It is finally here, and surprise, surprise, out in our ol’corner of the world before the European and the Japanese launch. What are we talking about? Why, the Xbox 360 Elite, of course! Announcing its availability at the official Xbox forums, Mohit Anand, Country Manager of Microsoft India’s Entertainment and Devices Division said that the offer was available exclusively (at the moment) via the Indiatimes Store online for a whopping INR 34,990, which, if you are any good at international monetary conversions, works out to, oh, around $842. Or £423. Or €624. Or ¥96,132. No matter how many currencies your brain tries to take it in, this makes the Indian version of the console the costliest among all launch prices in the world, practically twice the price of the US version!

The charcoal black and chrome Xbox 360 Elite comes packaged with a 120 GB hard drive with almost 17 GB of preloaded content, a black wireless controller, a black wired headset, Component and Composite multi-AV cables, HDMI cable, optical and component audio dongle, an Ethernet cable and a data exchange cable, should you want to transfer your data and settings from your existing 20 GB HDD onto the 120 GB one.

Buy the Xbox 360 Elite at the Indiatimes Store

Join us in waving goodbye to purchasing power parity. And oh, did we mention that there’s still no official presence of the Xbox Live service in India? Yeah, that!

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By N2H

• Yadu Rajiv Says:
  August 18th, 2007 at 10:07 pm

  better to bother ur uncle, cousin or that relative that always sits u on their lap in the US better than this deal..