Microsoft defends Xbox One $500 price point--"We're over-delivering value"

Gamers always have been confused about the meaning of value...

"It cost 60 dollars so that's what it's worth!" .... Then they try to sell that product back to a gamestop a week later and are offered 10 bucks.

Again with this living room crap. What gamer spends his hard earned money on a 500$ games console not including games and other stuff, so that his little 5 year old can play his games all day in the comfort of the "Living Room"

I tell you now if i was to have my PS3 in the living room my parents would get pissed at me for spending too much time on it and whine that im hogging up the TV and make me play it in my bedroom.

Gamers just want a console that can just play games on. That's it. They are tying to make the Xbone into a Wii, Problem is, the wii is a family console and most households have that device in their living rooms due to the games. And that's why it worked! us othe gamers had the PS3/Xbox.

The Wii will continue to sell for years to come for the familily household that wants a family console. The Wii-U is The gamer version pretty much.

I refuse to buy the kinnect . If it means not buying a new xbox. Yeah i won't . give me an otpion to not get the kinnect and we'll talk. but i still wouldn't cuz the ps4 has better hardware and it still is 100$ more than the ps4. And i can live without halo 5 microsoft. lol....

I didn't even ask for any of this! I just wanted to play games. At this point, I'd be spending a couple hundred more dollars on features that I am never, ever going to use!

Over delivering value? Ok lets look at the list.

1 A camera and microphone bundle called Kinect which makes good games suck and pretty much ruins most of the experiences I may be looking for in a game console. For proof just look at the games that have come out on kinect, and have been absolutely terrible - most of them. The franchise titles that were ruined - most notably Steel Battalion and the Star Wars kinect titles - the only thing it does well is dancing titles, and honestly, who is really interested in those?

2 Television options I will Never Use because I do not watch TV and have not for the last 18 years.

3 Internet options for stuff I don't use or have an account for like facebook, twitter, and all that other nonsense.

4 A complete Lack of one of the few things actually useful in multiplayer gaming - a basic headset, and lets not forget you force me to buy a proprietary version straight from you, instead of just plugging in my own.

5 And what about options that I might actually want as a gamer? Like say the ability to buy and install my own hard drive to expand the system in a way that might actually benefit me? Oh yes, you will have proprietary HD's available that are probably more than double the cost I would spend on my own.

6 an utterly useless smartglass connection - why would I want to balance a tablet on my lap and have to put down my controller, during a game, to pick up the tablet to do something I should have been able to accomplish with a simple button press on the traditional controller? Not to mention I don't even own a smartphone or a tablet, so once again, this is utterly useless.

Where is the value again? I think MS has lost it. This is not a device aimed at gamers or gaming. It is some sort of frankenstien monster - overcharging for a pile of 'features' that I don't need and will never use. No thanks.

Let me get this straight Don, so your tellin' us to give you money for some crap we'll never use, to prevent us from doing what we always wanted to do with a "VIDEO GAMING CONSOLE" in the first place??..

Besides...with that kind of money, I can buy a PS4 AND a Videogame!!...

Pff!!...fend it for all I care, I'm still rootin' for Nintendo...

I'm a Sony fan boy through and through but i also hope MS does well because I'm going to own both anyways and I want them to both push the boundaries in gaming. With that being said, MS can come off being so arrogant, I really hope they can justify all these claims that have been made.

Thousands of dollars of value? That camera must be expensive. They could even add to their mythical value if they included free multi player and backwards compatibility.

Nah. Forget practical value. Stick with the imagined kind.

Xbox One: Delivering you moar Haloz and Call-a-Dooty.

Some big announcement. So shocking.

Over-delivering on the bullshit more like.

wait and see, when enough folks have both and all the pro's and con's are out then I will buy until then I will enjoy my 360 and ps3

"We're delivering thousands of dollars of value to people" lol

Sorry. I have no need to wave my hand and yell at my TV to do shit. I also do not need the extra HDMI inputs when I have a receiver for my surround sound and other devices. Taking out a $10 headset and giving me a $100 camera is not worth it.

'Mattrick believes consumers will choose the Xbox One for its suite of exclusive services and applications like an improved Xbox Live, as well as Skype, Twitch TV, SmartGlass, and Kinect.' ... No, I choose games.

Microsoft is truly a giant troll. The specs in a PS4 and Xbox One are so similar hardware wise. How is Sony able to charge $100 less? When you compare $400 to $500 for almost the same hardware, you're not "over-delivering value". You're failing at basic math.

Also, the eye is not $60 unless you're buying it from Microsoft and they overcharge you 20%

If I want to make my living room the center of attention, I can already just turn on my tv....and connect my PC tower to my tv if I needed.

''i come with chopstick and shove up mattrick's ass''(chinese accent)

I'm sticking with personal computers anyway, so...

Oh Micro$oft. I sincerely want to "Kinect" my foot to your face two times as much now.

Love this article. I read it when I need a laugh. Microsoft is funny...

"We're over-delivering value"

Take that value, and shove it. Shove that Kinect while you're at it.

Xbox One: "Over-promise. Under-deliver."

$500 isnt a ridiculous price point, but it's $100 more expensive than your competitor. What we've seen in the past is that video game consumers tend to look more closely at price than value. You'd think they would have learned from Sony's fiasco with the ps3. Sometimes I wonder how supposedly smart people can miss the mark.

Silly, silly Mattrick....I never tire of the brazenly dumb things you say in interviews. -=)

The problem is the over delivering value that no one wants or need Unless you are a straight up couch potato that spends tons of hours on the couch watching TV and playing video games.

Regardless of whether you're 'over delivering value' or not, $500 is $500, and your competitor is still $100 cheaper.

[Microsoft Executive #1] "Guys how can we con - I mean convince these saps to fork over $500 for our Xbox when Sony's machine is whole $100 less?"

[Microsoft Executive #2] "Just add the word value in there somewhere. If it works for McDonalds it'll work for us."

[Microsoft Executive #3] "HahaHa value... Pfft, As long as these suckers don't figure out we added a whole bunch of useless features to hike the price up! I'm fine with whatever gets these suckers to put more money in our bank accounts!"

[The entire board of Executives] "HAHAhahAHhAhahahahAHahahahAhahahahAH"

I must be rich because compared to my ipad, iphone, Xbox 360 elite and pc this thing is peanuts.

LMAO if only I could get a youtube video of the Microsoft big wigs in there suits at a conference and the guy in charge is like "OMG don't they get it We're OVER- Delivering value." (and his voice cracks on the OVEr) Lol these statements sound like they came from kids who got beat up in school.

its all right saying its not over price for what you are getting but here in the uk we are getting half of a machine I know its based in America where they are going to get all theses things with new machine and like we allus uk people do is wait till we get are half machine into a full machine hence sky sports live tv lol

"Overly-Delivering Value" sounds kind of douchey. (Sucky choice of words)

Why do I need twitter to play video games?

Leave it to some tone-deaf MS geek to come up with some totally out-of-touch corporate-speak phrase like "over-delivering value", whatever the **** that means. lol

The bottom line is the One is priced $100 higher than the PS4 and it remains to be seen if gamers see actual value in the Kinect 2.0 or not. I for one, will never buy a One until MS offers a SKU without a Kinect at $349. Period.

MS did the right and smart thing by shit-canning the horrible anti-consumer DRM (for now) because they knew they were going to get destroyed in sales if they didn't. Reported pre-orders at all major retailers like Gamestop/Amazon/BestBuy was as much as 5:1 in favor of PS4 prior to the reversal. So, MS back-pedaled because they had to. But, they still have a big problem: the PS4 is significantly more powerful (fact) and $100 cheaper. And, in case anyone isn't paying attention to the news lately, US citizens don't take kindly to being spied on by corporations or the government. Regardless of MS's intentions, it's mind-bogglingly stupid to *require* a camera be purchased with every One given the current political climate and people's fears about being surveiled by "Big Brother". It just proves how tone-deaf MS continues to be.

Remember your history MS: Sony "over-delivered value" with PS3...and tried to force gamers to pay more for features (Blue-Ray) they didn't want to have to pay for at the time. PS3's sales were terrible until Phil Harrison (ring any bells?) left and Sony offered a re-design and a price drop. And, keep in mind, this was in 2006 when the economy was still booming. In 2013 we are currently still in a global recession and people have LESS money to spend now than back then.