Microsoft defends $500 pricetag for XBox One

[Nazulu]

I reckon $500 is fair with everything they've stuffed into the console, all those extra features I never wanted are probably expensive. However, I don't give a flying fuck for the damn Kinnect! There is no good excuse for why that is forced and for why it has that disturbing spying piece built in. It's separate from the damn Xhole for fuck sake! And after admitting to the other shit, they are still pushing this!?

 

[DelinquentTurtle]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/microsoft-defends-xbox-one-500-price-point-were-over-delivering-value-6410352

We're over-delivering value against other choices I think consumers can get. Any modern product these days you look at it [and] $499 isn't a ridiculous price point. We're delivering thousands of dollars of value to people, so I think they're going to love it when they use it.

"Thousands of dollars in value"? It's not hard to shut up and let the product do the talking, but MS beg to differ...I mean christ, they're only *just* recovering after the reversal of policies and the last thing they need their higher-ups spouting more bullshit all over again.

While MS have to stammer out a list of gimmicks disguised as applications/services to justify $500, all Sony has to do (once again) to retort is say "We'll give you a more powerful console for $400. Our motion/voice sensor is purely optional". Too easy.

I really don't understand how the $500 price point is so bad. Has anybody here tried building a PC recently? I got the parts for my new rig on sale from newegg, and with an i52500k, a geforce 560ti, and 8 gigs of RAM, I'm basically running something not far from the next gen consoles. It cost me well over $500 for that, and when you consider that over the next 10 years I would have to upgrade my PC hardware multiple times to continue playing new games (as console versions are optimized for consoles but PC versions obviously can't be), I don't see $500 as being unreasonable. The new kinect is now one of the only things keeping the xbone from being the xbox 360 2, and when you include that in the price (not to mention tv integration), it seems totally worth it to me.

Anybody who thinks that Microsoft should offer multiple pricing models and an optional kinect, just doesn't understand the videogame industry. To make the kinect actually part of the console product, it NEEDS to be included with every xbone. Otherwise, console peripherals are just that, expensive peripheral objects that nobody develops for. Its happened time and again (downfall of SEGA anyone?), and you would think gamers would understand this.

As far as PR goes, aside from 'hardcore' gamers like us, nobody has any clue what's happened over the past few weeks, and by November, this will have totally blown over.

Regardless of how much more expensive building a PC is, it is still a bad price point when you consider it will have a competing product which has better hardware at a $100 cheaper. It is well known that the PS4 outperforms the Xbone so you have to question why they are able to sell it cheaper with more expensive manufacturing costs. The answer mainly comes down to their insistance on including Kinect.

 

[Soopy]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/microsoft-defends-xbox-one-500-price-point-were-over-delivering-value-6410352

We're over-delivering value against other choices I think consumers can get. Any modern product these days you look at it [and] $499 isn't a ridiculous price point. We're delivering thousands of dollars of value to people, so I think they're going to love it when they use it.

"Thousands of dollars in value"? It's not hard to shut up and let the product do the talking, but MS beg to differ...I mean christ, they're only *just* recovering after the reversal of policies and the last thing they need their higher-ups spouting more bullshit all over again.

While MS have to stammer out a list of gimmicks disguised as applications/services to justify $500, all Sony has to do (once again) to retort is say "We'll give you a more powerful console for $400. Our motion/voice sensor is purely optional". Too easy.

I really don't understand how the $500 price point is so bad. Has anybody here tried building a PC recently? I got the parts for my new rig on sale from newegg, and with an i52500k, a geforce 560ti, and 8 gigs of RAM, I'm basically running something not far from the next gen consoles. It cost me well over $500 for that, and when you consider that over the next 10 years I would have to upgrade my PC hardware multiple times to continue playing new games (as console versions are optimized for consoles but PC versions obviously can't be), I don't see $500 as being unreasonable. The new kinect is now one of the only things keeping the xbone from being the xbox 360 2, and when you include that in the price (not to mention tv integration), it seems totally worth it to me.

Anybody who thinks that Microsoft should offer multiple pricing models and an optional kinect, just doesn't understand the videogame industry. To make the kinect actually part of the console product, it NEEDS to be included with every xbone. Otherwise, console peripherals are just that, expensive peripheral objects that nobody develops for. Its happened time and again (downfall of SEGA anyone?), and you would think gamers would understand this.

As far as PR goes, aside from 'hardcore' gamers like us, nobody has any clue what's happened over the past few weeks, and by November, this will have totally blown over.

Regardless of how much more expensive building a PC is, it is still a bad price point when you consider it will have a competing product which has better hardware at a $100 cheaper. It is well known that the PS4 outperforms the Xbone so you have to question why they are able to sell it cheaper with more expensive manufacturing costs. The answer mainly comes down to their insistance on including Kinect.

Even then, you would think the Kinect would merly offset the cost difference between the component deficit. Microsoft are just squeezing the pennies out of the consumers because they can.