Xbox One has been discounted at online retailer Zavvi. There has been no word on an official price-cut from Microsoft, so do treat this as one retailer’s decision for now.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
Wardens Rising is looking like a promising new take on the ARPG genre, especially when played with friends.
"The Bristol-based (the UK) indie games publisher Auroch Digital and indie games developer Positech Games, today announced with great happiness and thrill that their hit-political title "Democracy 4: Console Edition", is coming to consoles (PS4, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch) via digital stores on June 5th, 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
They'll be using it as a loss leader, trying to make money back on the games.
Zavvi are going to hell anyway, along with most stores of their ilk like HMV.
tempting.... very tempting indeed
I already have the xbox one but a ton of my friends and colleagues at work are just waiting on a cheaper xbox one. But I imagine an official cut won't happen for a while.
It doesn't really look like an official price cut to me, more like a £20 off sale.
Sad price cut i thought more than 20 pounds MS $$$$$