Xbox 360 gets price cut for Christmas

17 December 2009 14:38 GMT / By Duncan Geere

A good old festive price war appears to be erupting over the Xbox 360, and as a result, both HMV and Game have cut the price of the Arcade variant of the console to an attractive £110.

That's a full £20 off the £130 that the console was selling for back in the summer. It seems like the strategy's paying off too with discount code site myvouchercodes.co.uk claiming that it's seen nearly a doubling of sales of the Xbox 360 through the site in the last 2 days.

The number of searches for the console have also risen - 400% since the start of the year, apparently. However, it's likely that a good chunk of that increase is just because it's the festive season, rather than anything to do with the sale.

If you've not picked up an Xbox 360 yet, is a further £20 price cut enough to swing you? Or do you balk at the cost of then populating a games collection for the console, which can cost far more than the original console did? Tell us in the comments.

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Gaming, Xbox 360, HMV, GAME