According to video game charting site vgchartz.com, the Xbox 360 Arcade edition may be due for another price cut on September 7th to $US199 ($AU215). This is semi-confirmed with a photo from the stock ordering system of a video game retailer.

Ars Technica is also reporting a rumoured drop for the consoles - $US299.99 ($AU322) 60gb Premium, $US399.99 ($AU430) 120gb Elite.

Going on real-store prices here in Australia, we'd probably expect to pay $AU50 more than these prices if they are passed on down here.

Even with $50 extra that's still extremely cheap.

Until I can be sure I'm getting the Falcon chipset with a HDMI port, I won't be buying one. I don't want a noisy, overheating POS, not even for that price.

You can get a 360 Pro bundle at GAME with Gears of War, Halo 3 and Assassin's Creed for $489 at GAME. That's basically a Pro for under $400 already. Anyone who turns their nose up at those three games doesn't deserve a 360.

You can get a 360 Pro bundle at GAME with Gears of War, Halo 3 and Assassin's Creed for $489 at GAME. That's basically a Pro for under $400 already. Anyone who turns their nose up at those three games doesn't deserve a 360.

I enjoyed AC but the other two I couldn't really get into.

You can get a 360 Pro bundle at GAME with Gears of War, Halo 3 and Assassin's Creed for $489 at GAME. That's basically a Pro for under $400 already. Anyone who turns their nose up at those three games doesn't deserve a 360.

Played all three, didn't like any of them. Two shooting games with a controller and a multiplayer fanbase of 12 years olds and a bad open world Prince of Persia game? Besides, if I wanted two of those games, I could get them better on PC, and the third one will probably have a PC release soon anyway.

I'd play a bad open world Prince of Persia game over an actual Prince of Persia game any day.

Haven't you seen the new Prince of Persia game?!

Ah so that's what the Assassin's Creed developers have been working on.

Open World > Linear imo

Tightly designer environments built for fun and gameplay have their place. Just throwing a bunch of random shit around and letting people have their own fun isn't always the answer. I mean, Assassin's Creed has you do the same thing every bloody time: Climb up high to unlock more areas so you can climb up high and unlock more areas and now you can go and assassinate someone oh but first you have to do these handful of mini games and little quests over and over again.

Sands of Time > Assassin's Creed, in both story and gameplay.

Tightly designer environments built for fun and gameplay have their place. Just throwing a bunch of random sh*t around and letting people have their own fun isn't always the answer. I mean, Assassin's Creed has you do the same thing every bloody time: Climb up high to unlock more areas so you can climb up high and unlock more areas and now you can go and assassinate someone oh but first you have to do these handful of mini games and little quests over and over again.

Sands of Time > Assassin's Creed, in both story and gameplay.

I did only play until the end of the first assassination I had heard it get repetitive.

Assassins Creed has a wicked storyline. You can tell there has been a lot of effort put into it. I just read http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=175552&site=xbw which explains the ending in detail (spoilers obviously)
I didn't pick up on half of that stuff, but it is cool that it's in there.

Yeah, that's pretty cool. I should really rent Assassin's and see how I like it.

as repetitive as it is (and it really is) it is worth the $40-50 that it goes for these days

It was alright, nice shiney graphics for one, but the combat - "quests" were, as said, mindnumbingly repetitive.

I wouldn't call it open world though, most of the areas are locked when you start, you go to a city, do the outlined quests, move onto the next city - thats not open world.

It would have been more open, and IMO a better game, if you could have chosen who to assasinate and when - that, and some sort of leveling system so fighting 20 guards actually had some benefit.

I agree though that PoP was a much better game. The combat system was awesome, great story line, decent graphics - and obviously Im a fan of the Daharka ^_^  I'm waiting eagerly for the next title.

I love the new PoP style too.

Another classic RJG thread derailment!

You all fell for it too! suckers

You all fell for it too! suckers

It was more interesting then the original topic.

You all fell for it too! suckers

It was more interesting then the original topic.

/agree