New € 199 Xbox 360 bundle hits Europe tomorrow 15 May 2008

A new €199 Xbox360 bundle is set to hit Europe tomorrow 15 May 2008. The bundle contains a core Xbox 360 console, a 512 MB memory card, two wireless controllers, Halo 3 and Project Gotham Racing 4.

[Capt CHAOS]

Especially as two wireless controllers are included..

[sonarus]

Very good deal indeed. I wonder when sony is going to feel threatened enough to cut price in EU

[Sangria]

It seems it already released in France:
http://micromania.fr/vente/...
I actually didn't notice, i thought that pack was old.

[Expy]

No live unless you pay another $150 (or equivalent in your currency)... Great deal.... Yea....

[Regret]

Can you play online on silver?

Amazaing deal however.

[St0]

No you need a gold account to play online games on the 360. You get a 1 month trial inside the box when you buy one though

[princejb134]

i thought a hard drive is mandatory to play online

[bootsielon]

in Europe? Probably to counter MGS4 bundles

[xfrgtr]

Microsoft is so desperate

[Area_51]

no hard drive=Fail

[crck]

I wonder why MS refuses to drop the price in the US. I mean its been 2.5 years and its only dropped $20 for the Core and $50 for the Pro. Its like they are trying to shoot themselves in the foot.

[Leathersoup]

They haven't dropped the price in North America yet because they still have market supremacy here. As soon as the PS3 comes close to passing the 360 in market saturation they'll drop the price. It doesn't make sense for them to sell the console for less than they need to if it's selling well.
Everywhere in Europe excepting the UK the Xbox isn't doing so well so it would make sense for them to try to make the console look more attractive with a lower price tag. The same goes for Japan.

[Vip3r]

Like leathersoup said, the 360 isn't doing too well in Europe and MS and becoming ever more desperate for their sales to increase.

[P4KY B]

In UK ponds thats £158
In US dollars thats $308

thats a good deal.

[Skynetone]

you can add a 100 euro for a 20 gig hd and 50 for live

[vagina]

TROLL! again you don't need to spend a thing to get online... don't you have a bridge to hide under?

[Spinner]

Lol. Quit spinning - you know what we mean by "live"

That's PLAY ONLINE.

Edit @ Below: How am I trolling ... it's a fact: you have to pay to play online. Even if you get a month free.

Did you only play online for one month?

[vagina]

You get a FREE month of Live Gold when you make a new account and you can store your profile and games saves on the 512MB memory card. So again it will cost you NOTHING extra to go online and PLAY.

So many trolls so little time...

EDIT: @Below yes, but ONE month is more than enough to show HOW LIVE IS MUCH BETTER THAN ANYTHING ELSE OUT THERE ON THE OTHER SYSTEMS thus making it worth the WHOLE $4 a month.

[Skynetone]

well you need to pay for live to play games

unless your talking about the silver service which you can download some demos {how many demos can you download on a 512 md card}

its just not a good deal

[thewhoopimen]

>So again it will cost you NOTHING extra to go online and PLAY.

Yeah for one month... but who owns a console for one month? Not trolling just pointing out that free for one month isn't free.

[KingME]

Who the hell said you had to play it online. Perhaps the person that is interested in this bundle have no plans to play online. It's simple if you plan on playing online, do the math and decide which version to buy.

Stop tryin to rain on the bundle's parade with you negative hating attitudes. For what you get in this bundle that is a great deal. I have friends that bought the pro bundle that don't even play online. People will make the choices that best suits them so stop hating.

[InMyOpinion]

They should have dropped the core version long ago. Only an idiot would buy it, seriously.

One thing both MS and Sony did wrong this generation was to release so many different SKU's. I think they would have gained more from releasing just one that was perfectly balanced.

[iceice123]

Especially with Halo 3 and PGR4, two of the greatest games this generation has to offer. Too bad there's the lack of harddrive, though.

[St0]

Wish it was Forza 2 instead of PGR4 though

[titntin]

With the games and the two wireless controllers thats a sweet deal!

I don't know if its going to be enough to trun the tide in this region though, as the 'arcade pack' has been selling here for less than that and didn't seem to stimulate sales much.

One thing is for sure, if you were sitting on the fence and waiting for a time to 'dive in' its never been better value for money - especially for the significant number of people who have no intention of going on line, and therefor don't really car about hard disc's or any live payments. there are a lot of people in that position..

[Pornlord]

Does the core unit have an HD??? It's a serious question by the way, not a flame thing.

[Spinner]

no

[iceice123]

There isn't one, they give you the memory card instead. It is why the bundle is so cheap.

[KingME]

Here ya go, do what everone else does when they need techincal information.

Console
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/h...

Live
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/l...

[Rourker]

this is a good deal, would be better if they had the bundle with a hard drive, but it does come with a memory card, so thats alright I guess.

[Pornlord]

What is size of the average saved game on the 360??? Just a ballpark really??

[Rourker]

I don't have a 360, but I'm guessing around 1000 Kb

[iceice123]

The largest on mine is 2mb. Not exactly sure though, I'll check. Just checked, Average around 400kb-800kb(Gta4 being just under 800). But Mass effect is 1mb and all my orange box saves come to 60MB.

[tweaker]

How about they bundle an HDD instead of the extra controller, 512mb memory card, and the 2 games.

[Rourker]

if they did that MS may take a hit financially but they would set a great movement for the 360 in Europe. Probably start outselling the PS3 for a while there too.

[Pornlord]

Yeah, I only want a 360 of my own (my roomate has the 360, I have the PS3, even though I paid for both :)) For Fable 2... so I don't know if I really need the HD, what do you guys think?? I already use my PS3 for any media playing and any storage (I have a Western Digital 750gig External Hook up) so I only need game data, you think that 520 mb will be enough, what kind of card is it??? SD???? or is it a specialty card?

I only ask the tech questions because I am at work and can't see some pages in entirely, and this is one of them.

[CRIMS0N_W0LF]

too bad in europe x360 is dead except for uk.

Where i live everyone makes fun of x360 and the few people that have x360 is mod chipped. they will buy a mod chipped x360 not this bundle

[St0]

But you can't play on live if you play copy games, so what's the point?

[marichuu]

Is that a fact? Am I just imagining things when I play on my 360 and enjoy it?

Sales might be "dead", but I'm sure a lot of people who bought their 360 still enjoy playing on them... they don't need to go out and buy a new console every month to prove their (our) point.

[Pornlord]

After all these question, I'm in the US, I don't think we will be seing a bundle, seeing how everyone just buys into things here without thinking about price anyways :)

[nevelo07]

they are getting desperate sh!t what are they going to do next give it away for 50

[red_ring_of_death]

1.no hard
2. $50 a year for online
3.RROD
4.fail

[nevelo07]

HELL YEAH EPIC FAIL

[Maximus]

the bundle would have been perfect if it included a hard drive,
I wonder if Sony will respond

[Pornlord]

Why would sony even have to respond? All sony's come with an HD which automatically makes any bundle without one a non issue to sony. If Xbox came out with a bundle like this with a 20 gig... that is a different story. But this bundle isn't even a real threat to sales imo.

[Aclay]

I wonder why in the world Microsoft continues to sell Xbox 360's with NO HARD DRIVES and sell the other 2 models with hard drives. I guess it's their way of being cheap.

But, that bundle sure doesn't top the PS3 GTA4 bundle though. That Project Gotham game and Halo 3 are old.

[crisronaldo]

XBOX360Pro 20GB HDMI + GTA4 + Play&Charge Kit = 279,90€

http://www.game.es/packs/de...

[etownone]

what is it with the people on this website?
has everyone been brainwashed by Sony into believing you need a HDD?

1. NOt everyone can afford the added expense of broadband
2. NOt everyone gets broadband where they live.
3. Some parents do NOT want their kids playing online
4. You can buy one with out a HDD to play the best games out there right now!! like COD4 and GTA4 for example. Didn't GTA4's sales and superior techs specs on 360 already prove yo do not need a HDD to play the game?
5. SOme poeple are CHEAP or just cant afford an expensive console. When the time is right for them and they can afford it, they can always buy the HDD later.

again...you do not need a HDD or Blu-Ray to start playing the best games this gen has to offer right now!!