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Starting Today All Xbox One 500GB Bundles on Sale for $249.99

Saving money is one thing that everybody loves and starting right now all Xbox One 500GB Bundles are on sale for a $50 discount.

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crazychris41242847d ago

Gotta clear out stock and make room for the S

dirkdady2846d ago

..and yet the price cut does not compel me to buy an Xbox one. Owned a 360 before but honestly I don't know what will convince me to pick one up.
It's like some sort of mental dissociation on a subconscious level.. Sony imbeding subliminal messages in their movies and trailers? ....must go see magnificent seven with Denzel Washington...

Cindy-rella2846d ago

This is literally the 6th price drop for xbox one since launch and i can almost guarantee that there will be another one around Christmas.

sonarus2846d ago

I still dont see no must play games on the Xbox one. But to be fair minus Uncharted no real must play on PS4. Best games this gen have been multi platform at least in my opinion. I already own ps4 an xbox one would be redundant when i dont see any games on the horizon that have me excited. Perhaps gears of war tho

UltraNova2846d ago (Edited 2846d ago )

It does until you remember that scorpio is up next so why buy the soon to be side-lined xb1 s?

I cant see how would things get better for the MS camp for the the next 15 or so months...

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Foehammer2847d ago (Edited 2847d ago )

Agree, especially with the pre-orders on the S doing so well.

I'm wondering if the original X1 will be phased out and the S will become the standard X1?

I suppose they could keep the original as a low cost alternative.

Christopher2846d ago

It would make little sense to not make the "S" the standard. They want to promote the 4k streaming and upscaling.

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rainslacker2846d ago

@Chris

They may want to keep a cheaper version on the market for the budget conscious. X1S is the first "slim" which is actually more than the model it's replacing, which is kind of untested in the market. Extra features may not matter to most without a 4K TV, so that puts the Xbox about on par with the PS4 price wise since I feel the PS4 will probably get a price drop soon as well.

butchertroll2846d ago (Edited 2846d ago )

Looks like there are bunch of old fat Xbones on the shelves and also looks like sales for fat Xbones are damn bad when MS offered such a low price. You can also buy Xbone for 209$ at Newegg : http://www.ebay.com/itm/381...

The brand value of the Xbox One is dropping badly, if they having firesales on this. I'll bet that fat Xbone will be 200$ during this holiday. You still can find Day One editions. PS4 is still selling along at $349 and still remains in the lead, Microsoft might have a reason to be concerned.

EDIT ; LOL at disagree votes. Xbone fans should understand this : You don't do these moves when your are comfortable at your sales, clearing stock or not.

I'll bet that PS4 won't be at that price when Slim will be announced.

Yui_Suzumiya2846d ago

I saw Xbox One at the pawn shop last month for $180 and PlayStation 4 for $240

butchertroll2846d ago (Edited 2846d ago )

@SolidGear3

Pawn shop is another thing, man. Used consoles too. I also can find on Amazon.de Xbox One 1TB for 163 Euros. Used, of course.

VforVideogames2846d ago

disagree votes are because of your "we all know this and its not necessary to say it again" comment.

343_Guilty_Spark2846d ago

thanks for the link. I just bought five!

Kribwalker2846d ago

http://www.bit-tech.net/new...

They did it last time and it wasn't even for a slim, what makes u think they won't do it now

MachuchalBrotha3162846d ago

@solid, so you went to a pawn shop and saw a used xbox one for $180? Oh my.... what a surprise.

andibandit2846d ago (Edited 2846d ago )

pricedrop from 299 to 249 = Firesale

Ok, another lesson learned at N4G

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XanderZane2846d ago

That's exactly what they are doing. They aren't manufacturing anymore bulky XB1's and they need to clear out that inventory for the XB1 S. I won't be surprised to see the original XB1's at $200 come November.

@dirkdady
I don't think anyone cares. It doesn't make me want to buy a PS4 Neo or PSVR in October either. I'm not buying any new hardware this holiday season and I doubt anyone really cares. For anyone who wants a cheap bulky XB1 at a cheap price, now is the time or wait until November for even better deals.

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YinYangGaming2847d ago

Considering stock is apparently low for the S I would've thought they might have waited a little bit to clear stock unless they've got a lot of stock

Dario_DC2847d ago

It's getting sold for 160€ or less, used, where I live and no one buys them... Some stores won't give you over 75€ for one. The new S model made the original Xone kinda worthless.

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30 Best Xbox One Co-Op Games

Legend has it that this list of the best Xbox One Co-Op games is so good, it may require four people to fully enjoy.

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It’ll Be Fine, Right? Five Games With Unfortunate Release Strategies

Mark from WellPlayed writes about five game launches that were impacted by unfortunate scheduling.

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jznrpg369d ago (Edited 369d ago )

Zero Dawn sold really well so I’m not sure this belongs. The second game released next to a big game again and it hurt it some I forget what it was though, oh yeah Elden Ring .
But a good game is a good game to me I don’t care when they release personally but they do have to think about it when you want to get more people to buy it.

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The Tomb Raider Survivor Trilogy's Take on Lara Croft Deserved More Recognition

The Survivor Trilogy was a drastic reimagining of Lara Croft and Tomb Raider, and it provokes changes for the character that are truly fantastic.

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isarai483d ago (Edited 483d ago )

Deserves less IMO, i think the 1st in the new trilogy was a perfect 1st step for the new direction. The next 2 games were half steps at best. Not only that, every character in the series including Lara is just annoying and doesn't make sense in terms of motive, like yes they have a motive, but none of it seems proportional to the lengths they are willing to go through for it. The most annoying thing is every one of the games say "become the Tomb Raider" yet 3 games later and we're still not there? No thanks. Then there's the mess of the 3rd game, massive skill tree that serves almost no purpose as there's literally only like 3-4 short encounters in the whole game, and they took till the 3rd game to finally manage some decent puzzles even remotely close to previous games in the series. Nah, the trilogy infuriated me to no end as a long time fan of the series, i hope we get better going forward cause that crap sucked.

Army_of_Darkness481d ago

The first in the trilogy was my favorite. I thought they were going into the right direction with that one until the second one came out and seemed like a graphical downgrade but the gameplay was okay. As for the Third, Graphics were really nice but it was kinda boring me to death with its non-stop platforming and exploring with not enough action! Well, for me anyway...

DeathTouch481d ago

Graphics on the 3rd one were abysmal. It’s more colorful and has more variety, but everything else was a noticeable downgrade.

The more open world with NPC quests was also handled very poorly, to the point I missed Angel of Darkness.

thesoftware730481d ago

I know it is your opinion, but she did progress as a character in each game, she even got more muscular and seasoned.

That is the thing, people first complained that there was not enough platforming and actual tomb raiding in the first and second games. Shadow remedied that and kept the combat elements.

3-4 encounters? huh? did we play the same game? there was plenty of combat and, the skill tree did matter, like being able to hang enemies from trees, set explosives traps on bodies, being able to counter, and that are just a few of the combat skills. The skill tree also had things like being able to hold your breath underwater longer, crafting upgrades, zipline upgrade, and climbing upgrades that all changed how you can approach situations.

Not knocking your opinion, but we definitely had different experiences. I had 98% completion on the shadow.

SoulWarrior481d ago (Edited 481d ago )

Sorry but i'm with him about the low number of encounters, the game throws loads of weapons and skills you're way with a comparatively low amount of places to actually use them, so they felt under utilised.

-Foxtrot482d ago

Yeah...no

It was awful, for THREE GAMES it was "become the Tomb Raider" where she went back to square one after each game. Not to mention after a huge reaction of killing someone for the first time she then becomes Rambo straight after and goes on a slaughter spree without a single other reaction. Her development was all over the place.

She was whiney, weak and in later game a little arrogant and selfish

Oh and the voice actress compared to the previous ones was not as good

Lara Croft deserved better and while they are decent games as they are, we deserved actual Tomb Raider games, we could have had better survival games if they just stuck with the original Lara Crofts origin about her plane going down. Surviving 2 weeks in the Himalayas...I'd have liked to seen that, who knows what mystical threat she could have faced in the mountains or underground some secret concealed cave.

Tacoboto481d ago

I thought Shadow of the Tomb Raider had better gameplay than Rise, but it annoyed me the most of the trilogy when I stopped to think about the story.

It's like they deliberately decided to make her unlikeable and did nothing to make the character you're playing as likeable or have even one sign of humility.

SoulWarrior482d ago

2013 I thought was a fine entry, but Rise and especially Shadow were painfully mediocre follow ups imo, I really didn't like how selfish and angry her character was in those two.

Terry_B481d ago

No. Please forget the crap completely.

northpaws481d ago

First one was decent, played through it twice.
Second one was okay, played through it once.
Third one was really bad, tried twice a year apart, still can't get through the first two hours, it is just really bad.

thesoftware730481d ago

Honest question, what did you find bad about it? the opening 2 hrs of Shadow were fantastic imo.

The opening was very similar to the first 2, what did you find really bad?

Not looking for an argument, just an honest question.

Starman69481d ago

3rd one just didn't feel like a tomb raider game. Possibly because the development was passed to another development team. Big mistake! Microsoft killed tomb raider making the first game a timed exclusive. Never recovered after that.

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