The Arcade has been made official and has been given a price. For 279$ your family will be able to enjoy a 360, a 256 MB memory card, and five arcade games. The system will also include HDMI.
The real question is: with a price point of 279$, will this finally be what the 360 needs to steal away Wii sales?
I am not sure that a bundle with arcade games is going to be enough. I am not sure what age group they are really trying to attract. I don’t know that casual gamers are familiar enough with the Live Arcade service that a system with casual games is going to galvanize them into making a 300$ purchase. Furthermore, if they are gullible enough to buy into the system and really get into live Arcade games, they’ll still only have 256MB of memory — aka they are going to run out of space fast.
Maybe this system will be enough to give the Microsoft sales boost legs.
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