The Xbox 360 (Pre)orders thread

[MJ]

I had a look at the email doing the rounds in GAME stores regarding delivery of 360s, the majority of stock will be premiums, there will be two major shipments in the next two weeks with the biggest coming next week.

That backs up what a colleague was told at a Bristol Game store last week. He's still waiting for his Sept 2005 Amazon Premium pre-order, but while he was in Bristol he thought he would ask if they had any and they said no, but they would be "Raining from the sky next week."

The email states quite clearly that you don't need to buy a bundle but staff are being encouraged to push them (cheapest one was Premium 360 + Kong for 300 quid) so if they try to force you into buying a bundle tell them to piss off. It aslo mentions that 360 shipments in February will be almost non existant so this will be folks' best chance of getting one for another while yet.

At least there's some incentive with that ?300 bundle, like vocoderfreak said, you're getting Kong for around ?20 (except Ubisoft said it looks too dark on the 360 without a HDTV), unlike many of the recent forced bundles that are basically retail price.

Are there any bundles that include at least PDZ LE and how much?

[vocoderfreak]

That backs up what a colleague was told at a Bristol Game store last week. He's still waiting for his Sept 2005 Amazon Premium pre-order, but while he was in Bristol he thought he would ask if they had any and they said no, but they would be "Raining from the sky next week."



At least there's some incentive with that ?300 bundle, like vocoderfreak said, you're getting Kong for around ?20 (except Ubisoft said it looks too dark on the 360 without a HDTV), unlike many of the recent forced bundles that are basically retail price.

Are there any bundles that include at least PDZ LE and how much?

You could get other titles with a premium or a core, but those others all seemed to be at the usual retail price.

[vocoderfreak]

Well, just had a call from Game that I can go in and collect this afternoon. Premium pack + Kong, ?300. Woo-hoo!!!

[smallvillex]

Nice one!

[MJ]

The main Game store in Swindon had 10 Premiums in this morning, so I have just called and reserved one of the last ones. I asked them about the bundles and they said that it's supposed to be specific games, but I could pick whatever I wanted, so:

Premium + 1 = ?300
Premium + 2 = ?330
Premium + 3 = ?370

At the moment I've gone for the ?330 bundle with PDZ LE and CoD2, that works out at ?25 per game.

They don't have any accessories in store at the moment, but are due 48 more consoles next week (they were unsure of the mix of Premiums and Cores).

They said the reason they are getting so much stock is that they are getting Gamestation's allocation due to the company going bust.

[vocoderfreak]

Gamestation gone bust?!

[anephric]

Blockbuster are going bust, and hence I think Gamestation's supply has gone up the spout.

[KaLoZoiS]

im gonna cry

i spent over 550 on my console what with

german console 330
pdz 40
ridge 45
vga + play charge 50
membership 40
points 40

i wish i waited in fact i feel kind of sick now i put that in writing im a student... with exams, why did i do this....

[Crisp_Rapper]

yup, they definately have them in stock... just been into harrogate game, they now have 4 left as of 15 minutes ago.

whoever posted that up, you're a legend and now owe me ?300

[Yoshimax]

Crisp when the **** are you going to get one ?

Time you came downtown in CallofDuty-ville.

[Crisp_Rapper]

Crisp when the **** are you going to get one ?

Time you came downtown in CallofDuty-ville.

got one about 25 minutes ago... with call of duty. hook me up!!!!!!!!!!

[bignige]

Sounds like he may have just bought one?

[MJ]

I now have a Premium 360!

I got the last Play & Charge Kit and Wired Controller from Dixons (they had one HDD left), but may return them and buy them at a different Game store that has them in stock to get Reward points (might as well).

[1P_King]

Finally got my hands on a premium on friday and is never been off since, just took a break to do some work.

I brought it from Game (Manchester, Trafford Centre) no bundles and never offered one just sold it to me with wht ever i wanted, I know game have taken a bit of critisium but they were great with me.

PGR3 is just amazing done all the bronze medels starting the silver ones soon, call of duty 2 is fantastic as well just done the d-day mission and i'm just blown away with everything.

well done microsoft

[smallvillex]

Guys i have 1 reserved for tomorrow. Picked 1 up today and getting another 1 tomorrow and then about 11 next week. If anyone wants to meet me, they can come with me and take my reserved one if they want.