It's 3 months from launch , don't act like this is normal.
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Xbox One price cut to £399 in the UK, includes free copy of Titanfall
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It's 3 months from launch , don't act like this is normal.
miDnIghtEr20C
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Of course I do. If I didn't have either next gen console I'd but TitanFall and an X1 and MLB the show for a PS4.
TitanFall is going to go down as one of the best FPS games ever on console. You're damn right it's awesome enough to buy an X1 for. And even better for people who don't have the console yet? Now they get it as a pack in. That's awesome. Might buy a second X1 now for the other living room. Both rooms with full Kinect integration controlling all my shit in both rooms. I like the sounds of that actually.
How is it not? I've read from the UK posters here that the 360 was cut only 2 months in. Seems pretty normal to me. Two gens in a row. How soon was it here in the USA that Sony cut the PS3 price?
Seems pretty normal for these consoles the last couple gens to hit a high price to see what people will spend, and then change it accordingly.
I remember writing to Nintendo after the first N64 pricedrop here. It was a few months after launch IIRC.
After a few weeks I got a letter back - they were sorry about how I felt, valued me as a customer etc., but they had exhausted a small supply of peripherals they'd been handing out to pre-pricedrop customers.
Yet you got TWO?
/still bitter
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I find your estimates to be overly optimistic.
If it's so awesome and worth a console purchase then why bundle it for free?
This has less to do with Titanfall and more to do with the XB1's price. If you think that Titanfall justifies a $560 price for the average consumer then there's no reason to offer it for $500.
I'm not denying this is good news for consumers but this is not something that a company does if they are confident in their product and its price.
Maleficence
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Pretty sure it wasn't an official price cut like this, UK retailers just have a tendency to price cut quickly.
gigantor21
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As several posts have already mentioned, it's not without precedent--particularly with consoles that were selling below expectations. Not to mention how people have been hammering MS on the price-performance ratio since the launch price was announced back at E3.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
God bless them, our only protection against obvious price gouging.
Miles Quaritch
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The OG Xbox was cut two months after launch, the 360 price wasn't cut until at least 15 months or more later.
StealthGoblin
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Miles Quaritch
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Sure, but they also set a precedent by offering 'thank you packages' to early adopters so as not to make them feel like they had just been ripped off and taken for chumps.
This is a price cut 3 months from launch on a console that is breaking Microsofts own sales records.
Not true, infact you could barely find a 360 on the shelves in the first few months. It was a long time before the 360 saw a price cut , and the Xbox 1 is trending higher than it in sales.
gigantor21
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I wish it was like that in the States...but then the official prices would likely just get jacked up to compensate. :/
Kazuma Kiryu
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Now it's going to break even more records.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
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People doubted me when I said they would have to bundle it because of the way it was selling. They said it was laughable that Microsoft would bundle a game that would require a Live subscription just to play. I figured they would be buying Live already or would get a free sub bundled in.
Once again, I've been right about this gen so far. My gut (or the indigestion inside of it) is freakin' Nostradamus this gen.
<pats self on back>
Once again, I've been right about this gen so far. My gut (or the indigestion inside of it) is freakin' Nostradamus this gen.
<pats self on back>
Crimson_Gold
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The good doctor wrote the Xbone a prescription. But will it cure the patient? We shall see soon enough.
Wow moneyhat much? It's now the #1 on Amazon UK. Penello must have spied this.
Quicker than the PS3 going from £425 to £349/£299 in the UK (6 months IIRC). Though at this point in the PS3s life cycle in the UK you could have one for £400 with 3 games, a blu ray and an HDMI cable
History just keeps on repeating itself
miDnIghtEr20C
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Ahhhhh.. my mistake then. I was reading that wrong. Thought they were talking about the 360... well.. still stands! It's happened before!
But will it happen again?!?!?!?!!?They probably want more and more and more sales like all the consoles want. So bundle your top game to get people to buy the console. Software sales are pretty strong for the X1 as is right now aren't they? Thought so. I see no problem in putting a great game bundled. Mario is bundled, Nathan Drake is bundled, Master X has been bundled.
It's a bundle baby... and ba da ba ba ba.... I'm loving it. Like I've said.. hell.. this could make me buy an extra X1 now. A.. to have one in the other living room.. and B, TitanFall!
PolarGamer
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You can buy it from Elkjop.no for measly NOK4.790 ($794 or £477) - without any game included.
Edit: Forgot to add that i's an import version. Says 100+ in stock.
They are using the popularity and hype of Titanfall to move consoles. They would have sold some at $560; they will sell more at $500. They decided they wanted to sell more. Pretty simple on the surface. In reality they probably had some marketing statisticians running numbers to determine units that would sell at each price, total profit with each strategy, plus Gold subs, etc, and they decided on the $500 option.
abracadaver
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They may get it cheaper and titanfall for free but they wont get the day one achievement
DJSebolski
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I'll just wait for 2014 Holiday Bundle.
SwiftDeath
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Cool to see MS being more competitive. This is entirely expected though. Their pricing in the UK was far too much. Must kind of suck if you bought an XB1 at launch in the UK for the purpose of playing Titanfall
This would've saved you what 85GBP maybe?
This would've saved you what 85GBP maybe?
gigantor21
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And what exactly could they offer to early adopters that would help mitigate their anger? They're already eating the cost of the copies in each bundle at this price, and giving away free copies to existing owners would be even more expensive without much long-term benefit.
That has also been getting outsold 2:1 in the 360's biggest markets since the holidays, and has been criticized for it's higher price for the past 9 months.
Positioning it for long term success is more important.
FullMetaltech
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Kinda shocking to see price drop that fast for a new product. Smart of them though to "test" the drop in one area and see how that can work for the other regions. Im thinking if the Titanfall bundle doenst do as well well see a pricecut for NA at E3 for $450.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
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It might help for a month or two. It isn't exclusive enough to get people to move on though. It will be a game that other developers copy ideas from though.
Amazon.com now has the bundle:
http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-One-Console-Titanfall-Bundle/dp/B00IIHU44E/ref=sr_tr_1?t=slicinc-20&tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=SCazgp15EeO6gz6StX-0HgIcv_C92z3_0_0_0&s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1393255420&sr=1-1&keywords=xbox+one
Both the 360 and PS3 didn't really drop much in price, they just increased the HDD size instead.
Miles Quaritch
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3 months of free gold? £20/£30 free XBL credit? A free game download from their first party offerings?
Those won't break the bank and would do a lot more good than harm in the long run.
highly amusing
Miles Quaritch
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Booty Patrol
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This is going to be interesting.
Well £400 is $555 (excluding tax) so it seems like you got a good deal compared to the US's 599 US Dollars
And I think that will continue this generation, you can't just keep dropping the price over and over for 10 years.
They obviously need to find the sweet spot for both machines.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft and EA's special relationship?
Prototype Viktor
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Wait are they still only in 13 countries? Don't they know Sony basically wrapped up their worldwide launch already
Nah, way back in 2007 $1 was worth almost £2GBP, we still got shafted
But I think that was probably still less than you'd pay for a solus console plus bundled items in the USA
brokenbeans
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Nope still not good enough get Kinect out that box and I'll consider.
You were just talking sense
Bundle = perceived value at lower cost to MS so is a better option than a pure price cut.
Game needing live (and 30 days free) is a nice way to get those live subscriptions up for potential increased revenue
FuriousDark
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It comes bundled with Kinect! They really love just cramming that in as a feature.
Dreams-Visions
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"When Microsoft cut the price of the original Xbox in 2002 (for the same reason sluggish sales) it offered two free games to early adopters and an extra controller. So far, there has been no such thank you package."
Yep, I need a thank you package. I'm not happy about this. It really is a fuck you to everyone who already bought a One.
It wasn't back then. £400 would have been around $800 in 2007.
Yoda
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I don't see the logic in cutting in one region alone. This sends the message that other price cuts will be reactionary to poor sales (which X1 will have for Feb). I foresee an issue of U.S. and other EURO nation customers holding out for a price-cut to their region. This will surely boost UK sales though.
Ms have been tossing down our throat that xboxone is selling in record numbers and way above 360 was here in the uk, the signs weren't there at all, sony just happened to be doing even better, this isn't an xbox 1 situation where it wasn't selling at all.
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