Nah it was a highschool class might have been economics...no clue just remember it being one of the more interesting parts of a very boring class.

Makes sense setting up a price is a very basic concept.

Well it's slowly going to start being eclipsed greatly by the PS4 again but sales should be better than last year because the balls already started rolling

It's because a flat number like $3.00 or $400.00 appears to be in a different "tier", per se, in terms of cost. Because you, initially, only look at he first digit. The "3" in "$399" is lower than the "4" in "400", so, subconsciously, you think the item is "cheaper". I've read about this. Yes, it's a straight up mind game.

I think it'll stay at 350 but just without the free game. It only mentions the bundle.

the only thing that this confirms is that "that" particular bundle will not be offered for 350 after 1/3/15 it doesnt mean another sku will not be offered for 350

it was a bundle that offered games that typically releases during the holiday you cant expect it to keep being produced

no reason to keep losing money on it now that the holidays ended over on amazon the AC XB1 comes with a 50 dollar gift card and the ps4 400 dollar sku has been a spot or two behind it on the hourlys ever since christmas ended

it is because they will make the undecided to buy it before 4th jan. so, will increase the sales.
will rise again the price to do not disapoint who bought at 350$.

is just marketing

They will rise thé price back to 400$ then 3 months later they will definitely cut thé price

oh, you know they'll loophole their way out of having to raise the price back to $399. And when someone calls them out on this "trick" to get people to get XBones because they think they're "on sale", MS will just say "sorry, we apologize for the confusing language. We should have made such and such clear when we started the promotion", when it's pretty obvious what the wording means. 

@MarcB567 we are fixing that language, it was simply meant to imply the beta is for a limited time. Sorry for any confusion.

— Aaron Greenberg 🙅🏼‍♂️💚U (@aarongreenberg) December 22, 2014

Look online for an Xbone. Only official one (as in, without any store specific deals) is the Assassin's Creed bundle for $350. No vanilla XBones are available for sale, anywhere. The wording in the press release says "The holidays are almost over, but there’s still time to take advantage of the special, limited-time pricing of $50 off the Xbox One Assassin’s Creed Unity Bundle and Xbox One Assassin’s Creed Unity Bundle with Kinect.". That just means the AC bundle won't be $350, if anything. The vanilla Xbone will return to availability, it'll be $350, and when people say "what gives, I thought this was only for the holidays?", they'll say "we meant the bundle would be $350 for the holidays. Not the Xbox One by itself. Sorry if you misunderstood"

I remember taking a class similar to that back in college, more or less marketing but at the same time I took an e-Business class for two years and first years were brought up to spec with SWOTs. I found both classes to be rather interesting at the time and once you learn both it becomes easier to see the strats and tactics the big 3 use, compared to the average person who doesn't see much and takes what they see, for me when I see £399, I know it's basically £1 less and I know I'm not saving much money but if it's less than £399 (say £250) then I know I'm saving near £50 the original RRP which sounds moe like a deal.

I'm also looking at every price offer around my local food chain stores to see how good the offers really are when they stack up against single product prices and how much you actually save, you'd be surprised how many deals make it sound like you're saving money but you're actually not that well off.