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HesAPooka on 23 April 2014

I guess they think the console didn't sell well enough for them to make it a permanent price drop. At least for now.



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Mr Puggsly on 23 April 2014
HesAPooka said:
I guess they think the console didn't sell well enough for them to make it a permanent price drop. At least for now.


That's some great logic. "This price cut isn't boosting sales, time to increase the price!"

Maybe it was just temporary... maybe?



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Shaunaka on 23 April 2014
shikamaru317 said:

I think Microsoft is going to wait a see how sales look at $500 for the next few weeks, compare it to the sales while it was at $450, and extrapolate what sales would be like at $400 from that data. Then they're going to decide if the sales benefit of a lower price offsets the money they'd be losing per console sold. If they do decide that a price drop is worth it to them they'll then announce it at E3 so that they get free publicity and possibly even ther perception that they "won E3" assuming the rest of their conference is good as well.


That's not going to make buyers happy.



starcraft on 23 April 2014

Not possible, the console has had at least three price cuts

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=181758&page=3

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=181552&page=1#43

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jlmurph2 on 23 April 2014
Shadow1980 said:
ICStats said:

What will this do to sales?


With Titanfall hype dying out (as one would expect; individual games only provide short-term boosts), I suspect that April NPD will see it get dangerously close to 200k. I have a feeling that this quarter won't be as good as the last quarter for the XBO.


Isn't Q2 normally lower than Q1?



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vivster on 23 April 2014

I didn't know it was temporary. I know of limited offers and stuff but a whole month doesn't really scream "temporary". This pricecut was hailed as the savior and haven't seen anyone once mentioning that it will just last a month and go back up again.



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Lonely_Dolphin on 23 April 2014
ICStats said:
jlmurph2 said:
It was a limited offer. Everyone knew that.

I knew that, but I did not expect it to be temporary.  I expected it would turn into an official cut.

Just my opp. but I think now many people who saw the system could be had for $449 will wait for the price to drop again.


Microsoft had nothing to do with the price cut. One retailer did it and then others followed. Can't expect Microsoft to change their plans just because some stores were getting frisky!

Also, everyone should know price cuts are inevitable, so it wont have an impact on anything. Anyone who still decided to wait despite the $450 deal was gonna keep waiting regardless.



jlmurph2 on 23 April 2014
vivster said:
I didn't know it was temporary. I know of limited offers and stuff but a whole month doesn't really scream "temporary". This pricecut was hailed as the savior and haven't seen anyone once mentioning that it will just last a month and go back up again.


So you thought that it wasn't temporary even though you had to use a discount code for some retailers?



vivster on 23 April 2014
jlmurph2 said:
vivster said:
I didn't know it was temporary. I know of limited offers and stuff but a whole month doesn't really scream "temporary". This pricecut was hailed as the savior and haven't seen anyone once mentioning that it will just last a month and go back up again.


So you thought that it wasn't temporary even though you had to use a discount code for some retailers?

The $450 version was freely available on Amazon without any need for codes.



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jlmurph2 on 23 April 2014
vivster said:
jlmurph2 said:
vivster said:
I didn't know it was temporary. I know of limited offers and stuff but a whole month doesn't really scream "temporary". This pricecut was hailed as the savior and haven't seen anyone once mentioning that it will just last a month and go back up again.


So you thought that it wasn't temporary even though you had to use a discount code for some retailers?

The $450 version was freely available on Amazon without any need for codes.


Amazon started with the whole code thing. By putting "1" or something in the box and then it dropped to $450.