{"id":55368,"date":"2013-06-18T11:47:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T09:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=55368"},"modified":"2013-06-18T12:07:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T10:07:39","slug":"xbox-one-pricing-isnt-ridiculous-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/55368-xbox-one-pricing-isnt-ridiculous-microsoft","title":{"rendered":"Xbox One pricing “isn\u2019t ridiculous”: Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft\u2019s Don Mattrick hadn’t won the hearts of many gamers following his solution to Xbox One\u2019s always-online requirements<\/a> – now the Xbox boss has made a second attempt, saying that the company is “over-delivering value” with the Xbox One\u2019s price tag.<\/p>\n

“It’s a lower number than some of the analysts had forecast,” Mattrick said regarding the $499 pricing for the upcoming console.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Another interesting mention was that Mattrick referred to the new Halo game, known as Halo One at the expo, as \u201cHalo 5\u201d.<\/p>\n

A talking point of the interview is also the price difference between the Xbox One and the PS4, which Sony announced will be priced at $399. Mattrick emphasised the improvements to Xbox Live and its attraction as another reason for the higher price point.<\/p>\n

Source: Bloomberg<\/a><\/h6>\n

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Microsoft believes that its giving you too much with the Xbox One price<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":55369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,6757,91,6524,8679,243,10353,10065],"class_list":["post-55368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-don-mattrick","tag-microsoft","tag-price","tag-pricing","tag-xbox-2","tag-xbox-console","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55373,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55368\/revisions\/55373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}