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Forums - Sales Discussion - I Believe Xbox One Needs A Mininum $150 Pricecut To Be Competitive Again (I Eat That Crow)

Mr Puggsly on 23 April 2014

$399 with a game would make it competitive and I hope that happens closer to the holiday.

If MS wants to be a serious competitor, $299 console without Kinect and a game.



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J_Allard on 23 April 2014

They need to be priced the same. Not this more expensive but hey we give you a game type stuff.



TheGoldenBoy on 23 April 2014

All they need to do is match the same price and the easiest way to do that would be to remove the Kinect. Many casuals wouldn't know that the PS4 is more powerful than the X1, but they would be able to see that it is the same price and then at that point the decision becomes more about personal preference.



Normchacho on 23 April 2014

Personally, I don't think MS should just lob off cost to drive sales. I think they should try and do more to make the Xbox One worth the price they're asking. But maybe that's just me.



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ethomaz on 23 April 2014

Same price won't help guys.

They definitively needs to be cheaper.



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ethomaz on 23 April 2014
Normchacho said:
Personally, I don't think MS should just lob off cost to drive sales. I think they should try and do more to make the Xbox One worth the price they're asking. But maybe that's just me.

They tried with TF bundle but didn't help... TF bundles at $450 was better value than PS4.



Xenostar on 23 April 2014
ethomaz said:
Normchacho said:
Personally, I don't think MS should just lob off cost to drive sales. I think they should try and do more to make the Xbox One worth the price they're asking. But maybe that's just me.

They tried with TF bundle but didn't help... TF bundles at $450 was better value than PS4.


Value and cheaper are different things tho.

Value is very subjective, if it was the same price with a game i think it would be a lot closer in the US. 

I think for alot of people better multiplats is still more valuable than kinect, so $450 with a game is not necesarily better value.



GameAnalyser on 23 April 2014

A weaker hardware with a higher price is an impeding factor. So a price reduction would definitely work in Xbone's favor. The early that cut is the better it can perform in US and UK to reduce the gap.



lucidium on 23 April 2014

Its at 4m+ less than 6 months after launch, sounds pretty competitive to me.

P.s. in an Olympic race everyone that takes part is a competitor regardless of how likely they are to win, know why? Because nothing can be fully predicted, there's always a chance any one of those taking part can win.

Thus, the notion of having to be hot on the heels of first place to be considered competitive is drastically overblown



Dark_Feanor on 23 April 2014

What do you mean by "competitive"?

Looking the USA numbers where the price relation and sales are well know the sales delta is less than 20%.

If we count the March NPD with the TF bundle, which is arguable $60 price cut, the difference was 15%.

So, just matching the prices would be enouth to bump XOne sales by a large margin, $150 price drop would be insane, I don´t even think Microsoft would have enougth supply for the hollydays quarter.