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akuseru on 10 April 2014
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Adameh said:
akuseru said:

In all fairness, I will say this is a good deal...

However, didn't everyone say the same with the first TF bundle price cut as well? Then they included Forza in the bundle a couple of weeks later, and now there is this new "price cut" as well... How can this be considered a good deal, when there potentially could be an even better deal only a month or two down the road?

For me, this is just a big, red flag....

I don't think the retailers or Microsoft will or can lower the price even lower than £349.99 without taking losses.

 

However £349.99 is something like $575 so maybe they can.


That might be true, but I cannot say for sure as I don't know how much MS was profitting per XB One sold at the original price level.

There are some risks I see for potential customers from this:

- The price might go further down very shortly, so they might as well just wait a bit longer. This will lead to lower sales during this critical period, as people who would've otherwise bought the XB One at 400 now hold out for further price cuts.

- If the low sales sustain, and if the XB business is not lucrative enough for the suits in MS, the whole XB division could get axed and then buyers will be left with a "Dreamcast", only without the epic library that the Dreamcast had.

 

Of course I am biased, as I would never buy an XB One, nor any other product from MS, except for Windows because I don't have a choice. But from a customer's point of view, the early pricecuts and other signs coming from MS and XB division is very worrying. Hence, the big, red flag! Apart from the lower price, thus saving some money on your purchase (sorry to say this, but this is "POCKET CHANGE" in the long run), I don't see anything else benefitting the customer from this.