Madword on 15 May 2014
Why would anyone pre-order when its a worse deal than the deals they did a few weeks back. It's very problematic for MS, with the stores reducing the price of the bundle straight after Titanfall because of stock build up, people are now looking at this and thinking - yeah you removed kinect but I'm not getting a better deal.
I think people were hoping for Kinect removal and a price slightly lower than PS4 (or at least parity), but because of those other deals, its kind of ruined it a bit.
Also as others have said, no need to pre-order unless stock is going to be difficult to get from a shop... which is unlikely.
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