100 dollar off X1 not enough: Additional $75 dollar credit

I might get one next year.

The whole concept of putting up strong numbers is a receding hairline argument. The further out from launch they get, the less meaningul it is that they were able to dupe one million people on launch day into thinking this platform had a future. The reality sets in with each sub-100k NPD that they are, in all honesty, little better off with the XBone than the PS3 was at launch or the WiiU. The reality is that they are going to have to justify a floundering platform to an increasingly growing (and vocal) group of investors who are perfectly happy with pulling a Zune with the XBox brand and focusing on the money making aspects of MSes business.

People on this board and in the gaming industry in general turn a real blind eye to a basic truth. The XBone, in the state that it was originally revealed, was the XBox most in line with investors and big publishers vision of where console gaming should go for the maximum amount of profit. It was a services-oriented content delivery vehicle into the living rooms of developed nations genetically designed to leach your wallet. It was the culmination of everything the XBox was ever supposed to be (Hence, the name "One").

The market rejected that vision and the lashback was so intense that everything MS worked for with the previous two generations of giving Microsoft a good reputation amongst a younger demographic that would be more easily swayed to Apple products or even Linux had disappeared overnight. The lashback was so intense that MS has been in quadruple backflip mode trying to masquerade a PIECE OF HARDWARE designed from the ground up to be a media content delivery machine back into a harmless fuzzy wuzzy games console. It's a genie they are doing everything in the world to put back in its lamp including damn near $200 worth of price slashing before it is a year old.

Food for thought.

Xbox, as a business, basically has no fucking point. Microsoft pretty much dismantled it's PC gaming studios in the name of a hemorrhaging console business. The payoff was supposed to be the resurrection of WebTV and getting into the services pie. Instead, they've turned that brand into an albatross because they got too greedy too quickly and pulled off a monumentally stupid power grab against consumer rights.

For this reason alone, every person who bought an XBone at full price is a fucking sucker in my book that couldn't see the forest for the trees. It was bound to struggle and MS was bound to do everything they could to see the time investd in XBox was not a complete waste. Kinect didn't stand a chance of remaining bundled, for one thing. They will continue to make these massive back flips until they either find something that will work or they have to close shop and return to PC gaming.

@xhawk27: Stay mad lol

seems like every month M$ has a deal for the x1, it must be doing horrible in sales. Best to wait, it might be $199 next year.

Wait longer for the inevitable price drop. Which won't take as long as prior gens.

Just keep waiting, there will be another price drop...

Good stuff, that's what happens in a heated competition. Sony and Microsoft should have done this from the start actually, offering a nice rebate for existing longtime customers of XBL/PSN. This deal is especially good in Canada, where the PS4 is pretty expensive at 450$, I wonder if Sony will respond with something similar.

They're selling them as fast as they can make them. No, Sony isn't dropping the price on the PS4 until next year after they have blanketed the market with as many DriveClub and Destiny Bundles they can at full price.

MS is blowing their load prematurely. It reeks of desperation.

I wasn't talking about an official price drop, this is like a special promo for select existing customers, as I understand it. No reason Sony could not reply to it by doing something similar, they certainly cannot rest on their laurels at this point, despite selling better than the Xbox One so far, they are surely keeping a close eye on MS and their promos, they will not just sit idly by if they see some of Microsoft's promos increasing sales and market share.

But you are correct, if they are selling very well at the current price we should not expect them to do a price drop soon. In fact, netiher the PS4 or Xbox One has had an official price drop as of now, unbundling Kinect for 100$ less is not really a price drop the way I see it they just have 2 different packages now, but they are essentially the same price as launch day if you factor in the 100$ Kinect Value.

You keep telling yourself that. I'm sure those Kinect bundled XBones are just rolling off the assembly lines still *snicker* *giggle* *stifled laugh*

I might dip with this. I just started a new job, so my pay period is all screwed up... Though I might just say screw it.