MS said no price cut however...

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » July 14, 2006, 9:20 pm

...they never said no bundling.

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/show_blo ... id=6154119

Rumor has it Aug 1st will see the 360 bundled with PGR3, 1250 MS points and 3 months of XBL for 399$.(the assumption is that it'll be the X360 Premium.)

A nice deal if it is indeed the premium.

*edit* made sure the Rumor word was very obvious.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » July 15, 2006, 3:40 am

do you guys just blow your load in your jeans over these rumors or what?

this forum has gotten fucking retarded with 360/ps3 RUMORS ffs.

I hate to see what will happen when either of you two get your hands on an actual press release. You'll probably go unconcious from orgasmic delight.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » July 15, 2006, 8:44 am

Not particularly, however if people were considering getting one, it might be worth waiting a few weeks.

Tegellan · Post by **Tegellan** » July 15, 2006, 10:07 am

Animalor wrote:Not particularly, however if people were considering getting one, it might be worth waiting a few weeks.

I am in that group, so i appreciate this information, also I report no load blowing over the subject.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » July 15, 2006, 6:35 pm

I was in costco yesterday and saw a bundle that had the premium, pgr3, extra controler, but im not sure of anything else. Are bundles in Costco/Sams made by them? Or by the game companies?

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » July 15, 2006, 6:44 pm

Sionistic wrote:I was in costco yesterday and saw a bundle that had the premium, pgr3, extra controler, but im not sure of anything else. Are bundles in Costco/Sams made by them? Or by the game companies?

The thread that this all originated from had a few mentions of this as well. I think this bundle was made by Costco themselves. A good deal too imo since 3 months of Live and 1250 points comes to about the same price as a wireless controller.

miir · Post by **miir** » July 17, 2006, 2:42 pm

360 sales are that bad, huh?

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » July 17, 2006, 2:48 pm

miir wrote:360 sales are that bad, huh?

It's fairly common to bundle games and such with consoles.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » July 17, 2006, 8:12 pm

what? I don't think a game has been bundled with a console since super mario bros/duck hunt.

I'm sure 360 sales have slown down quite a bit since a decent game hasn't been released on it since march. Or since launch if you dont' count PS2 ports with HD textures.

August is looking good tho, with n3 and dead rising.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » July 17, 2006, 8:44 pm

kyoukan wrote:what? I don't think a game has been bundled with a console since super mario bros/duck hunt.

I'm sure 360 sales have slown down quite a bit since a decent game hasn't been released on it since march. Or since launch if you dont' count PS2 ports with HD textures.

August is looking good tho, with n3 and dead rising.

I got a racing game with my PS2. GT3?

I got Top Spin and NCAA football with my XBox.

Yeah, I guess there hasn't been anything since Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt (even though that was a cool bundle

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Akanae · Post by **Akanae** » July 17, 2006, 8:45 pm

Costco almost exclusively sells consoles bundled with one or more games and two controllers. The bundle getting better doesn't surprise me at all since it is a natural progression as systems get older/ have more competition.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » July 17, 2006, 8:47 pm

I haven't seen the Costco bundle, but the bundles I have purchased in the past were the same price as the console alone. Most bundles I have seen for the XBox 360 has just been a discounted version of buying all of the parts individually.

Gamei · Post by **Gamei** » July 17, 2006, 8:50 pm

I got waverace with my n64. I got gt3 I think with my ps2 as well, and halo with my xbox(though it was used.)

I think you can get a gamecube with metriod prime right now.

And a friend recently got a ds that came with mario kart ds!

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » July 17, 2006, 8:56 pm

This got me thinking. Were those bundles you mentionned manufacturer bundles or retailer ones?

I know Nintendo sold Mario/Duck Hunt with hte NES, Super Mario World with the SNES, No idea with the N64 or Gamecube.

Sega Bundled Altered Beast with the Genesis but no idea with the Saturn of Dreamcast

MS created a few bundles with different themes for the original XBox.

Were any of the Sony bundles ever offered by Sony? Something with a flagship title like Crash Bandicoot or Gran Tourismo?

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » July 17, 2006, 9:09 pm

I am almost positive Gran Tourismo was a Sony bundle. I think there were a couple others that were offered around that time as well.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » July 17, 2006, 10:29 pm

xbox halo, fuck it even had a custom case in the bundle

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » July 18, 2006, 12:41 pm

Animalor wrote:Not particularly, however if people were considering getting one, it might be worth waiting a few weeks.

wrong answer. Just say "YES!!!'

Post by **Sylvus** » July 18, 2006, 12:52 pm

I've been trying to get my friend to order an Xbox for a while, and he just sent me a copy of his receipt to say that he bought one.

I don't know if he had to do anything special, but it looks like he ordered it from overstock.com and paid $312.91 (including shipping) for the platinum.

Sabek · Post by **Sabek** » July 18, 2006, 1:09 pm

Looks like that deal was on slickdeals yesterday

http://www.slickdeals.net/#p7809

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » August 3, 2006, 4:37 pm

Looks like Future Shop let the cat out of the bag a wee bit early on this taking pre-orders for the kit online.

499$ is the canadian price for the Premium 360

*edit*
Bestbuy.ca has it up also at http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetai ... 83&PCName=

Ship date of Aug 9th.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » August 3, 2006, 4:41 pm

I saw that bundle in stock for 399.00 at Fry's today.

Trias · Post by **Trias** » August 3, 2006, 5:10 pm

nice i have a one year warranty on my 360 from gamestop; it has been freezing up on me at times lately so i'm going to return it and snag a bundle.

i know the manager so it will be a smooth swap!

free game and free xboxlive pts!