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Microsoft: We Keep Selling The Hard-Drive-Free Arcade Xbox 360 Because 'Consumers Like Choice'

Stephen Totilo writes:

"Microsoft didn't exactly drop the price of the Xbox 360 the weekend before E3. They merely lowered the price on the discontinued 20GB Pro version to $299 in order to make room at $349 for a new 60GB Pro model.

Why do that?

And why not use this opportunity to kill off the hard-drive-free Arcade version of the machine?

Don Mattrick, head of Xbox at Microsoft, broke it down for me at E3..."
SUP3R - contributor
Published: 477 days 4 hours ago | News | E3 2008 | Xbox 360 | Industry News
 
 
 
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