Xbox 360 Elite price drop official, 60Gb Pro SKU phased out

Again the rumor mill got a hold of this story well before the official announcement was ready. So, in case you haven't heard of this yet, and you probably have unless you live in a box, the Elite SKU of Xbox 360 is getting a $100 price drop, to $299. In addition to this, the old 60GB Pro SKU that was previously at $299 is being dropped to $249, while supplies last, meaning that they are not going to make more Pro SKU's and are completely phasing it out. In effect, this means that you can now get 120GB hard disk space for the same price you previously got only 60GB. And a black Xbox 360. Other differences between the Pro and Elite are minor really.

Regardless of this price drop, the 360 hard disk is still ridiculously pricy, and I wouldn't be surprised if at some point they'd lower the price of the 120GB one and bring out something bigger to take its place, especially with all the Games on Demand stuff, the possibility to install games to disk and everything else really. Disk space is so cheap these days that it would be a surprise if they didn't do something about it soon.

Officially these prices come into effect 28th of August, but people have been seeing these new boxes in stores already. Did I say new boxes? Oh yes, I did. Both remaining SKU's, Arcade and Elite, will have new packaging as well.

Here's a few images for you two look at. Clickety click on the thumbs for a bigger picture.