What's the Xbox 360 Arcade Edition?

Something Toys "R" Us and Amazon are each listing for $279 and with an October 23 ship date. I guess that answers the question "Is Microsoft dropping the Core?" Nope. They're just souping it up a little.

Here's the item info, courtesy Toys "R" Us:

Item #: 499393
SKU: 18B75D29
UPC/EAN/ISBN: 882224519588
Manufacturer #: XGX-00001

Ars Technica reported in late September that a "new Xbox Core SKU" might replace the current Core system (also priced at $279) and possibly come with the following improvements and add-ins:

- HDMI port
- 256 MB memory card
- Wireless controller
- A disc containing five Xbox LIVE Arcade games (Boom-Boom Rocket, Pac-man, Uno, Feeding Frenzy, and Luxor 2)

HDMI, check (the other versions all have it). Wireless controller, bonus! Disc with five XBLA games? Snooooooze. 256 MB memory card? Drop it, bump the price to $300, and pop a 20 GB hard drive on the side instead. A spindle-less core system might as well be naked as bad as some games perform without one.

Comments

Old news, Peckham, where have you been?

lstormy10

October 04, 2007

5:42 PM PT

Here when the news broke everywhere, not two days after. ;-)

mattpeckham

October 05, 2007

2:25 PM PT

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