Xbox One price drop to ?399 with free Titanfall

[charlesr]

heheh. good one.

[djtickle]

Suppose not, but would it put you off buying on day one next time around? guess not knowing how impatient 95% of gamers are.

Nope, I've been in this boat before with the Xbox and 3DS and expect ill be in it again come next handheld/console generation.

[MarioMark]

It's ?30. People will blow that on a round of drinks in a heartbeat and yet deliberate for ages about whether to buy at launch.

It's just the way of commerce - things go down in price as they get older. Buy a new model car: 6 months later new version is out at a cheaper price and all the niggles with the original model fixed. Buy a TV: 3 days later there's a new feature out that is now default for all TVs at the same price and you've missed out.

People wind me up when they bitch and moan at me for buying a console at launch. In most cases is it really worth missing out on a years worth of gaming on a shiny new console to save a 100 quid on a price drop. It's not even ?10 a month.

Look at the 360 for example, they were ?210/?280 at launch. 8 years later they're still ?150/?200 albeit a few design improvements I'll admit... but still.

[Team Andromeda]

People wind me up when they bitch and moan at me for buying a console at launch. In most cases is it really worth missing out on a years worth of gaming on a shiny new console to save a 100 quid on a price drop. It's not even ?10 a month.

Spot on and its nothing new at all . Mega Drive and Snes had price cuts early in , The N64 and XBox also had a huge price cut early in, in both the USA and UK . Fine if people want to wait then fair enough, but I know full with bulk buying mass production and cheaper components that consoles will see a price cut in their base price early in due to cheaper parts and in a neffort to drive sales more .

[EvilBoris]

They have to draw a line somewhere, they have to drop the price at some point and every time they do there will be somebody that bought it the day before.
But at the same time they cannot compensate those who agreed to pay more for it on every occasion.

There is part of me that wonders that this was a very deliberate series of choices from even prior to launch.

They knew supply would be constrained, they knew there would he people who would buy at any price and they knew that the UK public are incredibly price sensitive, so something going on 'sale' is instantly more attractive.

Games are increasingly being priced over the odd because people like to think they've got a deal when they reduce them.

[Team Andromeda]

There is part of me that wonders that this was a very deliberate series of choices from even prior to launch.

TBH I think its more do with the PS4 seeing great sales in the USA and UK and MS knows it needs to act .