The Xbox Series X price has been slashed to a record low of $349 in the US

VGC writes: "At the time of publishing, Microsoft’s console can be purchased with or without Diablo 4 for $349 at Walmart.

Xbox Series X has an ERP of $499.99, although it’s price fell to as low as $400 in Black Friday promotions this month."

[Jin_Sakai]

Much needed as these things are just sitting on shelves collecting dust.

https://ibb.co/c3cfwmb

[spicelicka]

Great for Xbox owners, we get the cheapest consoles and the best subscription service. This has been the most rewarding console purchase I've ever made.

[Jin_Sakai]

You get everything but good games. The only thing that really matters.

[Hofstaderman]

Hows it great if you already have one already? Sure one can argue that sales may encourage developers to make games for it but lets face it they not selling hence the price slash. XBOX is in an awkward position to say the least, three years in and sales are already stagnant. A console should be hitting its stride in this period.

[crazyCoconuts]

You can spin this how you like, but a fire sale on a premium product is not generally a good sign.
You won't find the latest iPhone going for 30% under retail and there's a reason for that.

[F0XH0UND922]

Yikes, the bar is low with you guys, ha?

[spicelicka]

lmao you people realize Gamepass has a plethora of great games right? Some of the highest rated games are multiplatform. Exclusives are great if you care about those specific games. I've also had more fun with Halo Infinite that any other game this gen.

[Angyobangyo]

and excellent first party titles....oh wait!

[Mr_cheese]

What ports are people begging for?

[darthv72]

Hey Jin... Maybe now you will get that SX you were talking about... if you don't remember, here is the PM you sent me a while back.

"You know I was a huge PS4 fan last gen but this gen I’m more keen to Series X. Game Pass is just unbeatable. And with AKB games fixing to hit Game Pass it’s only going to get better."
466d ago - Mon 22 Aug

[northpaws]

@darthv72

That only meant people who had high hope are also losing interests, it is not a good thing.

[badz149]

if this is not going to make them outsell the PS5 in NA this month, they should just acknowledge already that they are in HUGE trouble instead of trying to keep spinning the truth

[Sonic1881]

And the price cut still won't help

[Minute Man 721]

The Xbox has good games

[Babadook7]

What it needs is great games. GP has very few or none of those.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

They need these to be permanent price cuts imo

[crazyCoconuts]

Not sure that's sustainable. Gotta be well below cost.

[jwillj2k4]

Not profitable but absolutely sustainable they are a trillion dollar company these sales mean nothing.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

That's point they need that consoles sales too

[just_looken]

Just like to remind everyone these consoles are 3 years old and there tech is going on 4 years old. They are just a glorified gaming laptop.

Just a 3700x/6700 Igpu with 16gb of ram and a old gen 4 nvme for wholesale cost there is 0 reason to sell these at full price. Heck phil last year saw sony raising the cost of the ps5 and why like why? then stated that they have no need to raise the cost.

https://www.ign.com/article...

But all the sony cult members thanked sony for the price increase in which sony sold out of consoles so xbox was like ok then raised there cost also.

I see playstation 5 sells for $750-800cad i laugh because for $100 more at most you can get a rtx 3060 gaming pc a full computer what a price scam ps5 is.

[DarkZane]

@just_looken "I see playstation 5 sells for $750-800cad i laugh because for $100 more at most you can get a rtx 3060 gaming pc a full computer what a price scam ps5 is."

Why would you pay 100$ more what is definitely worst? Not only the 3060 is a generation behind, it's basically a 1080p card.

Hell, I have a 3070ti in my computer and it's already very dated and that's a 1440p card.

[Einhander1972]

The actual cost of buying Microsoft products is infinitely higher.

[InUrFoxHole]

Kinda true. Time is money and there will be a lot of time spent on gamepass this holiday season. Good call. Keep up the good work chap

[BeHunted]

Microsoft did increase their online subscription... Oh, I mean Sony,

[Einhander1972]

PS Plus is still cheaper.

Microsoft confirms Xbox Series X and Xbox Game Pass price increases
https://www.techradar.com/g...

Xbox Game Pass will go up in price again, Phil Spencer confirms it’s inevitable
https://gamerant.com/next-x...

[BeHunted]

@Einhander1972

Xbox Game Pass Core is £6.99 per month on Microsoft's Store, which your link said its going up to £7.99 which never happened.

https://www.xbox.com/en-gb/...

On Cdkeys, Xbox Game Pass Core 12 months subscription is only £36.99, while PS Plus is £48.56

Xbox subscription service is cheaper.

[RedDevils]

Xbox Game Pass Core is the worst version of PS essential, which have over 100+ games, hell I have over 200+ from it.

[Einhander1972]

BeHunted

PlayStation Plus Premium $160 a year
Game Pass Ultimate for $180 a year.

PS Plus also offers around twice as many games and much better retro support full 4k Streaming (xcloud 1080p) and a Movie Collection.

PlayStation users also have PS Plus Extra as an option for $135, which is in many ways the rival of Ultimate for $45 less.

[crazyCoconuts]

I don't think we should use CDkeys for price comparisons personally.

[BeHunted]

@crazyCoconuts

12 months Subscriptions

Xbox Game Pass Core = £49.99

https://www.game.co.uk/en/m...

PS Plus Essential = £59.99

https://www.game.co.uk/weba...

Xbox online subscription service is still cheaper than PS Plus Essential.

[Angyobangyo]

lol, aruging over subscription services, just when you think the bar couldn't get lower.

[darthv72]

Hot damn... that's a hell of a deal! That is the same price as the new 1tb SS. They must be trying to clear stock in prep for the new 2tb SX.

[FatalityX77]

Yes. I would wait as the new controller is going to have features like what Nintendo and ps5 offer on their controller.

[crazyCoconuts]

Highly doubt that.

[InUrFoxHole]

It's possible they might announce the series x all digital.

[SonyStyled]

They announced the “adorably digital” series x a few weeks back

[InUrFoxHole]

Really?

[FatalityX77]

New models incoming and with wifi 6 finally and new gyro controller. Old models on the chopping block

[purple101]

good point, we saw from the FTC trial leaks they have a new controller to compete with dual sense.

and once again, this means, they will have released more consoles, than actual games.

to add: a further console will probably do more harm than good, thoroughly pissing off loyal fans, who have or could, feel the need to keep buying the new models, to feel like the have the latest and best.

[FatalityX77]

Funny how every one with with an I phone does this practically yearly as well, yet you think it's only a gamer issue. People will spend their money on what they want. Your fanboy bitterness is showing.

[crazyCoconuts]

Too late for a new controller standard mid-gen. Better luck next Gen.
Those plans were probably used as toilet paper in the MS Executive Bathroom

[Hofstaderman]

New models with no disc drive and same price as current Series X?

[SimpleSlave]

...Can we still use emulators on this thing without any issues from Microsawft?

[Duke19]

Never even occured to me to run emulators on newer consoles but after googling thats actually a pretty neat feature (and looks like people still have it working)

[ocelot07]

It's why I bought one. Emulators perform fairly decent

[autobotdan]

New Xbox Series console announcement at Game Awards show confirmed

[Duke19]

Its N4G so everybody is just gonna clown MS here, but that is not a bad price for that machine.

[Stanjara]

It doesn't sell.
People already have enough subscriptions IMO.

[lucian229]

still overpriced; i still wouldn't buy one

[Hypertension140]

I just purchased one, how can anyone pass this up? It's not like they'll be releasing a more powerful console this time around.

[SimpleSlave]

Bruv! They just announce the XBOX One X Jaguar. Codename: The CD-i!!!

Should've waited.

[jznrpg]

It’s been that way for over a week now. If PS5 was that cheap they would be sold out all over the world in a day.

My guess is they are trying to get rid of stock for the all digital version of series X

[Chocoburger]

Drop it another $100, and I'll bite for backwards compatibility.

[ocelot07]

Should run a promotion. Free Series X when buying a PS5 /S

[Jigga69]

Microsoft is desperate as usual.

[randomvoice]

And still they won't come near to outselling a PS5. Just shows how behind they are.

[Retroman]

The Xbox Series X price has been slashed to a record low of $349 in the US

Wish that apply to PS5 still waiting to buy one at reasonable price level.

[darthv72]

Target had the same $349 price for ps5 last week.

[Retroman]

Thanks for the info "Unfortunately " Seattle Target's is out of business
I'm a brick and mortar guy .

[babadivad]

That's a fantastic deal. My sis has been nagging me to buy her an Xbox. If I can find one at this price I just might jump on it.

[jznrpg]

Amazon had it at that price a week before Black Friday

[babadivad]

Not showing that price now. I did check about a month ago and it was $500. She wanted it before she left to college after break.

They're showing as 430 naked and 450 with Diablo. Still a great deal. Fuck it, I may grab the naked version now, a Game Pass subscription, and load it up with emulators.

It will be a fantastic Christmas gift for her.

[Stevonidas]

I wish they'd drop the price on the 2TB expansion cards...

[ironmonkey]

Hmm not even the Christmas holidays will save it. Unless your desperate.