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X360 HD-DVD To Sell for $375?

Posted Sep 9, 2006 at 8:24AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Europe, GamesIndustry.biz, Microsoft, Sony, UK

Looks like the Xbox 360 won't be having a holiday price cutdown, but don't fret 'coz retailers say that starting November, an HD-DVD and console package will be offered instead.

According to GamesIndustry's sources, Microsoft is planning to sell the HD-DVD drive at Â£199, which is roughly $375 for us in the US, along with two HD-DVD movies. Critics say that the movie support for next-gen consoles could've been PS3's edge, but the X360's HD-DVD package could sell for a $100 cheaper than the PS3's Blu-ray. In addition, Microsoft has just recently reduced the price of the X360's core package after retailers have similarly lowered their prices.

The sources also said that Microsoft will probably package the console and the HD-DVD for GBP 400 or 589 Euro -Â– which is roughly US $753, and that the selling price could even go as low as around US $705. Yep, $705 for BOTH the console and the movie player. And with the PS3's further delay in its launch, well...Microsoft is looking to their SKUs to be sold over the holidays, while there's no competition.

Gem, a UK distributor, is said to be already selling Xbox 360s bundles with a copy of Project Gotham Racing 3, along with two wireless controllers, all for the price of GBP 299, or an estimate of US $563. An official Premium bundle is expected to be made available in the market by early November, which will include a newly released triple-A third-party title. GamesIndustry tried to get the guys over at Microsoft to deny/confirm these speculations but they were unavailable for comment.

Via GamesIndustry.biz

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There not selling that S*H*I*T to me for that price. They can take the two extra movies and stick them up their A*S*S. How the hell do they come up $375.00 for a USB Optical Drive!!!!!

I can buy a Toshiba HDA1 HD-DVD Player & Electronic Expo for $400.00 right now!!!! At least it supports HDMI!!!

I thought we are getting a better deal being the 360 is doing a the cpu work?

What Crack it MS Smoking!!!!

# BAH! — Arkz 2006-09-09 11:00

i knew this would happen, you damn yanks always get eveything screwed up and totally wrong, £200 doesnt translate to $375 at all, use a money convertor and yes, but that certainly dont mean it will cost that, did you know that that £200 is including the 17.5% tax we have to pay? everything costs a lot over here, when it comes out in US it will probably actually be about $250

i mean, if people go by the converted prizes, the premium 360 is £280 here, and $400 in us? translate that? $522!

the DS sells here for £100=$186

PSP is £180, thats $335

an XBOX 360 wireless controller is £35, thats $65

# 360 rip off — Guest 2006-09-09 11:02

375or250 still sucks

# wth? — Guest 2006-09-09 11:53

"GamesIndustry tried to get the guys over at Microsoft to deny/confirm these speculations but they were unavailable for comment."

calm down, just speculation. Plus no one says you have to buy it.

# wow QJ — Guest 2006-09-09 12:21

your facts are slipping... and bad.... it will NOT be 375 here.. you CAN'T rely on converted prices like that... what n00bs

# Guest 2006-09-09 13:58

uk prices are much higher than US prices, so this conversion is useless. games that cost $60 over here are around £40 in uk, or $80-90. So the ddrive could easily be cheaper >_>.

# difference between this and the ps3. — Vecha 2006-09-09 14:58

choice.

Microsoft is giving you a choice to buy an HD drive...sony is not.

you can say, "screw HD" and just buy the system for 400 bucks.

with sony all you can do is pay the 500-600 bucks.

to some...a few hundred bucks is alot...which creates the flame wars.

funny to just sit back and watch as you buy the two great consoles yourself.

# I'm not stupid M$ — Guest 2006-09-09 15:57

xbox360=$400

hddvd=$375

20gharddrive+20 +20=60Gharddrive wich=$300

all that for $1075

or

you can buy a PS3 with blueray and 60Gharddrive

for only $600

# 400 to 500 whats a 100 more — Guest 2006-09-09 16:36

or you poor , get a job sucker

# ARGHHHH! — Guest 2006-09-09 16:40

WTF!!!! They promised low price of hddvd add-on!!! Now it looks like it was bad idea to rush with buying 360... If this turns out to be true I will sell my 360 by the end of the year and buy ps3.

It’s so damn expensive and hddvd for 360 won’t even be supported in games (((((

# Wow were you trying to put a positive spin on this? that super expensive — Guest 2006-09-09 17:14

Considering you can get a PS3 for 500 dollars that is equivalent to the xbox premium with the HDDVD add-on. Why would pay 700-800 dollars on the xbox package which is less supported and doesnt use HDDVD for games. Complete retardation

# rumors — Guest 2006-09-09 17:15

its just a rumor ...... wait for official news!!!!!!!!!!!

# OMFG — Guest 2006-09-09 17:55

PEOPLE PLEASE!!!!

IT WILL NOT BE 375!!!!

WE KNOW THIS...

QJ or at least the poster of this rubbish..

CAN"T THINK LOGICALLY!

you can't just convert a UK price and expect it to be that in the US as said before...

# 200 Minimum — Vietone 2006-09-09 18:31

The add-on will cost at least $200 in US. Im leaning towards 250-300 because of the fact that this is a custom enclosure designed to only work with the Xbox360.

unless they make the add-on 150-200 bucks, its not gonna sell very well. HD-DVD is slipping in their plan to get into the market.

# What the...? — Guest 2006-09-10 01:57

I sure as hell am not buying that thing for $375.

And since when is US $705 LOW? o.o'

# Hmm — Guest 2006-09-10 02:05

@ 16. »

"WTF!!!! They promised low price of hddvd add-on!!!"

Oh but they kept their promise. It's going to be as "low" as $705. =p

"Now it looks like it was bad idea to rush with buying 360... If this turns out to be true I will sell my 360 by the end of the year and buy ps3. "

I'm not a fan of Xbox, but thats a pretty odd reason to switch. Get the console you ewant for the games, not the mediaplayer.

"It’s so damn expensive and hddvd for 360 won’t even be supported in games ((((("

Yeah I'm sick iof hearing how developers can't fit things on DVD's or have to compress graphics and cut corners.

Upgraded media storage has always gone hand in hand with a next gen console. Microsoft are the first to ignore that. And it's going to bite them in the @ss.

# #22 — Guest 2006-09-10 03:53

>"Upgraded media storage has always gone hand in hand with a next gen console. Microsoft are the first to ignore that. And it's going to bite them in the @ss."

Well it's easy to talk the talk, compaines like MS have to walk the walk. What do you suggest MS should have done, choose Sony's Blu-ray drive for the 360? Because contrary to what some people here may think, HD-DVD would NOT have been suitable for a next-gen console. :|

# The difficult choice — Vietone 2006-09-10 04:56

Microsoft made a hard choice deciding not to use a next gen media format. Im sure Toshiba tried to push Microsoft into placing a HD-DVD drive in the Xbox360 but that would mean further delays of the system and not having a years time to launch ahead of the PS3.

So whats the advantage? They have had 1 year to ship almost 6 million Xbox360s out by the time the PS3 will be launched.

So why didnt they include it? Fact being that since no one really knows which format will win, microsoft didnt want to take the chance to pick the format that would lose.

Disadvantages? Space Space Space and more Space. With games increasing Size with time, the Space Issue will definitly bite the Xbox360 into using multiple disks. PC games compress all their files in containers and thats why they never seem to be bigger then a DVD but when you decompress all those files, they get much bigger then a DVD9. HL2 for example. The single player game itself is compressed to around 4.5GB, Decompress all those files and well you almost double that size.

Fear Combat is a 1.85Gb download and when its installed its 3.45Gb of hard drive space. thats just for the "Multiplayer" Only. Fear for the Xbox360 will be on a DVD9 im sure and will use all of that space. They might possibly have to downgrade some stuff to make it fit.

Everyone can talk all they want but I just provided proof that games will break the DVD9 barrier by the end of 2006. DVD9 was passed months ago for the PC, the Xbox360 will soon follow. With no hard drive, Xbox360 doesnt have the option to highly compress files like the install files found on PC games.

# to #23 — Guest 2006-09-10 05:41

Well it's easy to talk the talk, compaines like MS have to walk the walk. What do you suggest MS should have done, choose Sony's Blu-ray drive for the 360? Because contrary to what some people here may think, HD-DVD would NOT have been suitable for a next-gen console. :|

I suggest Ms should have put HD-DVD in their 360, it did not have to be blue ray like you say. this is the same with dreamcast they chose to stay with cd format to save money and got ***** back 2 years later, the same will happen to the 360 which is a sad.

# hd-dvd — Guest 2006-09-10 07:19

hd-dvd add on will cost 250-300 us dollars

# HD-DVD is just NOT good enough for games! — Guest 2006-09-10 07:34

>"I suggest Ms should have put HD-DVD in their 360, it did not have to be blue ray like you say. this is the same with dreamcast they chose to stay with cd format to save money and got ***** back 2 years later, the same will happen to the 360 which is a sad."

The one point almost EVERYONE seems to overlook about drives is that it's not JUST about capacity, it's also about transer speed, and in this respect HD-DVD is NOT GOOD ENOUGH! (Sorry to shout but it's true! ;)).

The Blu-ray 2x drive in the PS3 has a slower transfer rate than the DVD 12x drive in the 360, making it more like the equivalent of a DVD 8x (and it is rated as such in the specs). Blu-ray 1x would have been even worse, with half the transfer speed, giving it the speed of DVD 4x.

Blu-ray 1x and HD-DVD 1x have similar transfer speeds, but there are NO HD-DVD 2x drives at the moment, the fastest speed is still only 1x, which means such a drive would be about at worse 1/3rd the speed of the DVD 12x drive in the XBox 360, meaning everything will take up to 3 times longer to load!!! Having more space is great, but DVD 4x speed is not great, especially when it would add atleast $100 to the price of the console.

So come on, even the most sceptical of you have to admit that such a slow drive not good enough for next-gen games. Hence HD-DVD whilst perfect for HD movies, it will not good enough as a storage medium for next-gen games until faster drives appear in the future (2x, 4x etc). Too late for the 360.

MS were therefore left with two choices, to use SONY'S Blu-ray drive, or to use DVD.

So, isn't it obvious now why they had to stick with DVD? ;)

# This is assanine — Guest 2006-09-10 08:23

Microsoft got so much right with the Xbox 360. But can someone explain to me how this is something to get excited about? For $375, I get a box that is branded Microsoft, will not play games, and supports a media format that isn't even established? The only thing about this device that seems remotely related to the Xbox experience is the fact that it has a cable that effectively reduces your 360 into a $400 media proxy that skips chapters in a movie. What a ripoff.

# no good — Guest 2006-09-10 08:49

this thing is going to be terrible because it take so much space, more over "heat" to the system. plus what happens if the dam thing just makes your games pretty that it, no extra entertainment. why didn't they release the dam xbox in sep. or nov., duh you iddoits you wasted people money and time. what the bugs. how about the people who don't want it. the xbox is for fat couch patatoes

# what the — TheDude 2006-09-10 10:26

"Critics say that the movie support for next-gen consoles could've been PS3's edge, but the X360's HD-DVD package could sell for a \$100 cheaper than the PS3's Blu-ray" that would make the drive $400 by the way.

So ps3 doesn't have the edge because the entire PS3 system with blu-ray that is used for movies and games is $125 more than Microsofts HD-DVD drive add-on that only plays movies. Oh and just having the drive is useless so you have to buy a 360 system in order to use it wich then brings you to $675 with a core 360 and $775 with premium. But you have a choice, with Microsoft.

1. Buy the 360 and no HD-DVD and play games on DVD-9s wich in a year or two will be multiple discs, it's the truth and it will hurt certain games. And not be able to watch HD movies.

2.Buy the 360 and HD-DVD drive which cost more than the "premium" PS3 and yes watch HD movies but still play games on DVD-9s.

3.Buy either PS3 and watch HD movies and play games on Blu-ray with no constraints on space or having multiple discs. And the games costs the same as 360's.

Awesome choices huh?

# PS3 is a better value — Guest 2006-09-10 10:51

This way to expensive. Where's the xbox fanboy now.

I'm glad that i don't buy the Xbox360 wet. Ps3 is a better choice.

PS: CND Prices (canada)

First here's a run down of the Xbox 360:

Xbox 360 Standard: $399.99

Gold Xbox Live Subscription: At least $49.99

Wireless Networking Adapter: $99.99

Second Wireless Controller: $49.99

Two Play and Charge Kits: $19.99 times two.

HD-DVD: $199*

Total: $839.94

That, of course, didn't include the High Def TV or any games.

So here's the best I can figure for the Playstation 3:

Playstation 3 standard: $599

PS3 Network Platform: Free

Wireless Networking Adapter: Built-in

Blu-ray player: Built-in

Second Wireless Controller: $49.99*

Two charge Kits: $19.99 times two*

Total: $688.97

# worth the money — Guest 2006-09-10 12:29

the ps3 is worth every dime in the 600$. you can simply do more on it and will have more. with the ps3 you get a bigger harddrive, wifi, and bluray player all in one. the xbox gives you a choice but to make it as good as ps3 you would have to spend more. the xbox is mainly just for games. the ps3 is a huge entertainment system. its almost like taking public transportation. you can buy a pack of tokens to just get you to school or work and back. you have the choise to buy more tokens to go to the party or to your girls house. or you buy a transpass witch might cost more but you dont have to just go to work and back. you can go where ever you want till your transpass expires. you might as well, youve paid your money. so the xbox is the token and the ps3 is the pass. or you can stop waisting your money on games and save to get a car.

# Wow, X06 is two weeks away. Just Wait — Guest 2006-09-10 18:28

Wasn't it already announced that the HD-DVD was gonna be $199..... I guess it wasn't confirmed rofl.

"The sources also said that Microsoft will probably package the console and the HD-DVD for GBP 400"

So lets translate it back, Xbox 360 (Core I'm guessing) + HD DVD for $400 (HD-DVD = $100) is actually a nice deal. Oh btw, I've talked to a nice British guy and he said that they basically replace $ with a £ (assuming it works the other way too) so its all good. And a HD-DVD for Xbox 360 addon alone would be $200. So maybe that's the bundle that MS is so secretive about. Let's just wait till X06 folks, no reason to argue right now. All this is just merely speculations.

# Remember — Guest 2006-09-11 03:03

There will be 2 models.., of ps3 one goes fu about 400

whit out hdmi...

And the big one whit HDMI Full Hd 1080p Support and all the other stuf..

The Cell Chip is Worlds Fastets Chip..,

Linux Sony/Appel

*****ing Sick Games-.

Culd It Get any Better

i am still angry over the delay but i inded Belive it is the (PS4) you can call it that..Just Look at the Specs

that will win this consel War

# Guest 2006-09-11 09:19

gg specs

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