Microsoft unloads 500 GTA IV Xbox 360 Elite consoles

While folks at the Xbox 360 repair lab know good and well how to strip a console back to its birthday suit, Microsoft is going the opposite direction with its limited run of Grand Theft Auto IV Elites. The console itself is purportedly blasted with automotive quality paint and each one is individually numbered. Apparently, the 500 units -- which look to come with a case full of peripherals -- are only being dished out to press outlets and the like, so it seems your only shot at actually acquiring one is by scouring the second hand market. Or you could just steal one and toss a Molotov cocktail behind as you're getting away -- that'd be fitting, we guess.

[Via Xbox360Fanboy]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2008 12:07AM]

It's already started to show up.

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/4755/n5089475186590127727yd2.jpg

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2008 12:24AM]

These should be what people get back from sending their machine in for the red ring of death!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2008 12:55AM]

They should make a level in the game where you have to storm a heavily guarded compound to get this console

[SOOPERGOOMAN Posted Mar 22nd 2008 1:42AM]

40 dAYS TO GO....

[HumongousBlunt Posted Mar 22nd 2008 2:19PM]

Yeh, Engadget is sort of Apple-biased. If they'd had led off with some ad like this before introducing the custom XBox GTAIV, I might have been really upset:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPObm2GwQTQ

But they didn't, so Engadged must be showing Microsoft some love. All is forgiven, Engadget.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2008 4:23AM]

great.... so it can rrrod on me? no thanks. ill take my ps3 and like it for idk.... 10 years..

[Jonthomasdesigns Posted Mar 22nd 2008 10:44AM]

Who the hell wants a game system for IDK 10 years ??? you know much cool tech will drop in 10 years , i want a roll over every 4-5 years to keep up .. who cares its just $500 not like its a car you need for 10 years

[Jonthomasdesigns Posted Mar 22nd 2008 10:46AM]

Oh and my PS3 got the Sony Blinking light of death on me a few months ago , sony replaced it but it still sucked

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 23rd 2008 6:45AM]

I personally would like to see planes included, however, maybe with the proviso that if you fly too close to protected buildings you have military jets come and take your down.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2008 7:03AM]

Heheheh
360 is slowly, slowly slipping in the 3rd place in the console war and 360 fanboys are starting to get less relaxed and more aggressive. Logical I guess.

It is logical after all.
360 is 3rd in Europe already since 2007 and the PS3 is barely a year out there,
it's 3rd in Japan and has no chance of surviving there
and since 2008 it is 3rd in sales in the USA.

I can say that the crappy PS3 "without any games" is kicking some serious ass to the ultimate 360 with lots of games.

Oh and don't forget while PS3 already outsells the 360, the PS3 has actually shit lots of exclusive titles coming out this year.

So yes it makes sense 360 fanboys are less relaxed and more aggressive nowadays..

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2008 4:08PM]

When it has more installed units than the 360 it'll be "kicking some serious ass", until then, it's just "catching up"

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2008 6:34PM]

True. 360 fanboys get aggressive because the PS3 is catching up, if the PS3 had more installed units and kicking serious ass I suppose they would be more quiet.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2008 7:54AM]

I'm Olya, and I'm a great big ass hat.
I have sex with horses.
I drink my own urine, just to entertain myself.
I am married with 9 children to an 84 year old woman.
I suck.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 23rd 2008 9:51PM]

hahahahahahahaha

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2008 9:48AM]

I got my Halo3 for absolutely free i just won a competition heheheheh

Hows that for luck!

Regards,
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[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2008 10:35AM]

MjW, you seem to talk a lot of "fanboys"... Could it be that you're one yourself? The PS3 is a good console, but it is indeed only catching up, and at this rate, unless '08's lineup gets about 9-10 million consoles out quick, it will still be behind the times, and chances are, that won't happen.

Considering that the 360 has been out for a while now, it is only logical that it would be slowing in sales numbers, while the PS3, only now starting to see what was promised a year or 2 ago (sort of), would be picking up... Too bad that Gears of War 2 will be 360 exclusive and will seal a victory for the 360 in '08- and that's not a fanboyish perspective, as I'm sure you would claim it is, it is pure "logic".

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 6th 2008 10:46PM]

This is so sweet! If I hadn;t already gotten a free 360 elite then I would've bought this!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 30th 2008 3:25PM]

Hi All, anyone played GTA IV yet? I want to get it, but I found myself bored with the last couple versions, has it really changed enough or is it similar to the older gameplay, I know graphically it's much better..

Thanks,
Lane