Best Buy has a good trade in deal for an Xbox One this week...
1The deets...
- Trade in any working Xbox 360 or PS3 console and receive a $50 coupon toward an Xbox One.
- Trade in a working Xbox 360 250GB or Sony PlayStation 3 Slim and receive a minimum $100 gift card.
- Trade in a working wireless Microsoft or Sony controller with console and receive $10 per controller (maximum 4).
- Condition, documentation and accessories may affect value.
You also get a 50 coupon towards an xbox one
So you can get $150 towards a new Xbox. Best deal I've seen so far.
Also, if you buy an Xbox One on Saturday you get a 1 year subscription to Xbox Live.
You can also use the Best Buy 10% off coupon if you get the change of address packet at your post office.
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Gamestop will probably also give you $2 for all of your old games
@lichme I think best buy buys games too now
You can also get about 50 cents for Cormac McCarthy paperbacks at your local used book store.
Desperate attempt to sell a game console that nobody really wants. Well, maybe a few people but who really wants to have a camera spying on you all day long?
@cengland0 Me! I talk to that stupid camera all the time to pause movies and stuff.
@Moose And the NSA, FBI, and CIA are watching you 24 hours a day too. Also, how do you know people at Microsoft are not spying using a backdoor?
@cengland0 They have plenty of other cameras to spy on me with, what's one more
@cengland0 They already have your face anyway, and have probably added housekeeping habits to your profile. Your fault!
@cengland0 They've mostly given up on the Kinect camera now. Most of the new console bundles don't include it.
@cengland0 I agree that the XBone isn't doing very well, but I don't think it's for that reason. Microsoft put on a train wreck level PR performance leading up to launch and Sony capitalized on it, including a $100 price difference at launch. I think the main problem is what it always is with new consoles - no games. That's starting to get a little better but a ton of highly anticipated titles got pushed to 2015. Of course the holiday season is coming up so I'm sure they'll sell a bunch. Personally I don't know if I'll ever own a console again, all of my gaming is done on a PC now.
@cengland0 It's a great trade in deal. The hardware isn't as good as PC, but it's still better than my iMac running bootcamp. However, one day I will build a kick ass gaming PC.
@JonT @kevin I think an other part of the problem is the Xbox one is not backward compatible with the Xbox 360 games. If I would purchase the Xbox one, I would need to keep my old xbox 360 console to play the existing games I already have. I refuse to pay for the same game twice.
@Kevin For sure! It's still a great deal for an XBone.
I wouldn't really suggest getting one regardless of price, as there's some talk Microsoft may dump the whole Xbox division, essentially leaving the games business:
http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/11/investors-call-for-microsoft-to-abandon-xbox-4299255/
I have a 360 and love it and play it regularly, but the One flopped pretty hard. In Japan it was the lowest-selling new console in 15 years. Sooner or later the investors are going to stop putting up with those kind of results.
@Starblind
lol bing. I don't know about the future of consoles in general. They're getting closer and closer to gaming PCs and at this point they pretty much are low-end PCs. Unfortunately Steam Box didn't really have the impact that I thought it would, but I think that's the directions consoles are going to go.
@Starblind I don't like Microsoft or Xbox, but I hope they don't leave the market.. I think the competition drives Sony to produce a better product, and helps keep the cost down (slightly).. If Sony were the only option (for real games, not wii), I think the console would be a lot more expensive, and the game prices would continue to rise.
@kadagan I agree, I'm all for competition as long as consoles are around which is partially why I was hoping Steam Boxes would be a bigger deal, even more competition that would push both Sony and Microsoft to react.