Microsoft Drops Xbox One with Kinect Price to $449 for 2 Weeks - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 February 2015 / 5,505 Views
Microsoft earlier this dropped announced they dropped the price of the Kinect-less Xbox One SKU to $349 as a special promotion. Microsoft has now announced the price of the Kinect Xbox One SKU has been dropped by $50 to $449.
The Kinect Xbox One SKU sales runs from February 8 to February 21. The sale will be available at most major retailers including Walmart, GameStop, Best Buy, Amazon, Toys R Us, Target, and Microsoft Stores.
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Usually when MS make this price cut, XBO sell really bad... I still remember the -100$ dropped annunced on May, and the terribile April NPD. For not cont October... imo, Prepare for a Doom NPD for XBO in January. Outsold by PS4 by a Huge margin.
Not sure if it's by a huge margin but it should do better than last year.
Look Microsoft, just take a page from Atari's playbook and burry those Kinects under a parking lot.
I'm curious as to why Microsoft waited until now to cut the price of the Kinect bundle. Why didn't they just do that when they price cut from the Assassin's Creed SKU?
Attempting to win February NPD so they don't start out losing the first two months of the year.
To me this says X1 lost the January NPD and to combat the whole "MS cant win when its not a holiday" they're lowering the price the last two weeks of February to try and boost the February NPD lol. Can't wait to see it not work
Microsoft is desperate...
I do not really see this doing much...
desperate times call for desperate measures
XBOX One with what???
This probably means two things. One, January sales weren't too impressive. And two, the reports of mass overstocking is true and MS is just trying to help stores get rid of unsold stock. Probably why its only for two weeks. Of course, I don't think this will help sales that much. For that, they would need to drop the price to $399.
desperate times call for desperate measures
Why wouldn't you just get the Assassins Creed Unity Bundle with Kinect for $35 more? O.o
I'm not sure they want to do this, given the last "temporary" price cut fallout; many users on here seem pretty perturbed by the oscillating console cost.
Why would anyone care about this now??? They've already pushed the $350 version to death pretty much saying Kinect is now irrelevant. The reason to want Kinect is what now exactly even at a discount?
Is should be $450 at the most lol. In fact I would just drop it to $400 and try to get rid of them. 95% of people only want the $350 SKU anyways.
Hopefully that should work out for them.
testing the grounds ?
sorry MS i dont bite for that (fake deal) i wait went price rach 299$ and new splim xbox 1 come out. (but thx for trying)
Comments section with all the negative comments have all got more thumbs up than any of the "congrats" or "good" type comments, it's obvious this section isn't moderated and gives fans biased from other platforms free reign to become dicks.
This price should be permanent, as well as 349 w/o kinect. It'd allow xbox to beat PS (in the US).
Er, no. 400 PS4 vs 350 XB1 = PS4 wins.
