Since Microsoft really has zero need to incentivize potential next-gen system vacillators with a price drop this holiday (excluding the 10 Core pack drop recently issued in the UK), they're looking to do the next best thing: bundle. It's not the type of bundling specialty retailers give you bent over sans lube during launches, its the kind that people might actually want.

GamesIndustry dot Biz is just positive that MS will be releasing the HD-DVD add on at a 199 cost to consumers. That's about 374 US dollars given current exchange rates, something that UK to North American pricing rarely reflects. If we're talking pounds to dollars, the UK is usually on the receiving end of earlier mentioned screwing, pricewise.

The dot Biz also claims that Allard, Moore, Gates & Co. will be bundling that HD-DVD movie player alongside a Premium pack, somewhere in the range of 375-400. Fair deal? Depends on who wins the next-gen format war. Michael McWhertor

Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive to cost 199 [GamesIndustry.biz]

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