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Microsoft Cuts Xbox One Price To $249 - Would You Buy or Recommend One? (theverge.com)
Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: Microsoft is cutting the price of its Xbox One console to $249. The new price marks the third price cut in less than two months, ahead of the new Xbox One S launch on August 2nd. 500GB versions of the Xbox One are now $249, and this includes bundles with games like Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, Quantum Break, Forza Motorsport 6, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Rare Replay. Retailers like Best Buy and Amazon will be selling Microsoft's Xbox One console at the new $249 price point immediately, and the software giant says the consoles will be available at $249 "while supplies last." Microsoft's aggressive Xbox One pricing follows a sales gap between its console and Sony's PlayStation 4. Sony has sold more than 40 million PS4s, but it's not clear exactly how many Xbox Ones have been sold as Microsoft hasn't provided sales figures for quite some time. EA previously revealed Microsoft had sold 19 million Xbox One consoles back in January.
It's still a Microsoft product. It still mostly plays games of a genre that I don't care about (doom clones). Maybe if I was a single guy with money to burn and time to kill, I would be interested but there is no room in my life for a Microsoft or Sony console right now at any price.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
My xbone gets the most use out of my gaming devices. Partially because of the games, but also because it actually makes a surprisingly good streaming hub also as a window 10 OS it in theory could get apps and other neat things from windows.
Media Stuff:
I use Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and various other premium channel apps (HBO, CW, etc). While the ps4 does many of those, I have to open each app and hunt for the shows I want. the xbone lets me do a search via voice and then asks what app to open the show in. Way more convenient. The xbox also does live TV and has tv guide and all that stuff. Basically, it replaces the features of a smart TV+
Game specific stuff:
Exclusive wise, Sony still has an edge, but it's pretty small. That's when I typically use my ps4. Quantum Break is good, but short. Tomb Raider is amazing, but will likely be coming to PS4 in the next year. I'm also a bit a halo fanboy, so that helps.
Both consoles give free games each month if you have their premium account thing.
Xbox one however has backwards compatibility with a bunch of 360 games, so I'm using that a lot as well.
Other Stuff:
You can also use the xbox as a miracast receiver, which I use fairly often and works well. Granted you can get a standalone receiver for WAY cheaper, so don't buy it for that.
I loved xbox fitness, but they are killing it... Still a bit frustrated at that.
Xbox can be targeted with universal windows app, since it's a windows 10 machine at the core. So the preview program has just started getting actual windows 10 apps on it. Which I'm very curious if that will be awesome or horrible; to early to tell.
fuck your ads
Headline on the story just below this one:
"Microsoft Can't Shield User Data From Government, Says Government"
That certainly does make for a ringing endorsement that you should buy an Xbox one and attach an always on microphone...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
As long as you don't connect it to the internet, Nintendo will likely never prompt to download anything. You migth still have to update firmware, but much like you had to for PS3's/PSPs - the game disc which needed a specific firmware brought it on-disc and it would be a 20min affair sans-data spending. And Nintendo still has the focus on family gaming in mind - this is the reason I bought one for my parent's and lil' 4yo sister's living room.
Because social media/blog/web site best practices tell you that if you ask a question in your post you tend to get more responses. That means more page views. That means more ad views. And it worked - you commented. Sucker.
Oh, you asked a question and I answered too. Sucker.
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I am a HUGE fan of the Forza series. But I hate playing racing games with a joystick, and I don't have the space for a real steering wheel & pedals. So the XBox 360's "Wireless Speed Wheel" was perfect for me.
Microsoft lost a customer when they released XBox One without support for XBox 360 controllers and no replacement for the 360's wireless speed wheel. Leaving behind the XBox360 controllers was a blatant money grab, but if they'd have come out with a replacement for the WSW, I'd probably have paid full price & bought the box on launch day. As it is, I still play the original Forza on my 360. And when I needed a next-gen console, there was no reason not to buy the PS4.
1. New brake pads and rotors for my car
2. One month's 74 degree AC setting on my large, two story home.
3. A twenty Seven year subscription to Netflix's streaming services
4. Ten $25 dollar Prime steaks to grill.
5. 4 physician co-pays
6. Twelve and a half tanks of gas
7. A Primo Backpack
8. Round Trip Tickets to Vegas and a two nights at a shitty Hotel.
9. $451.53 after 20 years of 3% interest, compounding annually.
10. A 5/10 hooker for the night or a 10/10 hooker for 30 minutes.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Quit trolling. I am also an employed adult and I don't spend my time "chasing down the latest drivers or spec-ing a new video card" either. This isn't 1995 anymore; PCs "just work."
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Nintendo was abusing its customers back when Microsoft was still busy making Flight Simulator for DOS. There is no "nice" gaming console maker, especially since Sega left the market.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Easier to browse the list here or here.
Actually, I think you were moderated down because your post contained nothing of value. Next time try less profanity and more expository.
Fanatically anti-fanatical
Consoles provide a computer that, relatively, easily plays games. No tinkering or fussing required.
They also do other stuff, relatively tinker-free, that you'd want to do near your TV & sound system -
- Connect to streaming music & video services
- Play CDs, DVDs & Blu-ray
- Connect to video and audio content libraries in your home
- Control your TV with your voice.
Yeah, yeah, I know you can do all this stuff with a PC as well, but with an XBOX it's set-and-forget (and, most importantly, wife-friendly).
A lot of the respondents to this post just don't get it. At a certain point the computer is not the ends, it is a means. Consoles provide a computer that, relatively, easily plays games. No tinkering or fussing required.
Instead of not working and expecting me to figure out what I need to do to fix the computer, they sometimes do have a update to install first. That is fine, I switch to some other task, or read, while that is happening. . . or just play a different game and instal the patch when I am done for the day.
At a certain point, the computer ceases to be a hobby unto itself.
An off the shelf PC will play games with exactly the same amount of "tinkering" as a modern console requires.
No it won't. An off the shelf PC - DELL, Lenovo, Acer - has a 120watt power supply, an integrated intel video card that is directx 9 compatible. It won't play anything other than solitaire without a lot of tinkering. Oh, it's the buyers fault for not doing their research and buying a 'proper' PC, right? You buy a PS4, it plays PS4 games. You buy a PC...maybe. Did you check to make sure it has 8 lanes PCIe? 400 watt PSU? proper connectors? No? Toss a coin on whether that game will work or not....