I love black friday deals, but I hate the fact you have to pretty much leave thanksgiving dinner early drive to the store and camp out for 14 hours to MAYBE get one.

I love a deal as much as the next guy but lines have to be drawn somewhere.

sounds really cool, even though Halo 3 online is tempting i believe that to get another 360 would be kind of stupid, since my first one has the red lights and Microsoft won't fix it. Looking for the Ps3, but i doubt the price will drop on it, i have a feeling that they are just going to throw in a game or something.

Umm, the date shown is THIS Saturday, not Black Friday... no camping necessary. Sounds like a sweet deal.

WOW thats an awesome DEAL!

Wow, that's darn good.

World... This is how America does holiday sales. It always amazes me to see people sleeping outside of stores to get to these deals.

also posted on wal-mart.com

Do I really need a HDD for this to play games and stream files from a networked computer?

I wonder if the idiots will storm the store and trample a security guard to death like last year...

Bummer. If it was any other company but Walmart....

Meh.. the arcade has been $200 bucks for a while. Last year, the now defunct Circuit City has a 20GB/Controller combo for $40. I also got a 40GB PS3 2 years ago with the same deal, $399 + $100 dollar gift card which I promptly spent on GTA4 and a controler.

It's a pretty nice deal, but can't say I'll be camping out at walmart for it. Too many people end up getting assaulted and murdered on Black Friday for my liking. Hope all of you who are going shopping on Black Friday stay safe.

I did a recent check. The 'Arcade 360' is $260.00 (or higher), in the UK. No games..no gift card. On 'Black Friday' my mood of resentment for Microsoft's international sales tactics remains just that..black.

America is broke. Although, to some people the fact they can grab a machine to play NFL is quite possibly more important to them than the fact their economy is up the paddle, and they have a puppet running the show.

fulle, no disprect to you..I tried to post a response to ExtremePCs's comment, but clicked on the wrong one by accident.

It's an arcade version goofy people!
Yeah, it's cheap but it's going to cost a lot more in the long run.
My gawd people are so gullible.
Do some research first.

I was thinking about a Xbox360, is this a good deal? I don't need wireless controllers/headset/router or anything fancy colors. I would have no problem spending the $100 gift card on a HDD.

So, overall, is this a good deal?

"for first-time buyers"

Implying that we should take this opportunity to buy yet another xbox.

I love how everyone keeps saying how they hate black Friday deals, not worth the hassle of lines etc...I don't know when you celebrate Thanksgiving, but black Friday is usually the day after where I live, which is the 27th. this deal is on the 7th........Good deal if you have a busted Xbox with a HDD already.

oh how nice they give you $100 gift certificate with it so when your looking for a replacement after 6-12 months due to it giving them the RROD then they can go back to Walmart and use the gift certificate to buy a replacement

Thanks giving is for those people who MIGHT/MAYBE thank God once a year.....when they should do it everyday.

What a waste.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/compare101.htm

I dunno, this seems like a decent thing, if you dont plan on playing any older XBox games. The HD, and the ability to play XBox 1.0 games appears to be the only real difference between the Arcade and the Elite..

Hey genius, Microsoft has a 3-year warranty on RROD and E74, Only an idiot would buy a new one in 6-12 months when Microsoft will do it for free. Maybe you're just an idiot.

or maybe i just know better not to waste my money on poor quality harware

and talk to the people who are still waiting for a box from MS after close to a moth just to wait up to another month just to get a refurbished xbox back that will no doubt fail on them too

it could be a lifetime warranty and it would still not be worth the headaches of owning that console.

By the way, the gift card comes bundled in the package which means you have to open the box to get to it.
That means you will have to pay $199 to get to the $100 gift card which is only redeemable at Walmart of course.
Just in case you are planning on using the gift card toward the purchase of the XBox, that's not going to happen.
So go right ahead and mob the Walmart store and even if you manage to camp out there and get one ahead of the rest of the demented people you will still have a really poor quality system that will cost you hundreds of dollars in the long run to maintain.

what if i buy 2, and then return them, and then buy one with the gift card?

p.s. captain charisma stop being a fan boy, besides xbox Live destroys playstation network.

Well... I showed up to Walmart to get this deal.. apparently they where out of the consoles?

Yep.. bait and switch.. I saw a few people come in and ask for the 360 arcade on Saturday, and where turned away..

scam!

I think my local WallyWorld must have had all of about 3 to sell. What garbage that is. They probably went to the morons who get there at 4am too.

Oh, to all of you douche bags ragging this deal, you dont have to buy it. Yes thats right, you indeed do not have to. Since when is a 100 dollar gift card a bad thing? Its mind boggling the idiocy some people display. Oh and memo to political guy, GTFO, this is a discussion about a good deal on an XBOX not about why you dont like Walmart and how America is doomed.

Bottom line is these new Arcade versions, from what I have read, have the new mobo that does not rrod. Pretty safe buy imo, pick up a used HDD and another controller and you're set.