How can MS justify the $100 premium now that....

Why all the talk about Joe Gamer? What about existing 360 owners who may want to move on to xbox1? PS4 looks real good from a hardware point of view, but where is the games? a console first unveiled in march irrc and a single exclusive title at launch, why? Vita was all set to destroy 3ds with its superior specs but we know how that's panned out.

This console war will be close, price will be an issue for Microsoft, I reckon it will drop to £389 in the UK by summer 2014. Lets not forget that only approx £35 difference in the console if you want to buy Fifa, PS4 is £349.99 and £47 for Fifa 14 versus £429 on xbox1 for same package. PS4 looks great but Killzone wont move consoles, it didn't move PS3 and BF4 and COD releasing at same time will hamper it.

Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut. Too much stupid in this post.

I've already stated that the hardcore Xbox 360 fans will most likely pay the $500 for the XB1, but Joe Gamer won't.

Lemmings aren't poor.

Tell me what game the PC cant play on 1080P?

The consoles are looking less and less appealing as time goes on.

Hardware costs kinda mandate what they need to charge in order to break even/make a profit. They could easily charge $400 for it, but how much money are they going to lose doing so?

I can almost guarantee that the Xbone will sell very well this holiday season. MS knows that advertising is the cornerstone of success in the modern mainstream gaming market, and they will be spending likely billions on advertising it. It will do well, probably better than the PS4.

@ccagracing:

Most 360 gamers I know, "self included" will not be buying an Xbox One. Its just funny to me how so many Lems use 2006 Cow logic to defend the price. This is even worse since the PS3 did offer them Blu-Ray for cheaper than a stand alone player. While it was a niche market, X1 doesn't really offer anything to anybody.

@foxhound_fox:

Then explain the lack of success they are seeing with Windows 8, Windows Phone and Surface despite all the marketing.

Maybe that's because there were no games for years on the 360

Bluray player 50 bucks

State of the art voice and gesture control camera and microphone array 150 bucks

Next gen console built to last ten years with an upgraded Xbox 360 type architecture minus all the negatives for 299 bucks

Justified confirmed.

Despite the price the X1 shouldn't have much trouble selling this holiday season. Only time will tell. We will know how people feel about it more after both consoles are at least demoed in stores for comparison. If nothing else, X1 will distinguish itself as more than just pretty games. The success is to be determined but I know it's convinced myself and plenty others that they are trying to not only provide more immersive gameplay through Kinect and cloud tech but also offer streamlining for a myriad of other pastimes.

sounds like average murricane. Swap Madden for Fifa and you got real word average joe :P

To be fair, most of them were insane to start with.