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aLkaLiNE on 04 February 2015
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Gamepur.com said:

"Microsoft Xbox Division Boss in a recent Major Nelson Hryb's Podcast talked on lot of interesting things about Xbox One: "Fall 2014 line [sic], what's coming in Holiday Season 2015 and the recent price cut of Xbox One for a limited time period". (1)

Phil Spencer stated that the line-up for Xbox One for Fall 2015 looks "Crazy" and this the upcoming which is just few days away is pretty good time for Xbox One to compete against Sony's PlayStation 4.

"Looking at production schedules and how things are lining up next fall is just crazy. I mean, this fall from first party and third party standpoint is great.  Next fall, I honestly… It's not hype at all… I Honestly don't know that we can ship all the stuff that we're trying to ship next fall. It just might be too crowded and we might purposely try to move something out to spread it." (2)

Coming to the Xbox One price cut which will be available for limited time (till Holiday Season 2014), Spencer stated that it's a Big Move from Microsoft and its pretty good time for them to go out and compete.

"I think the pricing that's going to run through the holidays is a big move from us. I think it's a good time for us to go in and compete. One thing I'm learning in the job is you plan this stuff months in advance. You gotta make sure you have the units there so people go into the store and actually can find the consoles at the right prices. Do all the inventory planning, do all the pricing, but I feel good about the bundles. (3)

You've got Assassin's Creed Unity, you've got the Sunset Overdrive bundle, you've got the great Call of Duty with one terabyte hard drive… I think the diversity of what we're bundling and the different consoles that are there… Getting to reduce the price by fifty dollars across all the different consoles, I think it's a great opportunity, and it's a good time. It's a good time to be a gamer. I think the opportunity there to get something of value for you is gonna be all over the place. This holidays' black Friday will be crazy. People run their own deal on top of that, and we want to support that."

Microsoft surely had a pretty great start for Holiday Season 2014, Insomniac's Sunset Overdrive was very well received by critics and fans, and the upcoming line-up is also pretty interesting (especially Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Halo 5: Multiplayer beta and other third party titles)."

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Here's an article with the quotes, since nobody else was providing a source.  So the bolded are comments I'd like to go over, but he did in fact state that they had too many games releasing for fall of 2015, not necessarily the rest of the year. However, there's some massive spinning in my opinion going on.  Corellating this to my earlier post about him being a salesman and being good at decieving the average consumer such as yourself.

(1) 'Recent price cut for a limited period of time.'  So... the first thing that shows good ol Spence is still up to shady MS tactics - Let the customer percieve what others would call a price cut as a Limited Offer.  Doesn't that phrasing sound kind of familiar...? Similar to what they're doing right now which is a 'limited offer'? IE The Vanilla SKU discounted $50. But it's not a price cut guys, we're doing this as a one time special offer for the gamers, by the gamers.

(2) This parts interesting. He makes it appear as if the software lineup for 2015s holiday season is so jampacked that they'll be forced to delay some first party titles in favor of flooding the market... But uhm, wait Microsoft.  What about the other 3/4ths of the year? You could always move some of those extra games that way right? Ordinarily that would make sense.  Keep sales steadily flowing, maintain consumer satisfaction, maybe even spawn some killer new IPs along the way.  But that can't happen if none of these exclusives weren't completley developed before the year ends anyway.  I think that this is just his way of spinning 'Our software lineupe is relatively weak this year and we don't have many exclusives available' >>>into>>> 'We have TOO many exclusives available so we'll just delay half them to next year to make us look better'.

(3) My only comment on this is that he specifically points to flooding the retail channels before it actually happens.  Anyone remember the recent Microsoft financial reports? Either the tracking here at VGChartz was way off or MS literally STUFFED the channels with overstocked inventory.  Now, how many of you have seen anecdotal evidence of pallet loads of X1s at your local WalMart, Target, Best Buy, etc? Again, go back and read that third bolded comment that Spencer made before the holiday season was in full gear.