Is the Xbox Series S already a failure?

[levitate]

I saw someone walking out of Best Buy with one today

 

[winb83]

It’s 200 new.

What do you think the price should be? It’s a budget console on purpose.


There’s clearly a market for it.

They cost $250 brand new. You should at least get $200 used. Taking a $100+ haircut on the price is brutal. That person likely paid $299 for it as if they bought it when it was $250 it would still be returnable.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

They cost $250 brand new. You should at least get $200 used. Taking a $100+ haircut on the price is brutal. That person likely paid $299 for it as if they bought it when it was $250 it would still be returnable.

Lots of recent deals had it at ~$200

If you look on ebay now, most have it on sale for around $215.

Cause you found one listing that may or may not be real doesn’t mean anything

 

[winb83]

Lots of recent deals had it at ~$200

If you look on ebay now, most have it on sale for around $215.

Cause you found one listing that may or may not be real doesn’t mean anything

Some recent deals had it at $250 with a $50 gift card like at Target. You still have to take a 40% cut on reselling it.
Meanwhile I see Series X consoles selling for $425 or so like a 15% cut on reselling. Even if you got one for $400 that's a 20% loss off full retail vs losing 40% off the sale price.

 

[Methodical]

There are a lof of fukking XSS at Best Buy and Wal-Mart but yet not even have XSX?

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Some recent deals had it at $250 with a $50 gift card like at Target. You still have to take a 40% cut on reselling it.
Meanwhile I see Series X consoles selling for $425 or so like a 15% cut on reselling. Even if you got one for $400 that's a 20% loss off full retail vs losing 40% off the sale price.

Breh it’s a budget console. Don’t get yourself so worked up

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

Mans really put a question mark in the thread title. Bless his heart.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I saw someone walking out of Best Buy with one today

Did you call the police?

 

[winb83]

Breh it’s a budget console. Don’t get yourself so worked up

The value people assign to it is pretty clear. You just trying to dismiss it as a budget console when these things are very easy to acquire and the perceived value is so low they’re selling used for the same price as a console from 2013.

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

Acardium users =\= mass market

 

[ball15life]

Acardium users =\= mass market

They tend to forget this with just about every argument in here

 

[GoPro]

Damn, how this either go undapped?

 

[MeachTheMonster]

The value people assign to it is pretty clear. You just trying to dismiss it as a budget console when these things are very easy to acquire and the perceived value is so low they’re selling used for the same price as a console from 2013.

They literally exist to be cheap as fukk. They cost as much as a 2013 console new. That’s the whole point.

 

[puggle]

Series S model most likely has saved Xbox’s ass so far this gen tbh. The real failure for them is the proprietary memory card they make people use, especially with how cheap the PS5 compatible drives have gotten. A 2 TB drive is $360 and that’s on sale you can get 2 separate 2 TB drives on PS5 for that much.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Series S model most likely has saved Xbox’s ass this gen tbh. The real failure for them is the proprietary memory card they make people use, especially with how cheap the PS5 compatible drives have gotten. A 2 TB drive is $360 and that’s on sale you can get 2 separate 2 TB drives on PS5 for that much.

shyt, by this time next year you might be able to get a 4tb for that much