{"id":99716,"date":"2016-07-25T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T12:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=99716"},"modified":"2016-07-25T14:41:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T12:41:57","slug":"xbox-one-price-cuts-in-south-africa-microsoft-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/99716-xbox-one-price-cuts-in-south-africa-microsoft-answers","title":{"rendered":"Xbox One price cuts in South Africa – Microsoft answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

MyGaming recently reported<\/a><\/strong> on how the the Xbox One’s pricing was being slashed to R3,600 ($249)<\/strong>\u00a0internationally.<\/p>\n

As this specifically pertained to the American market, we reached out to local Microsoft representatives in order to find out whether we could see similar price cuts in South Africa.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it appears the answer is frustratingly open-ended:<\/p>\n

\u201cEach region determines their own pricing and the US price drop will not necessary translate into a price drop locally.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is understandable due to\u00a0the unique distribution market South Africa finds itself in, but given recent promotions<\/a><\/strong>, it’s not too far-fetched to expect Xbox One price cuts in the future.<\/p>\n

With the Xbox One S expected to launch on 2 August<\/strong>, price drops will be vital as retailers begin clearing out inventory for the new console.<\/p>\n

The Xbox One S is expected <\/a><\/strong>to launch \u201csometime in November\u201d in South Africa, bringing with it 4K video support, a new wireless controller, HDR support, and a smaller footprint.<\/p>\n

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Following international price cuts, we found out whether South Africans will see local Xbox one price cuts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":73709,"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":[2,7,4],"tags":[31,20704,1600,6524,2163,10065],"class_list":["post-99716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-hardware","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-drops","tag-local","tag-price","tag-south-africa","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99716","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=99716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99720,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99716\/revisions\/99720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}