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Demesne on 01 December 2014
leo-j said:
Hard to beat a billion dollar corporation.. They can drop the Xbox one to 199 whenever they want too


Clearly not hard since SOny has done it every month every week this year, not every one is blind to the fact a whole wide big world exists.

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i love xbox 360 on 01 December 2014
Demesne said:
leo-j said:
Hard to beat a billion dollar corporation.. They can drop the Xbox one to 199 whenever they want too


Clearly not hard since SOny has done it every month every week this year, not every one is blind to the fact a whole wide big world exists.


Xbox is winning in the 1st and 3rd biggest gaming markets now, so the tide is turning.



 

 

Demesne on 01 December 2014
i love xbox 360 said:
Demesne said:
i love xbox 360 said:
Was at game at 12 on black friday and saw 10-20 ps4 being bought, where as the Xbox one sold out in minutes and i had to collect next day (i know not representative of the UK), i think we shall see the xbox overtake the PS4 in the coming months.


I think not given the drought on X1 and PS4s early 2015 exclusives.  You all need to open your eyes and accept it took many factors for X1 to match PS4 sales.   


Yeah it had to drop the silly kinect so it could match it on price.


Actually it had to drop 170 dollars from its release price 12 months ago and add two free games to match it sales.   



celador on 01 December 2014
leo-j said:

Actually they can.. And Sony can do absolutely nothing to combat it.. And who cares.. The article says just edges out the competition.. So they almost sold the same despite the one having way better deals in bundles 


Despite better deals, and from what we are told, far more and far higher quality exclusives.  Everything was in X1's favour and they scraped a win in a country the brand has been dominant in for a better part of a decade



leo-j on 01 December 2014
Seece said:
leo-j said:
poklane said:

That's why. The Xbox division is one of the less-profitiable divisions within Microsoft and there has already been talks of investors wanting to get rid of Xbox. Microsoft can't afford to make the Xbox One a financial disaster.

Actually they can.. And Sony can do absolutely nothing to combat it.. And who cares.. The article says just edges out the competition.. So they almost sold the same despite the one having way better deals in bundles 

Which offsets the huge momentum PS4 has had this past year.


Well.. The Xbox brand is to the UK what it is to the u.s.... The gaming brand of that country.. So the fact they made a small comeback due to bundiling and dropping the price dramatically within a year.. Isn't that surprising.. Why would I a 360 fan pay more for a ps4..? When I can get more games and a cheaper price for the new Xbox.. If sony had done the same in 2007 , it would have prob resulted in the same situation.. But they didn't.. And couldn't.. Which is why I said Sony can't do a single thing.. And Microsoft can go to 199 if they need to



 

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i love xbox 360 on 01 December 2014
poklane said:
i love xbox 360 said:
poklane said:
 

That's why. The Xbox division is one of the less-profitiable divisions within Microsoft and there has already been talks of investors wanting to get rid of Xbox. Microsoft can't afford to make the Xbox One a financial disaster, especially if it still gets outsold WW on a regular basis.

The thing is if they make a lose of £50 on every xbox sold this can easy be made up through store sales or xbox live gold, sometimes in business you have to reduce profits in the short term for long term rewards.

If it was this simple then consoles (especially Xbox consoles) would launch at way lower price, wouldn't they?

Why? they still would like to make a profit from day one, and now that they realize they can without hurting future sales they have reduced the price. Its common sense.



 

 

poklane on 01 December 2014
i love xbox 360 said:
Demesne said:
leo-j said:
Hard to beat a billion dollar corporation.. They can drop the Xbox one to 199 whenever they want too

Clearly not hard since SOny has done it every month every week this year, not every one is blind to the fact a whole wide big world exists.

Xbox is winning in the 1st and 3rd biggest gaming markets now, so the tide is turning.

Really? You're making a conclusion like that based on holidays sales and promotions?



man-bear-pig on 01 December 2014

Don't understsnd why people are saying the Xbone had better deals than the PS4...everywhere I seen they were pretty much the same price and the PS4 deals actually were better in some places



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i love xbox 360 on 01 December 2014

Its had a £20 price drop, can people stop going on like its had a £100 one? and the drop was because of the kinect not being bundled !



 

 

psrock on 01 December 2014

Congratulations to Xbox on edging out the PS4 in the UK last week.



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