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[Dr. Zoidberg]

Gotta be pretty desperate to buy one now, there's a slightly more powerful coming this year (was that thread true?) and a much more powerful one coming next year. Buying a X1 now is a waste of money. If you're really desperate wait for the Slim, if you can handle it get Scorpio instead.

It will be interesting to see the degree that public acknowledgement of Neo and Scorpio will hurt sales of each platform until the new ones are released. Even though Neo wasn't at the E3 briefing, it was showing up in Facebook news feeds and whatnot so I imagine people who care enough to know what E3 is probably know Neo is coming too.

 

[UraMallas]

Called it.

Well, your top sentence is incorrect. Congrats.

 

[cosmicstarbeast]

Yeah, and people still did not buy it.

Please amaze us with your brilliant deductions.

 

[NeOak]

BestBuy has the Halo 5: Guardians Bundle for $300.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/microso...stom/4356601.p?id=1219735500072&skuId=4356601

Frankie can finally get one!

 

[Kilau]

Waiting for XBONE S

Spoiler

corpio

 

[xxracerxx]

Has there ever been a console with as many price drops? Genuinely curious.

The pricing has been more of a roller coaster than just straight up drops. It has been very interesting to watch.

 

[Tom Nook]

With the 4 games included?!

I'm IN.

edit: choose one.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Well, your top sentence is incorrect. Congrats.

You said graphically it's not different. That's not true.

1/2 points

EDIT: Actually, It's still correct. The console is the same from what I see. HDR doesn't change anything significant for gaming.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

Guess $299 wasn't moving consoles as much as MS wanted?

 

[NeOak]

Guess $299 wasn't moving consoles as much as MS wanted?

The new model will be 299. This is a standard clearance.

 

[MrBenchmark]

This is a great deal for people who don't care about the features that the S will offer and just want a good price.

If you don't have a 4K tv with the newest HDMI spec and possibly a AVR with newest specs then the S does nothing for you but save a little space.

 

[MaximusPayne]

Trade value most places for my 1tb console is around $130. I'll just put it in the bedroom and have a media box that I can play my x1 games on. The S will be my 4k player. Solved. 😉

 

[StereoVsn]

This is a great deal for people who don't care about the features that the S will offer and just want a good price.

If you don't have a 4K tv with the newest HDMI spec and possibly a AVR with newest specs then the S does nothing for you but save a little space.

Lower power potentially, faster CPU/GPU (nobody knows by how much and MS isn't saying), better resell value, more internal HD options.

 

[Cornbread78]

The "Choose 1 game" bundle has been $279 in Wal-Mart for a couple weeks now and has been selling pretty nicely. It is currently sitting on the shelf $70 cheaper than PS4, so that gap alone makes it a good value for casual customers.


Target all has it at $299 with a $30 GC back deal, so it comes out to about $269 at their stores right now.

 

[MrBenchmark]

Trade value most places for my 1tb console is around $130. I'll just put it in the bedroom and have a media box that I can play my x1 games on. The S will be my 4k player. Solved. 😉

That exactly what I'm doing my day one unit will go in my room and take the place of my PS3 and the S will go in my movie room. My son has his day one on a 1080P tv and when Scorpio come out then he gets the S. I never sell consoles I still have 2 extra 360 E in my closet as spares.

 

[Li Kao]

279 seems a bit much when the slim is starting at 299.

My thought exactly.

 

[StereoVsn]

The "Choose 1 game" bundle has been $279 in Wal-Mart for a couple weeks now and has been selling pretty nicely. It is currently sitting on the shelf $70 cheaper than PS4, so that gap alone makes it a good value for casual customers.

We shall see in June NPD thread buy May has been abysmal for MS and it's likely that June might be worse with the Model S and Scorpio reveals.

IMO, best bet right now is for refurb/used Xbone as prices got to be dropping like a rock on those.

 

[adamantypants]

Very tempting prices on some of those bundles. But at the same time, I don't need a VCR.

 

[BabyFaceKillah]

Please amaze us with your brilliant deductions.

He don't know anything...

He is a undercover fanboy trynna cover it by pretending to have interest in anything MS does.

 

[MaximusPayne]

Very tempting prices on some of those bundles. But at the same time, I don't need a VCR.

To be honest it doesn't look bad in an entertainment system.

 

[MrBenchmark]

Lower power potentially, faster CPU/GPU (nobody knows by how much and MS isn't saying), better resell value, more internal HD options.

Those are all great if course but people looking for cheap entry won't care.

I preordered the 2tb S but will never use that internal drive space.

The internal drive is irrelevant if you utilize external drives I will migrate my 16TB raid 0 to my S from my current unit.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

The new model will be 299. This is a standard clearance.

Its comes out later thought doesn't it? I thought only the $399 model would be available first.

 

[Cornbread78]

We shall see in June NPD thread buy May has been abysmal for MS and it's likely that June might be worse with the Model S and Scorpio reveals.

IMO, best bet right now is for refurb/used Xbone as prices got to be dropping like a rock on those.

I didn't say it was selling better than PS4, I just said it was selling very nicely, lol. I'll check more closely towards the end of the month.

 

[Chris1]

The "Choose 1 game" bundle has been $279 in Wal-Mart for a couple weeks now and has been selling pretty nicely. It is currently sitting on the shelf $70 cheaper than PS4, so that gap alone makes it a good value for casual customers.


Target all has it at $299 with a $30 GC back deal, so it comes out to about $269 at their stores right now.

I like the choose your game bundles, they should have that all the time. What's the point of having 10 different bundles at the holidays? Just do a 500GB choose your game, 1TB choose your game, 2TB choose your game and a white (black now?) around the time of a launch like SO/QB.

Having a ton of different bundles where the only difference is the games just seems pointless.

 

[MuttsAndMuscles]

At this point, the only one I'd spring for would probably be the Xbox One Elite bundle for $349. Nothing else is worth it for me at this point with my 3DS and PS4. I barely have enough time as it is to play those games.

 

[Cornbread78]

I like the choose your game bundles, they should have that all the time. What's the point of having 10 different bundles at the holidays? Just do a 500GB choose your game, 1TB choose your game, 2TB choose your game and a white (black now?) around the time of a launch like SO/QB.

Having a ton of different bundles where the only difference is the games just seems pointless.

Don't get me started with the 500 holiday bundles thing again.....

 

[Elandyll]

"Name your Game" bundle, soon to be the "Name your Price" bundle




/jk if not obvious. They want those old XB1 out of the shelves bad.

 

[j-wood]

It'll be really interesting to see if the S or the PS4 sells more during the first month of the S release.

 

[xxracerxx]

It'll be really interesting to see if the S or the PS4 sells more during the first month of the S release.

I mean, I would assume the S, right?

 

[Falchion]

That's smart, they needed to do that with the S coming out.

 

[UraMallas]

EDIT: Actually, It's still correct. The console is the same from what I see. HDR doesn't change anything significant for gaming.

Significant, no. But it does change it. It's not correct.

 

[maxcriden]

How soon can I expect to find one at $200 used by individual sellers? Maybe this Fall?

 

[j-wood]

I mean, I would assume the S, right?

You would think, but who knows? If the base X1 is selling so badly they are basically dropping the price each week, what if consumers don't give a fuck about the S and buy a ps4 anyways?

 

[kaydigi]

I may order the dell bundle with a $50 gift card.

 

[allan-bh]

Elite bundle for $349. Good deal for people that want the console and the Elite controller.

 

[Empyrean Heaven]

I've seen used ones going for as low as $200 online, I might pick one of those up. I'm mostly a PS4 gamer so I really only want one for a few exclusives (Gears 4, Halo, Rare Replay, Scalebound). I don't have a 4K TV so 4k video is useless to me, and hopefully devs don't just make games for Scorpio in mind and will scale down.

 

[Chris1]

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I just pasted your post into the OP since our topics got merged. Thanks

 

[Lone Wolf]

You would think, but who knows? If the base X1 is selling so badly they are basically dropping the price each week, what if consumers don't give a fuck about the S and buy a ps4 anyways?

People who want a cheap 4K blu Ray player will be buying this as well. It's a niche format right now, but that is still thousands sold to enthusiasts of audio/video.

 

[Norris1020]

Really tempted by the $300 Spring bundle....but that money would be better served for PS4 games this fall I guess.

 

[U2NUMB]

The new model will be 299. This is a standard clearance.

But the one out in August is the $399 model from what I can tell. The $299 sku is for later in the year. Unless something else has leaked today I am out of the loop. I know this as I pre ordered the 299 only to realize the release date has it as december so I switched to the 2tb option which is out in August.

Now it is totally possible they have plenty of old X1s to sell through that will hold them over till the cheaper new model.

 

[biggyfries]

Grabbed the halo bundle from Amazon. Wouldnt mind the new S, but I'm not waiting until the year's end for the 1TB model, and I don't need the fancy upgrades. Also grabbed the new Ori release, as that was $16 after Prime.

 

[schaft0620]

Bring me that Blue Forza Xbox One 1TB at $280 please.

 

[Wagram]

Am I supposed to buy it? They seem to want me to buy the S, Scorpio, or a PC.

Microsoft's marketing messaging is the worst.

 

[RedAssedApe]

they kind of have to drop the price...so there it is

 

[Pagusas]

Am I supposed to buy it? They seem to want me to buy the S, Scorpio, or a PC.

Microsoft's marketing messaging is the worst.

I think it assumes its audience shows a bit more brightness than you are displaying. Its an inventory clear out, nothing more. Not everyone has the money for the S and will be excited to get a system at the price (really you'll see it go even lower soon)

 

[chronic_archaic]

I just got mine for $350 with Gears and Rare plus a $50 gift card back in February. Would have loved a $350 elite bundle.

 

[graywolf323]

...better trade fast

GameStop is already only giving $100 for the 500GB models

 

[Miles X]

Gonna skip the S and get Scorpio, I doubt I'd get much for a launch 500gb in the UK anyway.

edit - £141 at Game. I'm surprised so high, but then remembered I bought it less than 2.5 years ago at £430 ...

 

[MrBenchmark]

Am I supposed to buy it? They seem to want me to buy the S, Scorpio, or a PC.

Microsoft's marketing messaging is the worst.

Yeah quick buy one or you'll have to buy the new one and won't get a controller /sarcasm

Message was clear.

Obviously IQ's are low during E3

 

[MANUELF]

Im surprised the kinect bundle cost as much as the regular console