Microsoft said that in the six years since its launch, this past Christmas has been the best one ever for the console. Comparing December 2008 sales to the year previous, the console had 100pc growth in France, the UK, Italy, Germany and Spain. Another thing Microsoft can boast about is that the Xbox 360 has [...]

Microsoft Corp cut the prices of its Xbox 360 video game console in Europe by up to 28 percent on Monday to try to spur sales in a key battleground in the fast-growing industry. This is the second price cut for the Xbox in Europe in less than a year.
Last August, Microsoft shaved 7 percent [...]

Microsoft is dropping its HD DVD add-on drive from its list of Xbox 360 add-ons, the software giant revealed this past weekend. The blame was placed firmly on “recent decisions made by Toshiba, Hollywood studios, and retailers”, but whoever’s responsible, Microsoft will “no longer manufacture new HD DVD players for the Xbox 360″.
The move comes [...]

Microsoft has set its sights on the family entertainment market with the launch of a new family-friendly ‘Xbox Arcade’ package.
The new console bundle has been launched in time for the Christmas market and will come bundled with family-oriented games such as ‘Pac-Man: Championship Edition’, ‘Uno’ and ‘Feeding Frenzy’. The console also features parental controls that [...]

Pre-order and launch sales for Halo 3 on Tuesday drove Microsoft’s Xbox 360 past competitors at retailer Amazon.com. The Xbox 360 Premium SKU ranked at No. 5 at Amazon’s Computer & Video Games division, an increase from a rank of No. 7 the week prior.
By comparison, Nintendo Co.’s Wii ranked at No. 7 and the [...]

Confirming what it admitted was the “worst kept secret” in the video game business, Microsoft on Tuesday announced its Xbox 360 Elite, an upgraded version of its 16-month-old next-generation console family.
Essentially, the new console, at $479, is set to include a 120-gigabyte hard drive, as well as an HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) port, an [...]