Xbox 360 (Xbox 360)Japanese Xbox 360 price cutGamesIndustry - September 1, 2008
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at 4:30AM PST on September 1, 2008
Microsoft has announced it will slash the price of its Xbox 360 in Japan by about 30 per cent, in an effort to drop the price below that of the Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation 3.
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Microsoft will lower the price of the Xbox 360's Arcade model by 8,000 yen ($73.50) to 19,800 yen, making the device the first among competing consoles to carry a price tag less than 20,000 yen, the business daily said. It will reduce the prices of the two other models by 5,000 yen to 8,000 yen. Nintendo's Wii is 25,000 yen, and SCE's PS3 is 39,800 yen.