{"id":24,"date":"2005-08-18T10:21:30","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T09:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2005-08-18T10:21:30","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T09:21:30","slug":"how-fckin-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/18\/how-fckin-much\/","title":{"rendered":"How F@ckin&#8217; much?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pricing for <tag>Xbox 360<\/tag> has finally been announced:<\/p>\n<p> Core System priced at $299.99 (299.99 Euros \/ 209.99 pounds) &#8211; with <em>Wired<\/em> Controller (how last year is that??)<\/p>\n<p> For $399.99 (399.99 Euros \/ 279.99 pounds) you get the Delux version with  20GB drive, wireless controller, headset, and remote.<\/p>\n<p>Funny that if you do the maths &#8211; we&#8217;re getting robbed in the UK \/ Europe &#8211; prices are \u00c2\u00a345\/\u00e2\u201a\u00ac58 and \u00c2\u00a360\/\u00e2\u201a\u00ac77 more than the direct conversions from $<\/p>\n<p>Peripherals aren&#8217;t cheap either:<\/p>\n<p>Hard Drive (20 GB) &#8211; \u00c2\u00a369.99\/\u00e2\u201a\u00ac99.99 (pretty pricey don&#8217;t you think?)<br \/>\nMemory Unit (64 MB) &#8211; \u00c2\u00a322.99\/\u00e2\u201a\u00ac34.99<br \/>\nHeadset &#8211; \u00c2\u00a314.99\/\u00e2\u201a\u00ac19.99<br \/>\nWireless Controller &#8211; \u00c2\u00a332.99\/\u00e2\u201a\u00ac34.99<br \/>\nRechargeable battery pack &#8211; \u00c2\u00a39.99\/\u00e2\u201a\u00ac14.99 (lasts for 25 hours apparently)<br \/>\nWireless Networking Adapter &#8211; \u00c2\u00a359.99\/\u00e2\u201a\u00ac79.99 (eek!)<br \/>\nUniversal Media Remote &#8211; \u00c2\u00a319.99\/\u00e2\u201a\u00ac29.99<br \/>\nSCART AV Cable &#8211; \u00c2\u00a317.99\/\u00e2\u201a\u00ac24.99<br \/>\nVGA HD AV Cable &#8211; \u00c2\u00a319.99\/\u00e2\u201a\u00ac29.99<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; props to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/entry\/1234000173054784\/\"><tag>Joystiq<\/tag><\/a> for the prices and the conversions to \u00e2\u201a\u00ac and \u00c2\u00a3!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pricing for Xbox 360 has finally been announced: Core System priced at $299.99 (299.99 Euros \/ 209.99 pounds) &#8211; with Wired Controller (how last year is that??) For $399.99 (399.99 Euros \/ 279.99 pounds) you get the Delux version &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/18\/how-fckin-much\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBD-o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}