Sales of Microsoft's Xbox One are doing better compared to last year and earlier this year. The Gears of War bundle is cheaper because it does not include the Kinect motion sensor. The Xbox One with Kinect Bundle costs $499, and the Xbox One Special Edition Gears of War Bundle costs $349. Touting a week of bundles, Microsoft on Thursday came up with two new deals, one for fans of the Gears of War video game franchise and one for Kinect aficionados. Microsoft is trying to score during the holidays by bundling its Xbox One with popular video games. PS2 kept taking share by cutting price.Will holiday buyers bite at Microsoft's new Xbox One bundles? The problem is that if by spring ’15 they cut the price to $400, Sony goes 349 for ours! Sony right now is in a position to stay ahead of them, and this is what happened with the PS2.
That’s the easiest way to do the price cut. "Just the way they introduced the 4 GB Xbox after a couple years, they’ll bring one out and it’ll be something that’ll look a little dumbed down… I think they’ll actually pick the core model and put a 2 TB hard drive in it, and then the dumbed down one will have a 500 GB hard drive, and it’ll have no Kinect, and it’ll be 400 bucks. I think unbundling Kinect is the smartest way to get competitive right away." This speculation, while a move that's been heavily requested by gamers for quite some time, does make a lot of sense for Microsoft, and Pachter points to the current price point of the hardware as incentive enough to remove Kinect as a mandatory feature.
In the latest edition of Bonus Round, Pachter laid down a prediction that Microsoft will be ditching the mandatory camera peripheral in favor of a Kinect-less Xbox One bundle. With that in mind, it's not surprising to hear that the vocal and heavily publicized analyst is at it again, but this time he believes that Microsoft will make some notable changes to its current Xbox One SKU. One of the more recent claims from Pachter is that the PS4 will outsell Xbox One by 66%, but he also believes that Sony's forthcoming PlayStation Now service is a "joke."
Those who've kept up to date on gaming news in recent years have undoubtedly been subject to one or more of Wedbrush Securities analyst Michael Pachter's predictions.
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