IGN - At Gamescom, Microsoft announced that everyone who pre-orders an Xbox One in Europe will receive a free copy of FIFA 14. It's an incentive that goes some way to justify the notable price difference between the two next-generation consoles. It's also another landmark in the "strategic relationship" that has grown between the two companies.
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EA has been Microsoft's whore lately.
EA and MS are getting realllly comfortable together. Not saying it's a good or bad thing. I'm just saying.
Yes, for people with more money than sense. If I was to get a PS4 with Fifa 14 (I´m not getting it) it would still be 40 bucks less than the XB1. If I got this Fifa bundle with the XB1 and another game it would cost me 560 bucks, whereas if I were to get any two games on the PS4 it would cost $520. Still 40 dollars less.
EA and MS really seem to love this money grub relationship they have.
This a good deal for those countries in Europe getting XB1 in part of 13 countries launch. The other countries won't get Fifa but another game to be announced. Still Sucks it's only available to those who pre-ordered though I doubt there are many open pre-orders left. This will get those left order pre-orders sold but beyond that if you buy in stores you get nothing. So I really don't see this really pushing that many XB1s in Europe beyond the initial reserved pre-ordered stock.
I'm not sure any third party company who publishes games for multiple consoles should help push one console more then another. They should be about the games not the hardware, they should be about just getting great games out equally to all customers. The problem with EA is they want to be about the games and gamers but as soon as someone waves some money in front of them they can't resist. We can only guess how much Microsoft had to lay out to them for fifa to be given away free.