Xbox One price cut to £399.99 in the UK from this Friday

@nl_skipper @PlatinumPaladin Yes, VAT (Value Added Tax) is a sales tax applied to most goods and services in the UK and EU.

@youre_a_sheep @PlatinumPaladinIts the VAT EU countries add to everything. In the UK its 20%. In essence people here in the EU like being shafted by their overlords, so we get shafted at every opportunity, and like sheep, continue to pay and act accordingly so we can get shafted as much as possible.

In summary, people like me in the EU are freaking morons and are seeing as being such, as so the circle of life continues as we pay through our hard working arses so we can send gift aid to countries who cant sort their own shyte out for the benefit of payinbg over the odds for goods that should be a third less in a 1st word economy, and they would be, but for the fact we are all fooking mugs.

I do genuinely love the fact that you show deep sincerity and worry towards our self inflicted disadvantage, and this is the only line in this post not riddled with self knowing cynicism.

*Waves EU flag*

@youre_a_sheep @PlatinumPaladin $500 is around £300. Add 20% VAT = £360 ( ~ $600). So yes, even after the price drop, and including sales tax, the UK is still paying more.

I don't know why it is so high in Brazil, though, because that price is insane.

@youre_a_sheep @PlatinumPaladin If it didn't cost anything to import them to Brazil, I'd fly there just to make some quick cash.

@McGregor if you plug in a pci-e 3 card to a pci-e 1 slot it will only run at pci-e1 speeds meaning this magic upgrade on an old machine is simply wishful thinking pci-e1 is slow compared and would seriously limit the ouputing capabilities of the card.

new gfx cards require alot more power than they did a 4 years ago. so most 4 year old pcs will not have a psu large enough to support a modern gfx and even if they do your motherboard would need to be pci-e 3 to get the potentail out of the card. and old bus speeds would bottleneck your pcs over all performance

to suggest that you can simply plug a new gfx in an old pc is quiet simply retarded theres more to it than that. a modern card would not run the same in an old pc as it would a modern pc. a pc gets to the point where you just need to replace motherboard cpu and ram to see a vaible improvement. then theres software to take in mind depending on what your using wich windows at 32 bit or 64 bit etc etc

which takes me back to if your claiming throwing a new gfx card in an old pc will give you these miricle 60fps/1080p results you dont know what your taking about

@kovaras1984 @deg22 My 8 year old PC had a 650w power supply. And even if it didn't, it's still cheaper to buy a new power supply and video card than an XB1.

PCI-E has been around for a while, so finding a compatible card isn't hard. Once again, it's cheaper to upgrade, Power supply, Video Card, Motherboard, Processor, Ram, than to buy an XB1...Built my gaming rig for $550, which comes in at $100+ under the XB1 in the UK. Now if their parts are more expensive, it may be the same...But with a PC you'll get 1080p/60fps for nearly the same cost.

@deg22 @kovaras1984 I have an 9 year old computer with a 500w PSU. That's not the computer I use for gaming though. (The newer one is 4 years old and has 800w PSU). Anyways... 600w PSUs have been around for a long time. The videocard is 2 years old... but the CPU and ram is still better than these new consoles. Even my 11inch laptop is more powerful than the consoles. But the PCs do cost a lot more.

@deg22 @kovaras1984 its not always the case. You can and you will find software that you want to play with, which doesnt run as smoothly as you hoped on your upgraded PC. This is because consoles can count on a level of software optimization that is missing in PC ports. Not to mention the catalogue of games available only on console that you cant play on PC and vice versa. Its not that banal and simple.

@kovaras1984 @deg22 aawww how cute, what a grown up answer!

It's great that your so happy with your new xbox that you rather spend your days spouting unfunded arguments and being generally unpleasant on websites than actually playing with the damn thing. Anyway I'm sure your next answer will be < insert random insult here > so consider this my last reply.

@deg22 @kovaras1984 you dont have a clue what your talking about

@kovaras1984 @deg22 well mine has. I bought 600w psu's 10 years ago, I really don't see your point. Everything you keep babbling on about can't hide the fact that a cheap as chips gfx card can outperform a brand new console. A console that has been made for the next 5 - 10 years according to microsoft. I don't want to be stuck with hardware, that was old two years ago already, for such a long period.

@deg22 @kovaras1984 yes because a new gfx card worth installing would work with a 4year old pc. the pci-e was defo upto scratch back then and all 4 year old pcs have 600 watt psu's to support the demands of a modern gfx lol.. oh wait no they dont.