{"id":6467,"date":"2009-08-27T21:03:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T04:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6467"},"modified":"2013-05-29T22:39:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T05:39:14","slug":"xbox-360-elite-costs-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/xbox-360-elite-costs-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox 360 Elite Costs Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8865\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8865\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8865 \" alt=\"A new Xbox 360 Elite will save you one of these.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/100front-S2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"210\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new Xbox 360 Elite will save you one of these, but don&#8217;t expect to find an HDMI cable in the box.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AUG. 27, 2009 \u2022 With the recently announced $299 PS3 Slim creating an unfavorable comparison with its $399 Xbox 360 Elite, Microsoft Game Studios cut the price of the console by $100, and reduced existing inventory of the Pro model to $249, and discontinued the latter. Unfortunately, Microsoft also eliminated the previously included HDMI cable from the Elite package \u2013 an accessory that usually costs around $30 at mainstream retailers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: Technically both systems now cost $300, but for Microsoft there is no getting around the fact that the PlayStation 3 is now a better deal.\u00a0 The Xbox 360 does not have a Blu-ray player or HDMI cable.\u00a0 Furthermore, the PS3 comes with built-in Wi-Fi capability and free online gameplay.\u00a0 With the Xbox 360 online gameplay costs an extra $50 a year and the official Xbox 360 Wi-Fi adaptor costs about $100.\u00a0 Of course, you still can&#8217;t play Halo on a PS3.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUG. 27, 2009 \u2022 With the recently announced $299 PS3 Slim creating an unfavorable comparison with its $399 Xbox 360 Elite, Microsoft Game Studios cut the price of the console by $100, and reduced existing inventory of the Pro model to $249, and discontinued the latter. Unfortunately, Microsoft also eliminated the previously included HDMI cable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8863,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions\/8863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}