RSSCanadians See $100 Xbox Price Drop
By the Betanews Staff | Published August 8, 2007, 10:46 AM
Alongside Tuesday's $50 price cut in the United States, Canadian gamers are seeing cheaper Xbox 360 as well, finally bringing the console down to a reasonable price tag. Microsoft has lowered the cost by $100 CDN for all Xbox 360 versions. The Premium console will now cost $399.99 CDN, with the Core system priced at $299.99 CDN.
Products sold in Canada are traditionally more expensive -- the Xbox 360 debuted with a price tag of $499.99 CDN -- due to exchange rates, but a falling U.S. dollar has put the Canadian dollar on nearly equal ground in recent months. The Xbox 360 Elite will now cost $499.99 CDN, while the Halo 3 Special Edition is slated to debut at $449.99 CDN in September.
Remeber folks, it's not really a price drop, they are clearing stock of old unrelaible HDMI-less 90nm units.
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|You sound bitter.
This kind of thing genuinely upsets you, huh?
Have you anything to back up your insinuation that the HDMI equipped XBox 360s are going to be at the old price-point or is it just the usual illogical nonsense that has you unable to grasp that the old dead 60gb PS3 @ $499 is a stock clearance when it's being replaced by a $599 80gb sku?
I have to say I'm finding the Sony fanclub so obviously trying to talk-up & create their own rumour of an impending 80gb PS3 price cut hilarious.
Good for Canada, nice to see Microsoft spreading around their cost reduction savings.....hope Europe isn't too far behind now.
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|ps3 60gb was 599.99, it is now and will remain so on any future sales to be $499.99... the price then dropped doesn't matter what the 80 costs orr if no more 60s are being produced... the price of the 60 has now dropped.
im not sure as to why this article exists except for the fact that mircosoft was ****ing over canadians since launch time as difference in currencies did not justify the difference in prices.
elite still only $50 cheaper than ps3.
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|It's a line clearance on an old and dead model.
Get over it.
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|Where's Canada? I can't find it on the map. :)
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|It's America Jr. Just look north you hoser.
By the way, this price drop is completely unfair to Sony.
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|Well that's just plain awesome!
Except it's not enough. Still cheaper for me to drive down to the states and grab one from there (which I don't want to do). Especially since the dollar will be par by the end of the month.
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|no it wont. wont break 0.98 by end of year.
but still alot cheaper to drive down and pick one up specifically because of the lower taxes, tired of paying 14%.
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|The bet is on big guy. By the end of 2007 it'll see par. Write it down ;).
As for driving down, yea a little cheaper but I don't feel like supporting the US economy. (nobody dare start a war with that last comment).
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|Dont worry Jordanr05,
We all wish Bush would die in a fiery crash of Air Force One. Technically, you are supporting the US economy no matter where you buy your 360 from.
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|We all wish Bush would die in a fiery crash of Air Force One.
That was a horrible troll. The least you could have done was try to blame the higher prices in Canada on him.
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|My mistake.
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|You might want to move that up a parent. It wasn't my comment. I was responding to it.
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|"Technically, you are supporting the US economy no matter where you buy your 360 from."
On two fronts. Microsoft is American, firstly. Secondly, most of the big electronic retailers in Canada are just subsidiaries of US companies. So this guy might as well just drive down to New Hampshire and get one for $50 bucks cheaper with no sales tax. Prices aren't going to *really* lower on anything in Canada unless there is some actual competition.
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|HA!!
Jordan, you don't feel like supporting the U.S. economy? You do realize that your beloved country is the U.S.'s number one trade partner and that America's economy is interdependent with the rest of the world's, right?
Jordan, you'd have to move into the sticks, er, I meant "prairies" in a vainglorious attempt of not directly supporting the U.S. economy. And by moving into the sticks, dang it, "prairies," I mean "cease the consumption of all American products, i.e., Microsoft, Nike, Apple, Ford automobiles, Gap, American made films (300) and TV (MTV), et al."
Good luck Jordan; stay away from those dreaded Canadian shopping malls--they're littered with America-this, and America-that.
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|Air Force One is way to valuable for that purpose. In any event, the reduction in price to Canadians is a good move and we welcome the decision. But really who wants a XBox?
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|"We all wish Bush would die in a fiery crash of Air Force One"
That was a bit much. I can't stand the guy and I wish he and the whole administration would disappear, but that's not cool. Now prepare to get visited by the secret service.
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|I can not believe that you would even suggest something like that.
Maybe we will get lucky and get a female comunist in there instead.
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