Remind me not to get this thing.

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When the Xbox 360 goes on sale this holiday season, buyers will be able to purchase a no-frills version for $299.99 or a bells-and-whistles version for $399.99.

The less-expensive core system will feature only the Xbox 360 console with a controller, which has to be plugged into the system to play games. The $400 option will come with a 20 GB hard drive, a wireless controller, a headset (used for talking with other players online) that stylistically matches the Xbox 360 and, for a limited time, a remote control allowing users to more easily access the machine's multimedia functions.

Do read the part about the harddrive version. ;)

Gamers who buy the $400 version of the system will also find their hard drives pre-loaded with music, gaming videos and more, though Microsoft declined to specifically say what it planned to include on the hard drive.

Meaning the first 48 hours you're busy deleting all the gunk off of the harddrive (taking up 19.5GB of precious space), before you find that it either won't start up again or that you finally have room to install your game. :)

But the biggest shock is this one:
The prices unveiled Wednesday apply to both North American and European consumers (the numbers are the same in Europe, though they're in Euros, not dollars). Japanese pricing was not announced.

Hello? There's a big difference between something costing 300 dollars or 300 euros, you know? At least Sony will change its prices, saying 300 dollars for the Mercs, 250 euros for the Euries. But of course, this is Microsoft, who only see through $$ signs. (I wonder what it'll cost in the UK... Probably 300 pounds, as they can't deviate from the 300... ;))

No way will I buy this thing.

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Hehehe

Well, I can tell ya now, with my mom being in Germany right now, the US dollar compaired to 1 euro is approx $.78 cents. So for 1 US dollar, you get .78 euro. So yeah, the european version would be probably about $200-250 euro's. But I won't buy it. Ill gladly take an older Xbox, or wait about 10 years when these new ones come down in price. :-)

Jeremy

PS, don't buy it Ageless! hehe

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