It's a 30GBP price cut, unless MS has cut it another 20GBP since last I heard.
Minecraft? A game that nearly everyone who wants it owns on at least 2 platforms already is going to put Xb one over the top for the rest of the generation? I think not.
Price cut certainly had a beneficial effect, but it's too small of a price cut to have a lasting effect. A price cut with a longer term boosting effect would have been 50-70GBP.
It will be fun to watch over the next few months to see if what MS has done so far to improve Xb one's performance has the desired effect, and whether MS makes any further moves to push sales. I suspect they won;t bother with anything much leading in to the slow sales months, and any further major move they make will be August/Sept.
Both PS4 and Xb one are horrendously expensive in the UK (cost more there than they do here in NZ), no one has explained why the high price. I think Sony will let Xb one come back to PS4 RRP before they consider cutting price. I reckon PS4 will get its first price cut in Feb 2015 and it will be $50, then 18 months later it will get a further $50 cut so it can sell gangbusters in holiday 2016 at $299. Hardware should be well and truly profitable at $299 by that time.
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