In reaction to Sony's price drop of the PS3 last week, Microsoft yesterday announced a price drop and new bundles for the Xbox 360. They also said that they would phase out Xbox 360 Core version in favour of a new bundle aimed at casual gamers, the Xbox 360 Arcade, which will go on sale from November 15.
They also announced that the Xbox 360 Pro, which was recently slashed in price to $579.95, will be sold from November 1 as a package with two free games - Forza Motorsport 2 and Viva Pinata. The only problem was that they failed to issue the press release to SmartHouse but instead chose to talk exclusively to Fairfax. Also denied access to the information was News Ltd publications as well as several leading gaming sites.
When we initally broke the failure rate story Mclean who is normally hungry for publicity denied any serious problems with the Xbox 360.
