What I don't get is this. Let's say that retailers are dumping the price because the Xbox One is not selling and taking up inventory and is clogging the system. We then have a Supervisor at Best Buy stating that it is the case that inventory is dead and it is not moving so they are going to dump the price and take a hit on it to get rid of it.
Now if your were a business person and you bought a ton of product and it does not sell and clogs up your stock rooms to the degree that you are taking a loss on said product, just because you want to get rid of it, would you buy more of them from the manufacturer?
That is what is odd about some of these people claiming this. If you buy a product for a National retailer to have in all of your stores across the country and that product does not sell and is causing a clog in the system and you take such drastic measures to mark it down, wouldn't you let's say put that in your weekly circular to get the word out? Anyone else find it odd that this has not happened?
And back to my other point, if the Xbox One is such a piece of shit and it sells like shit and you as a retailer are taking a loss on the unit, then why on earth would you, as a retailer go out and buy a shit load of Titanfall bundles to have in your stores? Why would you place even more orders of the standard edition to have in your stores if it is selling so poorly and you are taking a loss on it?
Can anyone explain this to me? It makes no business sense to buy more of the same product and then invest in buying into another of the same product with a game if it is doing so poorly?
MS reimburses them. They have faith that MS will market and try and sell the product. MS shows good faith by doing bundles and doing temporary sales. And X1 isn't necessarily doing poorly in America and the UK but when you consider they are producing nearly 1 million a month and only two markets sell large volumes of XB1s they need incentives to get retailers to continue purchase more in spite of their shelves being full of them. One way to do that is lowering the price of previously shipped units or offering a discount on new inventory.
Speaking of which...
What the heck...biggest game of the year (so far) and its getting discounted sales so quickly.
Can't speak for anywhere else but my local Walmart got at least twice as many xb1 titanfall copies as infamous. Today there is one copy of infamous left and quite a few copies of titanfall left even though it has sold more than infamous. I just think the game got a huge initial shipment.