Xbox 360 4GB Kinect Bundle $249.99 - 8/28 Sunday Ad at Walmart

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[quote name='CheapyD']A reliable source tells me this is actually an error, but Walmart will honor it for the week.[/QUOTE]
 
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Hot news! Thanks for the info.

More importantly :
1) is this drop universal?
2) if it is universal, it should stack with Target's weekly ad deal next week (Buy 4 GB Kinect Bundle and get $60 GC free)!
 
[quote name='Decker']Hot news! Thanks for the info.

More importantly :
1) is this drop universal?
2) if it is universal, it should stack with Target's weekly ad deal next week (Buy 4 GB Kinect Bundle and get $60 GC free)![/QUOTE]

i really hope it stacks, if so i know where i will be Sunday
 
[quote name='Decker']Hot news! Thanks for the info.

More importantly :
1) is this drop universal?
2) if it is universal, it should stack with Target's weekly ad deal next week (Buy 4 GB Kinect Bundle and get $60 GC free)![/QUOTE]

not universal, walmart promotion only. its not a microsoft drop.
 
[quote name='cheeky']WHAT that's insanely cheap[/QUOTE]

Are you kidding right? It's only $50 lower and there is a lot of $50 gift card deals floating around in the past 6 months.
 
[quote name='foreinter']Are you kidding right? It's only $50 lower and there is a lot of $50 gift card deals floating around in the past 6 months.[/QUOTE]

I don't know about you but I'd rather have $50 more in my pocket, which I can spend anywhere I please.

I'll wait for the 250gb console to drop down to this price.
 
[quote name='foreinter']Are you kidding right? It's only $50 lower and there is a lot of $50 gift card deals floating around in the past 6 months.[/QUOTE]

And it's also the Kinect bundle.

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[quote name='Redeema']If the Gears 360 drops, too. I'm buying a new 360.[/QUOTE]

Ya, a $50 drop may make me jump in on the Gears 360.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']not interested unless they take out kinect and put in a 250gb hard drive.[/QUOTE]

i think BB is giving a $75 GC with the purchase of a 250 GB xbox (the one w/out kinect) on the 28th.

highly unlikley the gears console will drop right now...down the road? sure if there's any left but remember it does come with the game, an extra d pad controller, and a 320 GB HDD.
 
Psst' Since this is a price drop and not a sale, you can probably try your luck to have them pricematch Target's upcoming weekly ad which offers a $60 GC with the purchase of this bundle. Walmart's PM policy doesn't exclude gift cards. At worst, you end up getting an extra $10 GC on top of only spending $250. At best, you end up getting the full $60 GC while only spending $250.
 
[quote name='BobbyTastic']Psst' Since this is a price drop and not a sale, you can probably try your luck to have them pricematch Target's upcoming weekly ad which offers a $60 GC with the purchase of this bundle. Walmart's PM policy doesn't exclude gift cards. At worst, you end up getting an extra $10 GC on top of only spending $250. At best, you end up getting the full $60 GC while only spending $250.[/QUOTE]

this is a temporary sale, not a price drop via microsoft

cant believe the article wasnt in OP

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/25/rumor-walmart-dropping-xbox-360-4gb-kinect-bundle-to-249-on-au/
 
[quote name='yahoosale14']this is a temporary sale, not a price drop via microsoft

cant believe the article wasnt in OP

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/25/rumor-walmart-dropping-xbox-360-4gb-kinect-bundle-to-249-on-au/[/QUOTE]

It was never stated to be a temporary sale...

[quote name='Microsoft Statement']Walmart made an independent decision to implement this temporary price cut. We've made no announcements about price drops, and do not discuss our pricing plans in advance[/QUOTE]

All they said is "we haven't announced anything yet, and we won't until it happens"
 
Don't forget Wally world also dropped the 3ds early also. But that one was announced long before they did also. But here's to hoping for a drop
 
4GB HD just seems too small to bother with these days, considering all the XBLA stuff plus the games that have mandatory hard disk installs.
 
[quote name='JoshTX']4GB HD just seems too small to bother with these days, considering all the XBLA stuff plus the games that have mandatory hard disk installs.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, it's useless, but you can grab a 16 GB USB drive for $20 and use that.
 
[quote name='Decker']Yeah, it's useless, but you can grab a 16 GB USB drive for $20 and use that.[/QUOTE]

Some features in games are unavailable without a proper HDD. For example, when Halo Reach launched you couldn't play co-op using the 4 GB system or with an external drive. They claimed it would be fixed, but I don't know that it has been.
 
[quote name='JoshTX']4GB HD just seems too small to bother with these days, considering all the XBLA stuff plus the games that have mandatory hard disk installs.[/QUOTE]

You do realize it's NOT a 4GB HD right? It's flash memory stored inside. There's no hard drive.
 
[quote name='Jimmienoman']Don't forget Wally world also dropped the 3ds early also. But that one was announced long before they did also. But here's to hoping for a drop[/QUOTE]

I my opinion Nintendo knew the price would leak like this and the infamous CC leak. So they announced it before it could leak. I suspect MS didn't bother to do the announcement.
 
I hope the other bundles drop too. Even so it would still be cheaper to buy this bundle then add the hard drive for $89 from amazon.com instead of getting the $400 kinect bundle.
 
[quote name='SaraAB']I hope the other bundles drop too. Even so it would still be cheaper to buy this bundle then add the hard drive for $89 from amazon.com instead of getting the $400 kinect bundle.[/QUOTE]

You can actually get a hdd for cheaper than $89: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004GX4864. I just bought one for myself and it works perfectly. It's not OEM and doesn't have the original xbox partition, but you can just add it yourself if you really want it.
 
[quote name='SaraAB']Isn't using an unofficial hard drive a good way to get yourself banned from Xbox live?[/QUOTE]

Hypothetically but MS hasn't banned any consoles or users for doing this. Personally I don't find it worth the risk just to save ~$60 on a hard drive... a new console costs a bit more than that.
 
I don't think its worth the risk either, if you are gonna invest in MS invest properly. If you don't, don't come crying here when you get banned from XBL. Also I am looking for backwards compatibility which is something the 3rd party hard drives do not offer.
 
I didn't do anything to the hard drive, just put it in my 360, it's not hacked or anything. It's just not "official" Microsoft. How would they know it's not official? I understand them banning people for piracy and whatnot and I'm sure they can tell if it's not an official game that way. But using a 3rd party hard drive is just hardware, not software. Whoever made it put the same files on it that Microsoft puts on their official ones make the xbox read it.

Sorry about getting all defensive about it. When I bought it on Amazon, there was no comments about getting banned other than from people who were "OEM or nothing", so I'm a little taken aback that Microsoft would consider banning people for not using their overpriced harddrive. Illegal games, yes. Non official hard drive, that's just stupid.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']not interested unless they take out kinect and put in a 250gb hard drive.[/QUOTE]

Ebay the kinect... buy a hard drive with the funds... problem solved. Thank you.
 
[quote name='oasisboy']Ebay the kinect... buy a hard drive with the funds... problem solved. Thank you.[/QUOTE]

or...wait a couple of weeks for the matte 250gb which will probably have GCs too
 
Which page in the Walmart ad is the Xbox 360 deal suppose to be on?

I have the newspaper weekly ad and I don't see it anywhere, and the online weekly ad doesn't have it either. Zip code 93292 if anyone wants to check online.
 
[quote name='kme06d']I didn't do anything to the hard drive, just put it in my 360, it's not hacked or anything. It's just not "official" Microsoft. How would they know it's not official? I understand them banning people for piracy and whatnot and I'm sure they can tell if it's not an official game that way. But using a 3rd party hard drive is just hardware, not software. Whoever made it put the same files on it that Microsoft puts on their official ones make the xbox read it.

Sorry about getting all defensive about it. When I bought it on Amazon, there was no comments about getting banned other than from people who were "OEM or nothing", so I'm a little taken aback that Microsoft would consider banning people for not using their overpriced harddrive. Illegal games, yes. Non official hard drive, that's just stupid.[/QUOTE]

Apparently its against the Live TOS to use an unofficial hard drive, now if you are not connecting to live then I see no problem with it. Microsoft has sticky posts about it on their forums.

Its also against the TOS to use an older XBox hard drive in the slim Xbox 360 even if its an official one. I am guessing this is because you have to take off part of the case to get it in there and that is technically modding. There is also a sticky topic about this on Microsoft's forums. You can only use the official Microsoft 250GB hard drive in a slim xbox and it has to be the slim version. Again if you are not connecting to live then I see no problems with this. I suspect there will be bannings for this because it wouldn't be very hard to detect which slim xbox's have the older hard drives.
 
[quote name='SaraAB']Apparently its against the Live TOS to use an unofficial hard drive, now if you are not connecting to live then I see no problem with it. Microsoft has sticky posts about it on their forums.

Its also against the TOS to use an older XBox hard drive in the slim Xbox 360 even if its an official one. I am guessing this is because you have to take off part of the case to get it in there and that is technically modding. There is also a sticky topic about this on Microsoft's forums. You can only use the official Microsoft 250GB hard drive in a slim xbox and it has to be the slim version. Again if you are not connecting to live then I see no problems with this. I suspect there will be bannings for this because it wouldn't be very hard to detect which slim xbox's have the older hard drives.[/QUOTE]

Not to mention, those "modded" unofficial drives are all flashed using the same software (and thus, likely have the same stock serial number). I bet that's super easy to trace.
 
[quote name='SaraAB']Also I am looking for backwards compatibility which is something the 3rd party hard drives do not offer.[/QUOTE]

Mine offers that...

[quote name='kme06d']I didn't do anything to the hard drive, just put it in my 360, it's not hacked or anything. It's just not "official" Microsoft. How would they know it's not official? I understand them banning people for piracy and whatnot and I'm sure they can tell if it's not an official game that way. But using a 3rd party hard drive is just hardware, not software. Whoever made it put the same files on it that Microsoft puts on their official ones make the xbox read it.

Sorry about getting all defensive about it. When I bought it on Amazon, there was no comments about getting banned other than from people who were "OEM or nothing", so I'm a little taken aback that Microsoft would consider banning people for not using their overpriced harddrive. Illegal games, yes. Non official hard drive, that's just stupid.[/QUOTE]

I agree, not to mention that Sony allows you to put any 2.5" HD in their system. I don't see Microsoft banning everyone with third-party HDDs. There are also tons of people who bought them through amazon/ebay/etc not knowing they were counterfeit. So you'll have lots of 'innocent' banned people. That having been said, I may bite on the inevitable ridiculous deal for a legit 320GB model once this holiday rolls around...

ON TOPIC: Nice deal, especially if people can get Walmart to add the $60 GC that Target advertises.
 
The point of the matter is if you violate the live TOS then there is always a possibility of being banned. You have to agree to the TOS in order to connect. I personally would rather spend a little more for a hard drive than have to get an entirely new console and possibly lose my live account and all my downloads (I have no idea if that can actually happen but I assume they can ban both your console and your live gamertag).

Now if you use the hard drive and don't connect to live that is another story, because there is no way for Microsoft to know what you are doing then.

I am waiting till the 250GB matte comes out, the holiday season is too close not to wait and I don't need the Xbox right away.
 
[quote name='CheapyD']A reliable source tells me this is actually an error, but Walmart will honor it for the week.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I was at Walmart today, and they have a sign posted that says it was an error, but they will honor it for the length of the ad.
 
[quote name='SaraAB']I don't think its worth the risk either, if you are gonna invest in MS invest properly. If you don't, don't come crying here when you get banned from XBL. Also I am looking for backwards compatibility which is something the 3rd party hard drives do not offer.[/QUOTE]

I highly doubt MS will ban 3rd party HDDs. There are lots of 3rd party HDDs out there that are passed off as 1st party on eBay and other places with convincing packaging that would easily fool uninformed people. If Microsoft suddenly pulls the banhammer on these people, they'd have a PR nightmare and lots of people would get banned without even knowing they had a 3rd party HDD.

3rd party HDDs can play BC games too, it's just that most people who make them don't bother putting in the partition to allow BC. If you're making the drive yourself, you can follow a guide out there if you want BC playable
 
[quote name='SaraAB']Apparently its against the Live TOS to use an unofficial hard drive, now if you are not connecting to live then I see no problem with it. Microsoft has sticky posts about it on their forums.

Its also against the TOS to use an older XBox hard drive in the slim Xbox 360 even if its an official one. I am guessing this is because you have to take off part of the case to get it in there and that is technically modding. There is also a sticky topic about this on Microsoft's forums. You can only use the official Microsoft 250GB hard drive in a slim xbox and it has to be the slim version. Again if you are not connecting to live then I see no problems with this. I suspect there will be bannings for this because it wouldn't be very hard to detect which slim xbox's have the older hard drives.[/QUOTE]

wow, really? thats.. well, just fucking gay. who the shit will use 4gb of storage space? THats NOTHING. especially when you consider all the DLC and junk that MS pushes. Honestly i dont know who the hell would ever really buy these cruddy 4gb hard driveless models theyre pushing

I cant belive they actually say you cant use a 3rd party HD. Friggin Microsoft. I miss the old days of just using a damn memory card. You could transport your saves anywhere, nothing was 'locked' onto one sonsole.. it was so much easier.

I think the PS3 lets you use whatever HD you want, doesn't it?
 
[quote name='Wario64']I highly doubt MS will ban 3rd party HDDs. There are lots of 3rd party HDDs out there that are passed off as 1st party on eBay and other places with convincing packaging that would easily fool uninformed people. If Microsoft suddenly pulls the banhammer on these people, they'd have a PR nightmare and lots of people would get banned without even knowing they had a 3rd party HDD.

3rd party HDDs can play BC games too, it's just that most people who make them don't bother putting in the partition to allow BC. If you're making the drive yourself, you can follow a guide out there if you want BC playable[/QUOTE]

That's my idea as well. I knowingly bought mine as a third-party hard drive because I really don't have the money right now to get an $85 hard drive that should cost $40. It's a very convincing hard drive, and honestly they tried too hard to make it look real. They clearly stated that it was't OEM. You can tell the the "made for 360" is fake as well as the fact that it doesn't say "250gb" on the pull tab, but it works just the same.

No one has complained about being banned because of it, and while the whole numerical system might be true, Microsoft should be more worried about people who are playing illegal games than people who buy a hard drive that doesn't say "Microsoft."

I have the free live account right now, since I was really just wanting the console for the arcade games and some of the exclusives. I don't know why you would get banned from a free service.

As far as the BC is concerned, all hard drives work the same way, with partitions, even Microsoft's "official" ones.

Sorry for introducing such a sour subject into this thread.

Back on topic, the Walmart deal is really great. You can't get a better deal on a new system with Kinect. I bought a Kinect off ebay for $75 shipped and that was the cheapest I've found. You can look at this deal like this: $199 for the system $50 for Kinect.
 
[quote name='dogmae']Yeah, I was at Walmart today, and they have a sign posted that says it was an error, but they will honor it for the length of the ad.[/QUOTE]

Mine has that paper up too. Says they will honor the price, but they won't take rainchecks on it, and mysteriously, they had none of these units out on the shelves. I guess they "sold out".
 
I don't see why consoles can't use SD or micro memory cards. They're cheap and can be bought almost any where and they'll take next to no space.
 
[quote name='Vap']I don't see why consoles can't use SD or micro memory cards. They're cheap and can be bought almost any where and they'll take next to no space.[/QUOTE]

if xbox skimped on the $0.50 disc scratch preventing part to save money, I'm sure they don't need or want to spend more on installing any additional ports that support portable media.
 
[quote name='SaraAB']Isn't using an unofficial hard drive a good way to get yourself banned from Xbox live?[/QUOTE]

I've used an 'unofficial' drive for over a year with no problems. As far as the 360 knows, it's an official drive - it's not at all like flashing a DVD drive to make it play copied games. It is seriously not something that Microsoft cares about and no one should be afraid to do it if they're interested in getting a cheaper or faster drive than the standard retail ones.
And you're even trying to spread FUD about using an official hard drive from a fat console in a slim one? Oh, come on. Such nonsense.
 
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