{"id":96027,"date":"2016-06-22T07:49:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T05:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=96027"},"modified":"2016-06-22T08:59:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T06:59:42","slug":"microsoft-slashes-xbox-one-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/96027-microsoft-slashes-xbox-one-prices","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft slashes Xbox One prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has officially dropped the price of its Xbox One console again.<\/p>\n<p>The new international recommended\u00a0retail price for the Xbox One is <strong>$280<\/strong>, down over $70 from the console&#8217;s RRP of $350 in May.<\/p>\n<p>The effects of these new price cuts are\u00a0already being felt in South African, with local distributor Prime Interactive recently offering over <strong>R1,500<\/strong> off all Xbox One consoles over the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/95291-massive-xbox-one-price-cuts-coming-to-south-africa.html#comment-116255\" target=\"_blank\">weekend <\/a><\/strong>of 16-19 June.<\/p>\n<p>These price cuts are almost certainlybeing implemented to help clear stock for the upcoming Xbox One S and Project Scorpio consoles that Microsoft announced at E3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you picked up an Xbox One yet? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is why South Africans pay so much more for their graphics cards\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/95347-this-is-why-south-africans-pay-so-much-more-for-their-graphics-cards.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is why South Africans pay so much more for their graphics cards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Check out the smallest gaming PC case in the world\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/95055-check-out-the-smallest-gaming-pc-case-in-the-world.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Check out the smallest gaming PC case in the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/95769-the-biggest-movie-releases-in-south-africa-this-week-4.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has dropped the price of its Xbox One console&#8230;again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":89755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,4],"tags":[155,6524,19477,10065],"class_list":["post-96027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-xbox","tag-console","tag-price","tag-project-scorpio","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96027","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96029,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96027\/revisions\/96029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}