pm

    Great, just as I buy a new 360 from JB Hi-Fi they announce a price drop a few days later. FML.

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19. 

    thesorehead

    October 3, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    Been waiting for the “non-retarded” 360 to drop to the magic $250 since release. It’s coming close… and with Christmas sales it’ll come even closer!

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20. 

    tdub

    October 5, 2012 at 12:31 pm

    I believe there’s a simple reason for the price drop. The enquiry that’s going on into hardware and software price gouging in Australia.

    http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/tech-giants-may-be-forced-to-reveal-documents-20121004-2724s.html

    They’re about to have documents summoned

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