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Report: Xbox 360 Elite Price Drop Coming End of August

Posted August 12, 2009 by David Radd

Following reports that the Xbox 360 Pro would be phased out, a picture appeared soon afterwards where a new Xbox 360 Arcade box did not mention the Pro console SKU. Now the inevitable third piece of evidence has surfaced: a cutout from a retailer catalogue picked up by Kotaku.

All part of the early holiday rush.

The Meijer catalogue, dated for August 30, indicates that the Xbox 360 Elite will be priced at $299- the same level that the Pro console is currently available for. There's a good chance that the Xbox 360 Elite price cut will be officially announced at Gamescom next week.

All of the pieces are falling into place for what a mole originally told Ars Technica in June: Sony will drop the price of the PS3 (and launch the PS3 Slim), while Microsoft will drop the price of the Xbox 360 Elite to counter.

David Radd has worked as a gaming journalist since 2004 at sites such as GamerFeed, Gigex and GameDaily Biz.