Topic: Possible 360 price drop in Sept

[idolminds]

Source

Arcade (no hard drive) to $199
Pro (60GB) to $299
Elite (120GB) to $399

The source has predicted a lot of things in the past that all ended up being true (NeoGaf thread had a list of them), so this is very possible.

[scottws]

Obviously Microsoft sees 360 sales drying up and PS3 sales beginning to take off.

The 360 really needs a couple killer apps to stem the tide.  Is Halo alone really enough anymore?  XBLA is awesome, but I don't think it's enough to keep gamers away from the PS3.

[Cobra951]

They finally caved in on the size of the HDD.  They shot themselves in the foot by giving out only 13 GB of space, then expecting people to shell out $200 for the only available upgrade.  With all the money they rake in from DLC, including Xbox original games and HD movies, something had to give.

[scottws]

What I never got was that in most cases, 20 GB hdds are more expensive than larger hard drives, even when the 360 came out.

Only thing I can guess is some vendor or manufacturer had some huge stockpile they couldn't sell and MS got a nice discount.  That or they were hoping to indirectly force people to shell out a ton of cash for an upgrade by only offering a small amount of space as Cobra seems to allude to.