Xbox One already being offered on sale.

Hey guys, surprised the dozens of cows around haven't posted this yet, but it appears the Xbox One is already getting an actual system sale, apparently Target is offering it for $500 with a $50 gift card technically making it $450.

Pretty surprised to see this so soon, news comes from Neogaf.

would be a great deal if you werent getting an X1. =P

Store giftcards are pointless unless you shop there often. You basically don't get your money back it's just used to "buy" undecided products at the store.

Unsurprising.

How is it a bad thing exactly?

I've seen Xbone's on sale for 469.99 on New Egg, Fry's Electronics, Ebay, and Amazon...but these sales come and go. Target's getting in on the deal. I know Costco also has their own deal where you save $20.

Target giving a $50 gift card for a $500 Xbone purchase is nice...but it hints to me it is better to wait for new colors/price drop/game bundles that have got to be on the way after seeing the latest sales figures, at least in North America. NA is home territory, and while the world may be leaning PS4, the NA has been a very supportive area for the Xbox Brand save for the recent NPD lower Xbone sales numbers, and I think a big push towards catering to the western crowd is still incoming with an inevitable bundle if one can hold out even a few more months.

I would recommend that those on the fence wait it out for E3 or an announcement in a few months if sales maintain their trend. At the very least, wait for a Titan Fall Xbone Bundle, color bundles, price drops at E3, if not a GeOW or Halo 5 bundle.

One retailer?

Seems like they are having trouble getting them off shelves.

Price drop incomming

M$ is doomed!!111

Not really, this way I can get the Xbox One and a game for just $10.

Will buy one when the gift card is $500 lol

If this is somehow a "bad" thing. We mind as well say the same thing if it happens to the ps4 in the future. Any sale on anything you are interested in should be a good thing. It's not like it isn't selling, but this would probably help it sell even more. Not really surprising to me, to see it on sale. The price point is hurting it atm and this "might" make more people interested in getting it. The $50 gift card could go towards a game or gold.

costco is selling xbox ones for $479

They had Ps4's selling at dick smith, with 10% discount, here in aus. Does that mean the doomz as well?

zing

nice one

Who said it was bad?

@TwistedShade: That's not a sale. You still have to pay $500 for the system. You just get to buy something else at Target for $50. You're not really saving any money. You're just getting an addition item for free. If they let you take $50 off of the XB1, then that would be good. Microsoft just needs to release another SKU without the Kinect in it for $399. They will do fine.

It is a sale. Target sales the same basic items you can buy at any supermarket so it's not like there is nothing else there you would ever buy.

Yeah but than you're stuck with an Xbox 1 and the PS 4 is still 50$ cheaper.

still not cheap enough, i doubt i will pick one up until it hits $399.

Technically, it makes it $500 but you get $50 to use on a game or accessory or whatever else in the store you want. This is an incentive to buy, not a price drop or sale.

I'd rather have someone pay me to take the Xbone off their hands.

Why would cows post this?

Target's offering a $50 gift card with a purchase of the One. I wish they offered that with the PS4 when i purchased it.

because nobody wants the one while PS4 is selling out like hotcakes

business 101

It would have been nice, for sure. Sony did put in a $10 gift card in those launch PS4s for PSN use, which was a little bonus.

I know Target had a B2G1F on PS4 games during PS4 launch, so while it's not as nice as a $50 giftcard, getting a free $60 game or PS4 controller was nice if you bought two other items.

@SolidTy: well NA was good the x brand with 360, lets not forget PS2 crushed the Xbox there. This world going ps4 isn't a big surprise is it? Really? With 2/3 gens dominance, people really didn't expect it?

PS4 has been reduced by 20 bucks some places in the UK on specific sales.. sales happen.. people are idiots.