Amazon Drops Price of Xbox 360 Arcade Console

Jonathan
With the Christmas here in just a few days, companies such as Amazon.com are lowering prices of popular items in hopes of pulling in customers. One of the better known sales on Amazon is the Xbox 360 Arcade Console. Listed at $180, the price reflects a $20 discount, or 10% sale.

Other popular Xbox deals include Wal-Mart's Xbox 360 Elite Package. With a retail price of $299, the system includes a 120GB hard drive and two games: Pure and Lego Batman. With the purchase of this package, Wal-Mart is including a $50 gift card to their online store, however. The deal is only good online and not available in their stores.

Wal-Mart isn't stopping its deals with the Elite Edition only. For $250, Wal-Mart is selling the Xbox 360 Arcade Console with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Hardened Edition and an Xbox Live 12 Month Gold Subscription Card.

Best Buy is trying to compete with Wal-Mart and Amazon's Xbox 360 sales through a deal of its own. Best Buy is offering a $50 Best Buy gift card with the purchase of the Xbox Elite Package ($299) and an Xbox 360 Elite Wireless Controller ($49).

Sales on games vary greatly by store. Best Buy is selling Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock for $7.99, normally priced at $29.99. Best Buy is also selling the popular Call of Duty: World at War for $39.99, a savings of $20 from the original price.

Online retailer Newegg.com has lowered the prices of many Xbox 360 games. Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X with an original price of $37 is now on sale for $16.99, a savings of $20. The ever popular Grand Theft Auto IV and GTA Episodes of Liberty City are on sale at a bundled price of $57.99. Guitar Hero's Aerosmith Bundle with a retail price of $69.99 is selling for $39.99, a sale of $30 on Newegg.com

Retailer Target has lowered the prices of its Xbox 360 games. Madden NFL 10 is now $49.99, from the price of $59.99. Halo 3 ODST is now going for $49.99, a drop of $10 or 17%.

The deals continue to come and go, expect these sales to end soon as new ones become available.

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