..and yet the price cut does not compel me to buy an Xbox one. Owned a 360 before but honestly I don't know what will convince me to pick one up. It's like some sort of mental dissociation on a subconscious level.. Sony imbeding subliminal messages in their movies and trailers? ....must go see magnificent seven with Denzel Washington...
I still dont see no must play games on the Xbox one. But to be fair minus Uncharted no real must play on PS4. Best games this gen have been multi platform at least in my opinion. I already own ps4 an xbox one would be redundant when i dont see any games on the horizon that have me excited. Perhaps gears of war tho
They may want to keep a cheaper version on the market for the budget conscious. X1S is the first "slim" which is actually more than the model it's replacing, which is kind of untested in the market. Extra features may not matter to most without a 4K TV, so that puts the Xbox about on par with the PS4 price wise since I feel the PS4 will probably get a price drop soon as well.
Looks like there are bunch of old fat Xbones on the shelves and also looks like sales for fat Xbones are damn bad when MS offered such a low price. You can also buy Xbone for 209$ at Newegg : http://www.ebay.com/itm/381...
The brand value of the Xbox One is dropping badly, if they having firesales on this. I'll bet that fat Xbone will be 200$ during this holiday. You still can find Day One editions. PS4 is still selling along at $349 and still remains in the lead, Microsoft might have a reason to be concerned.
EDIT ; LOL at disagree votes. Xbone fans should understand this : You don't do these moves when your are comfortable at your sales, clearing stock or not.
I'll bet that PS4 won't be at that price when Slim will be announced.
That's exactly what they are doing. They aren't manufacturing anymore bulky XB1's and they need to clear out that inventory for the XB1 S. I won't be surprised to see the original XB1's at $200 come November.
@dirkdady I don't think anyone cares. It doesn't make me want to buy a PS4 Neo or PSVR in October either. I'm not buying any new hardware this holiday season and I doubt anyone really cares. For anyone who wants a cheap bulky XB1 at a cheap price, now is the time or wait until November for even better deals.
It's getting sold for 160€ or less, used, where I live and no one buys them... Some stores won't give you over 75€ for one. The new S model made the original Xone kinda worthless.
Why not just permanently drop it to that what with the 1tb available the White 2tb Xbox one s due imminently and then the gears version and around a year later the Scorpio might as well drop these 500gb's down permanently get rid and discontinue.
Because if people think it's a limited sale, they'll be more likely to try and get it while it's cheap. It's a psychological thing. But this sale has been seen going through various retailers since before E3 now, and likely it will remain there like the last limited time sale....last year about this same time or the holidays...can't remember which.
But why all the smoke and mirrors just be up front and say we can sell it for this price so we will not catch us on a bad day and you'll pay more if we feel like it well knock £50/$50 off that week.
Like I said, it's a psychological thing. MS unofficially reduced the price last year and then it became the regular price going forwards.
Smoke and mirrors may be them testing the market, and if the sale doesn't drive sales to the point they want it to, they'll keep the price low. If it sells more than they hoped, they'll raise it back up, because they know the demand is there.
Even on the 360, they reduced the price by $50 before the release of the slims, and they kept them there, and eventually dropped them another $50 to clear out stock.
It's just kind of common in business, and for the most part, when it comes to consoles that aren't being packaged by store level retail bundles, when you see a lot of them happening, the price is about to drop officially. It's a bit different in the EU, where RRP is more of a thing, but here in the states many big retailers sign contracts to not compete on price of the system alone, and only sell it at MSRP, but can oddly sell it for less if they bundle something else with it.
Nice to make room for the S, but they want you guys to trade in Xbox when the Scorpio comes out so the most they will pay would $100-150 for the Xbox one.
Not even the Wii U is going for a firesale at $250 yet.
I've never seen so many frequent widespread price cuts so frequently in a console's lifespan. Not that I'm complaining since deals are always a great thing.
Gotta clear out stock and make room for the S
Considering stock is apparently low for the S I would've thought they might have waited a little bit to clear stock unless they've got a lot of stock
It's getting sold for 160€ or less, used, where I live and no one buys them... Some stores won't give you over 75€ for one. The new S model made the original Xone kinda worthless.