How is this sad? What do you want them to do? pretend that sales do not matter and become irrelevant like Nintendo?
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Rumor: MS cuts the XO price to 349,99
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How is this sad? What do you want them to do? pretend that sales do not matter and become irrelevant like Nintendo?
It is most likely due to the GDDR5 chips dropping in price, so that wouldn't help MS. Most likely situation is simply them absorbing the cost to gain marketshare (with the hope/expectation to recoup from software sales and XBL)
Also don't expect the production cost savings for Sony to necessarily mean a price cut quickly. Moving to 8GB was expensive for them, so any savings probably helps put them closer to where they originally wanted to be in terms of any profit/loss per box. Plus of course their machine is selling well.
Solaire of Astora
Death by black JPN
I guess you're right. For those who aren't really paying attention, the price would seem to be dropping rapidly.
Mysterious
Banned
They are live-streaming a Gamescom press conference this year.
Riky
$MSFT
This is something MS need to do, last gen the 360 had better looking/running multiplats and a price advantage, making the PS3 an easy machine to ignore. They lost both those advantages this gen, getting one back makes sense. If people next month can get an X1 with Destiny for the price of a solus PS4 and the game looks the same it could change a few purchasing decisions.
Duxxy3
Member
So they get trashed for low sales, and then they get trashed for trying to fix low sales.
I bet this is coming before gamescom. We'll probably hear about it today or tomorrow.
Mushroomer25
Member
It reminds me a lot of how a lot of failed tech products start to get a narrative built around them. I remember Windows Vista getting a massive ad campaign touting the features, then a campaign advertising a cheap upgrade route, then a "Vista's not so bad!' campaign, and finally a "Windows 7 is so much better than Vista guys" campaign. I wasn't really following the issue at the time, but I knew from MS' own ads that something was amiss.
Simply Sami
Member
Got one at launch. But that's the risk of buying at launch.
Hopefully this and Halo helps the console. Competition is good, rather than Sony running away it, which is what some people would prefer for strange reason. I would prefer if all three sell well.
Make it £300 with Halo bundled in come fall and I can see it doing well.
Hopefully this and Halo helps the console. Competition is good, rather than Sony running away it, which is what some people would prefer for strange reason. I would prefer if all three sell well.
Make it £300 with Halo bundled in come fall and I can see it doing well.
In Europe? Doubtful.
I wouldn't hold my breath. Best you can hope for is 399 with a game becoming standard from now on.
EmptySpace
Banned
lol two price drops within a year after a new hardware launch. ahaha.
Duxxy3
Member
One, unconfirmed, price drop within a year.
I hope they do confirm it, it should be cheaper than a PS4.
HORRORSHØW
Member
where's the updated chalkboard?
Here in Germany you can already get a PS4 for 349 in some places.
UnluckyKate
Member
Well not surprising. Europe is lost. Germany being 4:1 against xbox one when MS wanted 40% of market share (and leave Sony and Nintendo with 30% each) I can see how they need to be super agressive with the prices.
US will still hold and the marketing in fall and Master Chief Collection should give them a bit of a boost but Europe seems like a very tough battle.
US will still hold and the marketing in fall and Master Chief Collection should give them a bit of a boost but Europe seems like a very tough battle.
Not necessarily. If they predicted better sales than this, then they may have production contracts with their suppliers at a certain price. If they are under shipping now due to lower demand, they'll either be piling them up in a warehouse but still paying the same price, or absorbing penalty costs for ramping down production early.
Simply Sami
Member
No, what hasn't helped in EU land is that they didn't bother releasing in countries where the 360 sold well in. Like Sweden for example.
Vinterbird
Member
Not being available in half of Europe hasn't helped.
All of the consoles have always been very US centric,but things are improving as Netflix and HBO is launching their streaming solutions throughout Europe. And I imagine that if Microsoft could, they would get an football deal in Europe with UEFA, but that's properly a pretty hard deal to make.
overdrivex
Banned
Can you tell me the first one?
A 50 drop is going to do absolutely nothing when you are getting outsold 5:1 in most european regions.
All this does is provide a tiny bump and otherwise a drain on Microsoft's wallet and profits. The price is really not the problem with the Xbox one, the consumer apathy is the problem.
A 50 savings is not going to make a undesirable product desirable. No-one is sitting on the fence for a few bucks difference.
All this does is provide a tiny bump and otherwise a drain on Microsoft's wallet and profits. The price is really not the problem with the Xbox one, the consumer apathy is the problem.
A 50 savings is not going to make a undesirable product desirable. No-one is sitting on the fence for a few bucks difference.
Fox_Mulder
Rockefellers. Skull and Bones. Microsoft. Al Qaeda. A Cabal of Bankers. The melting point of steel. What do these things have in common? Wake up sheeple, the landfill wasn't even REAL!
still 150 too expensive
Sir_Crocodile
Member
This is pretty necessary to have any hope of catching up to the PS4.
I don't see it though. Has it even passed the Wii U yet?
I don't see it though. Has it even passed the Wii U yet?
smallios74
Member
Well it had an official drop in the UK from £429 to 400 a while back, so if correct would be a second price drop for the UK at least.
SwiftDeath
Member
mobile website
Duxxy3
Member
Fair enough.
That's crazy if true, it might even be more if you based it off worldwide sales rather than US sales who watch NFL.
Were you about to argue that the Kinect jettison wasn't a pricedrop? Because in the eyes of the people that matter, the consumers, it absolutely was. And a big one at that.
Didn't seem to do much either way.
Duxxy3
Member
You can still buy the $499 bundle, therefore it's not a price drop.
Wasn't their budgetting for Spain absolutely insane aswell? With their marketing costing almost as much as the total amount of consoles they sold.
overdrivex
Banned
Lol the nfl deal is not limited to Xbox, it also extends to surface tablets and having them available to football franchises
You are kidding yourself. The entry price is all that matters.
Solaire of Astora
Death by black JPN
Yeah, I personally don't see a 50 drop having much of an effect. Maybe it's just me, but the difference between overly expensive and good price for a piece of hardware is bigger than ~50.
Stillmatic
Member
The price to buy an Xbox One console officially dropped from $499 to $399. They unbundled Kinect, yeah, it's still a price drop to get the console from launch.
Pretty crazy if this drop is true!
Lol cmon we all know that was basically a price drop.
There is probably going to be some crazy xbone deals during Black Friday.
Given it's just the mobile site for one country I'm going to treat this as a data entry error until confirmed otherwise.
One thing though - can you place a purchase through the mobile app? If so they may have to honour it even if it is a data error. I've been lucky a few times buying stuff online where's there's been a price error and in all cases had the lower wrong price honoured.
One thing though - can you place a purchase through the mobile app? If so they may have to honour it even if it is a data error. I've been lucky a few times buying stuff online where's there's been a price error and in all cases had the lower wrong price honoured.
SwiftDeath
Member
20 million euro just for the Xbox One launch spent on marketing in Spain
They sold roughly 36,000 XB1's in Spain compared to 181000 PS4's by some point in January
So something like 555 euro spent on marketing per XB1 sold
like tohisba with HD-DVD
EmptySpace
Banned
oh sorry they dropped the kinect and effectively dropped the price because of other irrelevant reasons...after doing so much r&d and spending so much money on marketing, vendor contracts, software development, right down to putting dedicated hardware onto the console, etc.
yes, let's pretend the removal of kinect isn't a price drop.
Welfare
Member
I don't know, I think a price drop would be a $50 drop on the Kinect SKU, and then $100 difference from the Kinectless SKU. The Kinect Jettison just added a new SKU to the market, nothing more.
One of my workmates is, actually. He said he would buy a Kinectless version for around 350 euros. So that's at least oen sale
