Microsoft Announces $499 Xbox One "ELITE", w/ High-End Controller, Hybrid HDD

From DailyTech: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) in June announced a new $399 USD SKU of its Xbox One console. The $50 extra bought you a 512 Gigabytes (GB) extra of storage, bumping the internal hard drive capacity of the console to 1 Terabyte (TB). Alongside the new higher capacity console, Microsoft also announced a new Xbox One "ELITE" wireless controller for "hardcore gamers", which featured reprogrammable buttons and other niceties traditionally only seen in third party controllers.

Today Microsoft announced a number of new offerings for pre-order, including a $499 bundle which includes an ELITE controller.

In addition to the incoming custom Forza Motorsports 6 (9/7; $65 USD) and a Master Chief Halo 5 custom controller (9/27; $70 USD) Microsoft is also offering a separate limited edition controller in a "Lunar Gold" white/gold color scheme, priced at the same $65 USD sticker. (The standard controller is jet black.) It will be available exclusively from Gamestop Corp. (GME).

Perhaps the more intriguing option for those who aren't diehard Halo fans, is the just-announced equally priced ELITE bundle. For the $100 USD premium over the base rate for a 1 TB console, you first get an ELITE controller, which retails for a cool $150 USD. At a markup of $90 USD over the base controller, the ELITE controller alone justifies (well, sort of) most of the console bundle's $100 USD markup.

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