Microsoft Exec: Xbox One Sales Were Incredible During Black Friday, Possibly Takes A Shot At PS4

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DD_Bwest said:

endimion said:

DD_Bwest said:

you are probably the first one I see formulating it almost properly in your initial statement... But still a but biased you can't say it was 560 then cause you had to buy a game and then turn around and say it's 280 now cause you get a 50 dollars gift card... Bottom line if you wanted to play XBO you had to pay 560 and now you'll have to shell out 330... (unless you start venturing into hypothetical that you could sell he gift card or the game etc, but you could also say the other guy could sell the Kinect too now etc)... So either you say it was 560 then and 330 now or 500 then and 280 now but in any case it sure is a great price cut...

..... having to buy a game last year, and getting a card with a 50 dollar value to a store that pretty much sells everything is a bit different. you dont need to sell it to get a full 50 dollar value.    i can however see why YOU have a problem with it though so im going to enjoy continueing to call it 280 like it really is.

the console is halff price from last year

Not really. You said price of entry. The price of entry was $500, for one week it was $330. It is going back to $350, then maybe even back to $400.

So those drops are about 34%, 30% and 20% respectively.

If you wanted to argue about the effective price of entry, we could be here all day.