Microsoft Orders Another Manufacturer To Produce Blu-Ray Xbox This Year?

"A report from Taiwanese news source Economic Daily News says that Pegatron Technology—a recently formed subsidiary of Asus that shouldn't be confused with the Decepticon leader—has received an order from Microsoft to manufacture a Blu-ray equipped model of the Xbox 360. According to the report, Pegatron says that it plans to begin production on the HD version of the Xbox 360 soon, with plans to ship within the next six months, aiming for a pre-holiday release.

It won't be the first time we've heard talk about Microsoft gloming on to the format, as the DigiTimes recently pegged manufacturer Lite-On as a Xbox 360 Blu-ray drive maker and Sony executives hinted that its competitor was feeling Blu to the Financial Times. MS CEO Steve Ballmer recently went on record about the move away from HD-DVD, saying the company will "support Blu-ray in ways that make sense..."

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Students of marketing will know this is a controlled way by Microsoft to hype their next product. This is an uncomfirmed rumor at the time of this writing but it seems plausible if a manufacturer is saying this.

Best Buy's Big GTA IV Offer For Xbox 360

Kotaku writes: "...Best Buy's (and probably Microsoft's) Grand Theft Auto IV savings kamehameha. Buy GTA IV along any version of the Xbox 360, and get a $50 gift card as a sweet bonus. If you've been one of those woulda, coulda, shoulda gamers still holding out on this generation of systems, it's probably not a bad time to make the leap. We'll keep our eyes peeled for similar deals like a PlayStation 3 equivalent offer..."

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If you've been waiting for a deal, this is it. You could wait years before this gets cheaper overall, but you'd have ot wait a long time, by which time this will be old and outdated. The only better deal you could possibly get is from Ebay but there's always hounds looking for this exact same kind of deal, driving up the prices anyway.

Buy up folks!

New Xbox 360 Bundle Announced (Hope you can read European)

This bundle comes with an xBox 360 (obviously) and Project Gotham Racing 4 and Halo 3. All this can be yours for only 199 Euros!

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Thank you Premier Bill Gates for allowing glorious European Union empire to purchase the rare western tech of xBox 360! Thank you so much!