I just got the choose your game console with 500 gigs at bestbuy a few days ago for 350...Another pretty good deal (just before the Slim and Scorpio are announced!)
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Xbox One price cut to $299/299/£279
- Thread starter Galava
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you chose poorly
The Wii U only needs to sell 800k in the next year. I guess they were taking something like this into consideration.
Well, probably means the same reduction can be applied to current model, bringing it close to $250. Can someone who works there confirm?
Spiritwalker
Member
not your best buy
demigod
Member
What a sucker!
Opus Angelorum
Member
If it was £99 some people wouldn't buy it.
chromatic9
Member
With the deals available in the UK, we do pretty well already. I'm not going to list the 30000 deals we've had in the last 24 months but lets just take the straight console as of now.
$300 is £206, add in 20% VAT and its £250
For the past 5/6 months we've been able to get an Xbox One for £210, we're pretty much getting an Xbox without VAT and if you go amazon it's still cheaper than it should be.
Don't forget we've had Xbox One selling at £250 inc free game since 2014 with the AC Unity and Sunset bundles and so on. You can trade that brand new game in and you've effectively got a Xbox One £210-20 for the past two years, when Xbox was $350 and $400 in the US.
wild wild rice
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Dafuq? Thought it was currently $250. No way José, gonna hold out.
aesupreme1
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I've been really close to picking up an Xbox One for the past six months, but I decided to wait until after E3 to see what Microsoft was going to reveal (especially with the Slim rumor). This is enticing though, some really good bundles for $300 now.
backflip10019
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It's 2016 and we're still doing console wars. Fantastic!
Honestly not a big deal. For like the last year and a half damn near every retailer sold the Xbox One for $300 including pack-in games. Microsoft has been trying their damnest to get these things off the shelves since the initially console reveal debacle. That first year for Microsoft was rough as hell and they've been trying to make up for it ever since.
GameAddict411
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It would be tempting to buy an XO, but the news about the new Xbox just made it really hard. I still remember the $500 launch price tag. Ouch.
Hidden One
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Console wars went away? Who knew.
WordAssassin
Member
This deal is absolutely insane I'm so mad I don't have the extra cash to buy this right now
get2sammyb
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They should do a deal with McDonalds. Put an Xbox One in every Happy Meal, that should shift some units in Europe.
LQX
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Ugh, dude you are on GAF. Surely you knew something was afoot and they have so many deals going at other sites like Amazon. In the FS thread here, many are selling them for like $200.
Regardless, BestBuy is good about returns, even if open. Take it back or get it price adjusted.
Why would they sell a slim version for more money? If anything it will be the same price. You probably right about it having to do with them releasing a slim version. They probably lowered the manufacturing cost with it and could afford to lower the price permanently.
Diprosalic
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they sell this for less than $150 sometimes around here (switzerland) and it's not selling super well, i expect it to drop even further now.
$99 XB1 incoming.
Cow Goes Moo
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i wonder how low it will go during holidays, $250 is certainly possible
Dumb ass sports team mentality has infected everything
ClosingADoor
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Guess this is the official price? All retailers here are under € 300 already for a while.
I bought mine for 250 last year. Two weeks later it was 200 lol.
Oh the old, "temporary price drop to permanent price drop" play. It's going to be interesting to say that their strategy is at E3. Xbox One sales are behind PS4 at a $50 price advantage in their strongest territory. Now that Scorpio has "leaked" and is over a year out, people are going to be super-weary to go Xbox One, knowing it's on the deprecation path.
Diprosalic
Banned
media markt had it for $180/160 last week.
Maaaaaaaan. Quantum Break was cool but other than that... worst console purchase. By far.
Theonik
Member
Both systems have been going for 299 or thereabouts for months. I expect Sony to set an official price to 299 within the month.
……forgetit
Member
Xbone and wii u are the same price? Go figure
This is a great deal, but there are quite a few deals on xb1 around. It is generally a bit cheaper than PS4 in retailers.
Also wtf at MS just announce a price drop to £279 and they're already devaluing it with big bundles..
Xbox Nos.
So that was the secret sauce all along.
BibiMaghoo
Member
Yeah
Pretty sure your console has a defect. You should return it.
Mass Effect
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Why would they raise the price? They'd just be in the same exact situation they've been in for the last few months: failing to move consoles like they want.
Altered Juice
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lol
rokkerkory
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Really? Damn.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Hmm, I think I'll still wait for another price drop or the more powerful one. Still doesn't feel like either console has a whole lot of exclusives I want.
How do they clear the old stock if the Slim is the same price is probably what they were getting at.
I'll hazard a guess the old Xbox One have had and will get a much bigger price cut behind the scenes until stock runs out. Retailers aren't eating 100 quid on those if they've been much cheaper than these official price cuts for ages.
£279 was the Xbox 360 launch price!
GutsOfThor
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I'm so tempted! I really want to play Forza Horizon 2 but can't get myself to bite knowing that E3 is around the corner.