UK retailers see tightening of Xbox allocations ahead of price drop; confusion remains over Arcade SKU
Retailers have seen the open availability of Xbox 360 hardware brought to an abrupt halt in the UK as Microsoft begins to manage its current stock ahead of its Xbox 360 SKU reshuffle.
Retail sources have confirmed to MCV that all 360 models have been pulled from open availability, with individual stores seeing limits placed on the amount of hardware they are able to order.
This follows the pattern seen in the channel shortly before Microsoft ditched the long-forgotten Xbox 360 Core SKU in favour of the Arcade model.
However, confusion remains concerning Microsoft’s intentions regarding its Arcade SKU. Current trade pricing still seems to indicate that the Arcade SKU is to see a price increase, but MCV believes that the listing is but a placeholder for the platform holder’s new SKU – most likely an RRP-reduced Xbox 360 Elite to take the place of the current Pro model.
Further evidence of Xbox SKU changes emerged over the weekend via Engadget, which has pictures of a white-boxed Xbox 360 Elite – the packaging of which, incidentally, carries no mention of the soon to be scrapped Pro SKU.
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price increase
gem have contacted us and most of the the accessories have increased in trade and retail price, the one section that we could complete on and make a profit on is now being squeezed thanks alot !
seems europe gets fuked again, as 360 prices are cut in the US and are to increase in the UK and Europe, thanks very much, always good to increase your prices in a recession
Why Would anyone buy a crapbox?
Why would anyone still buy a crapbox. when you get more value buying the new PS3 Slim.
Why would anybody buy a gaystation Slim?
360 has the games and PS3 has nothing. Only depressed emo kids buy PS3s.
why would anyone buy a pigstation slim??
ps3 is 4 sucker...who buy a ps3 are son of a bitch..ps3 is reallyyyy ugly like marty....hahahaha....
please ban fanboys
seriously this is for indies and people who work in the industry, why not have a log in and ban idiots from posting, this is no n4g
Henry
Been there, done that. It didn't really help a huge amount to be honest!
must be nice
so it must be nice to see your site turn into the same vile immature mess most other sites that allow comments are in ?
MCV must be our forum not public
Henry I totally agree this site and forums associated must be kept to thos in the industry who have an informed opinion not those slagging off our products.
Surely thats our job
OK
I certainly note your comments, guys. We're always evaluating the services we offer on MCVuk.com. As I said, we did previously remove open comments and introduce a log-in system but that bought with it other problems that I won't go into here. And to be honest, even that didn't eliminate the problem completely. It's part and parcel of the package in this new world of open communication, social networking etc.
Ignore it
Best suggestion is just to ignore them, and dont get dragged into a fanboy war!
As long as the actual stories on the MCV website remain industry specific...which they most definitely have....I wouldn't worry, they dont harm anyone.
Fanboys are here to stay....until the once console vision of Dennis Dyack is achieved of course...and even then they will still find something to flame each other over. I wouldn't criticise MCV over it.
There is a members forum on this website which sadly no one has posted in since April.
Immature Behavior
Ben maybe one day you just make the font of the poor/biased comments light Grey...i.e. take them into the background make them less visible. Would show others that this is not really something MCVUK is proud of. I am just a normal web visitor/videogame enthusiast and really love this site as well as Develop. You always seem to get news first.
Henry..
I can guarantee the new arcade will come with a HDD, explaining the increase. Although you have been told otherwise, you'll see.
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