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Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
05-14-14, 09:21 PM
#2251
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
Mine is a hundred dollar pause device. I only use it to pause/play movies. Haha
05-14-14, 09:44 PM
#2252
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
Xbox On - turns on my TV, receiver and xbox.
Xbox Turn Off - everything shuts down.
That's worth $100 alone for me.
Xbox Turn Off - everything shuts down.
That's worth $100 alone for me.
05-14-14, 09:48 PM
#2253
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
Majority will still buy it? That's hilarious. If MS even half believed that they wouldn't be removing it from the bundle.
Fool me once shame on you...
Mine is still on the top of the tv only because the tv is mounted to the wall and I ran the kinect cord through the wall. It's not even plugged into the 360. Haven't bothered to pull the tv off the wall to get at it and rid the place of the sucker. It just sits there watching, judging and silently laughing at my foolish purchase.
Could not possibly disagree more. I bet the Kinect attach rate going forward is less than 10%. Nobody that buys the $399 bundle is gonna shell out another $75 or $100 for that thing. I literally dis-Kinected the thing from my unit the second or third day and it has been sitting on a shelf ever since.
Fool me once shame on you...
Mine is still on the top of the tv only because the tv is mounted to the wall and I ran the kinect cord through the wall. It's not even plugged into the 360. Haven't bothered to pull the tv off the wall to get at it and rid the place of the sucker. It just sits there watching, judging and silently laughing at my foolish purchase.
05-14-14, 10:12 PM
#2254
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
Eventually my wife plans on using it for the exercise games. Eventually she says. Not that she needs exercise, she just wants to take advantage of the fact it's there.
05-14-14, 10:36 PM
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
Xbox Fitness is actually really good, and at least for the time being will only be free until the end of this year. I wonder though if they will extend it since they will need something out there to hope people who buy the new sku to buy a Kinect down the road.
05-14-14, 10:41 PM
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05-15-14, 12:05 AM
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05-15-14, 07:01 AM
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
Couldn't have put more plain and simple...essentially all the R&D they put into the XO leading up to the release has done a 180°...and it hasn't even been a full year yet.
05-15-14, 01:53 PM
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
If Ubi released their own console, they'd have dropped the price within 30 days. I bet they're laughing at MS for being so slow.
05-15-14, 02:37 PM
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
It's funny, because it's true.
To be fair, I'm still surprised that South Park: The Stick of Truth hasn't dropped below $39.99 yet on the consoles. Meh. I got it on the PC instead.
05-15-14, 02:45 PM
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
The PC Version hasn't really dropped either. Also, the PS4 version of Black Flag took forever to dip.
05-15-14, 03:08 PM
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
However, most of Ubisoft's next-gen titles have rarely gone on sale (yet). I'm still waiting to pick up the Xbox One edition of Just Dance 2014 for my wife, but it's never dropped below $40 whereas the PS3/360/Wii/Wii U editions of the game have already hit as low as $15-20.
[Off the record: I love the /r/gamedeals and r/consoledeals subreddits.]
05-15-14, 03:08 PM
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05-15-14, 03:54 PM
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
From this point in the generation on out, Microsoft needs to take a Costanza-like approach of 'whatever decision they decide to collectively make, they need to do the exact opposite'. That would save them the initial bad press of the stupid decisions and policies, as well as the humiliation of having to reverse course and getting the constant (and well deserved) string of XBox 180 jokes. That said, however humiliating the process is, at least they're getting there and listening to gamers (if not directly to gamers, at least gamer's dollars - or lack thereof).
05-15-14, 11:42 PM
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
Cross posting this for XBox One sales.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/16/572...e-during-april
That's a pretty big drop between months with 115K, which makes dropping the Kinect and lower price unsurprising.
Microsoft is pimping their software sales though.
http://news.xbox.com/2014/05/xbox-one-april-npd
http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/16/572...e-during-april
That's a pretty big drop between months with 115K, which makes dropping the Kinect and lower price unsurprising.
Microsoft is pimping their software sales though.
http://news.xbox.com/2014/05/xbox-one-april-npd
Highlights from April 2014 NPD Group results include:
Xbox One continues to see impressive software sales, maintaining an average of three games sold per console.
With Xbox One and Xbox 360 combined, the Xbox platform sold the most games across all console platforms with 2.6 million games sold. Xbox One sold 447,000 games in April and Xbox 360 sold 2.2 million, totaling 53 percent of the total software market share (Xbox 360 and Xbox One combined).
Xbox One and Xbox 360 together held eight of the top 10 spots on the generation eight and generation seven console game list in the U.S.: “Titanfall” (Xbox One), “Kinect Sports Rivals” (Xbox One), “Titanfall” (Xbox 360), “Call of Duty: Ghosts” (Xbox 360), “NBA 2K14” (Xbox 360), “Grand Theft Auto V” (Xbox 360), “Minecraft” (Xbox 360) and “Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare” (Xbox 360).
Xbox One sold 115,000 units in the U.S. in the month of April and has outpaced box 360 sales by 76 percent in the first six months on the market.
Xbox 360 continues to grow its install base with 71,000 units sold in April in the U.S., more than any other seventh generation console.
Xbox One continues to see impressive software sales, maintaining an average of three games sold per console.
With Xbox One and Xbox 360 combined, the Xbox platform sold the most games across all console platforms with 2.6 million games sold. Xbox One sold 447,000 games in April and Xbox 360 sold 2.2 million, totaling 53 percent of the total software market share (Xbox 360 and Xbox One combined).
Xbox One and Xbox 360 together held eight of the top 10 spots on the generation eight and generation seven console game list in the U.S.: “Titanfall” (Xbox One), “Kinect Sports Rivals” (Xbox One), “Titanfall” (Xbox 360), “Call of Duty: Ghosts” (Xbox 360), “NBA 2K14” (Xbox 360), “Grand Theft Auto V” (Xbox 360), “Minecraft” (Xbox 360) and “Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare” (Xbox 360).
Xbox One sold 115,000 units in the U.S. in the month of April and has outpaced box 360 sales by 76 percent in the first six months on the market.
Xbox 360 continues to grow its install base with 71,000 units sold in April in the U.S., more than any other seventh generation console.
05-16-14, 12:51 AM
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
I'm sure the lack of any compelling software on either platform is not really helping April sales either.
05-16-14, 05:53 AM
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05-16-14, 08:50 AM
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
Well...when you step out of one pile and think you're cleared you step in another....
Microsoft and Rare “Evaluating What They Want to Do Next” After Kinect De-Bundled from Xbox One
http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/05/...from-xbox-one/
Microsoft and Rare “Evaluating What They Want to Do Next” After Kinect De-Bundled from Xbox One
http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/05/...from-xbox-one/
05-16-14, 09:13 AM
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
Speaking of Rare, yeesh have they been (mostly) shit since MS bought them.
05-16-14, 11:27 AM
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re: Xbox One: S $249 Now / X $499 November 7 2017
I hope the external drive support also comes with the ability to play mp3s in the background while gaming like on the 360. I know support for larger drives is great and all, but personally useless for me. I doubt I'll ever use up more than 1/2 of my HDD. Music playing, however, would be fantastic.
