X1 available for $349 starting Nov 2; up to $150 savings

Not gonna lie, with my best buy movers coupon and gamers club unlocked this looks scrumtralascent

This is a nice deal. Still not interested in the system as I've got PS4, Wii U, and PC. But if I was I'd totally bite at this price. I wonder if Nintendo or Sony will counter with a price drop?

desperation at its finest. If they don't take at least one NPD this year I'm gonna die laughing.

Well I have zero will power confirmed. Pre-ordered the Unity bundle on Amazon... yaay.

@Bigboi500: is it 349 on amazon now?

Yes, for pre-orders and systems releasing on November 2nd.

Nice. i''l just trade in my 360 at the MS store (for that additional $100 off) and get the Sunset overdrive bundle for $250

Shit just got real.

$350 X1 bundles?

M$ just won the Holiday season. (I guess this was what Phil meant by taking it to them in the Holiday season. Sure its a desperation move, but desparate moves can some time pay off greatly.)

2015 will be a hell of a year when sees that they are losing their advantage.

Yeah and Sony will just sit by and let it happen, right? What makes you think Sony won't just match if necessary?

@Sagemode87: they can't compete with the mighty powers of halo and COD DLC. Wonder twin powers activate!

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Well they can hardly call it the Year of Xbox considering its game drought.

To think some gimps bought this gameless turd for $499.

the best games are on Xbox one.

this is a fact and cannot be denied.

They sure do, Simon.

Still butthurt over Driveclub?

Nope. Still butthurt over your terrible year?

@lamprey263: considering on avg the publisher only gets 18 bucks out of the retail price of 60 and developers keep demanding 50 mil budgets much of which goes in their pocket lol I think they say **** u very much :)

It's kind of funny to see people slamming this. There was a time when console deals were considered a good thing.

Xbone is ahead of the PS4 currently for the first time since December on Amazon. Take that for what it's worth.

Funny thing is Season 2 only has one review on Metacritic but it scored an 84 with an 8.8 user rating. Killer Instinct is a fantastic game.

And this is why competition is good.

Well $350 with 1 hot game while the PS4 is $399 with nothing will surely spark some sales.

Yeah, it's good because Sony knows they don't need to put much effort into outselling the bone, so they don't put more effort in. /sarcasm

Wow, that reflects just how few people care about KI. Imagine getting excited for content patches.

oh yeah, the sales argument... i nearly forgot about it.

All failed consoles, I don't see the X1 failing with the amount of attention MS is giving it.

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@GrenadeLauncher: Killer Instinct is far better than Metacritic shows. Those are reviews made up of takes from when the game was released with only six characters and a lack of options. KI is a legit great fighting game.

Funny thing is Season 2 only has one review on Metacritic but it scored an 84 with an 8.8 user rating. Killer Instinct is a fantastic game.

Wow, that reflects just how few people care about KI. Imagine getting excited for content patches.

imagine waiting a year for a driving game, only to find out that it is shit and doesn't even work online.....

oh wait, you dont need to imagine that

/high five

Didn't say anything about sales, friend. I said no one cared. :)

It's the Xbone experience without wasting money on an Xbone, Simon. Wait a year for the first exclusive to turn up which gets OK reviews. They're very considerate.

Having inferior multi plats compared to PS4 and being in last place in sales is a very hard pill for lemmings to swallow. Microsoft is finally making some smart moves by removing the previously forced and useless kinect so they can have price drops and try to catch up to the WiiU for 2nd place.

Yeah, Turn 10 and Playground are the masters of churning out passable (and missable) racing games. Activision should go to them for advice on refreshing COD and utilising microtransactions. >:)

Yeah, I like last gen games too. There were some real classics. The Dying Light devs are on the right track, though.

So basically Burnout Paradise then. Very next gen.

Still, that qualifies it as next gen more than being able to order pizza at the same time by shouting at your console. >;)

Naaaaah, mate. Nothing will be more fun than crash mode in Burnout 2.

RIP Burnout. **** you EA.

I wish the sunset overdrive bundle came in black. I would've possibly bit on it. White console would destroy the all black layout on my entertainment center :( I will hold out a little while longer as that's the only game for the system outside of MCC I am interested in for the XOne.

late adopting for the win.

prolly still not worth it though, all i play these days is world of tanks and whatever free crap comes out on gold.

@Kingpin0114: Will be interesting to see if Sony bothers responding

So... because few people care, it is a bad game? Strange logic.

FYI, Best Buy made a mistake for their ad in the 2nd week of November.

Xboxone + Kinect +Assassin's Creed for 350.

I'm sure it's great as a cross-gen expansion pack. A reason to get an Xbone? No.

That's true, but it wont work here in SWs.

It is a free to play game and MS made the business model perfectly clear before it was released. Yet it was marked down for a lack of content, even though MS said they would be continually supporting it and have added so much to it since. You can't make this shit up.

It's kind of criminal, because no one updates their reviews, so the original score sticks. So it'll forever look bad for not being a complete game at launch even though it was never supposed to be.

For $350 you buy a gtx 970 and play in 1444p. For the 792p-900p standards the Bone has, it should be sold for no more than 199.99

Yeah, too right. Cows talk up their hardware but you see just how weak the consoles are when you realise they can't perform 'teh next genz' at more than 30 fucking frames per second.

Does the same rule apply to Drive Club?

So can that $350 graphic card play games by itself or do you need a cpu, fans, case, motherboard, memory, hard drive, windows, power supply and so on? Or are you trying to say is that graphics card alone cost the same as a console but you still need to spend a lot more to allow it to work.