Some interesting reading over at gamesindustry.biz.

The Premium Xbox 360 won’t benefit from a price cut this Christmas – but instead a HD-DVD and console package is due, spearheading a marketing drive of console bundles available from November.

Retail sources have indicated to GamesIndustry.biz that Microsoft is currently planning to price the standalone HD-DVD drive at GBP 199 (293 Euro), and to package it with two HD-DVD movies. The sources also suggested that Microsoft will bundle the Premium console and next-generation movie player together for under GBP 400 (589 Euro) – and that the price could even be as low as GBP 375 (552 Euros).

I think that doing the HD-DVD as a seperate addon is actually a good idea. I suppose that it would be nice to have it all in one unit (like the PS3) but I know loads of people who don’t have HDTVs so a HD-DVD drive is really pointless. Doing it as an addon keeps costs down and gets more people playing on the 360.

Anyway, more on this story here…