If you have an Xbox series that you haven’t turned on in a while, Microsoft wants to do you a favor: get it out of your way. Because it looks like they’re emailing some users in the US warning that if they don’t want it, they can give it a second life and make a few bucks.
What a coincidence that this is a month after the launch of ‘GTA VI’.
mail. It was the Nintendo account on Twitter that first shared the email. In it, Microsoft suggests that you can sell your console at Best Buy if you’re switching to PC or another platform. The payment chain contained a gift card to be spent and was so outlandish that, rightfully so, users began to doubt the validity of the message.
However, Xbox itself later confirmed to Gizmodo that the message was authentic and, as we see at TechPowerUp, the promotion appears to be limited to the US at the moment. There’s no confirmation, but when Xbox announced new price increases for its consoles this summer, it said there would be a series of campaigns to get consoles at better prices. This appears to be one of those promotions
Email shared by Nintendodeal account
The numbers don’t add up. Sounds like a good idea, right? At the moment, the Xbox Series S that launched at 299 euros is for 500, while the 500 series is why it makes sense that Xbox launched this campaign, but the problem is that users are going to get very, very little money.
Specifically, $375 for a series
If that user decides to sell it themselves, they can get a few hundred dollars more, so the Xbox and Best Buy deals offer only one thing: convenience. And look, if you’re dealing with some wallop guys, it’s worth giving up making money to avoid a fight.
Crisis, of course. In the background is a problem that does not need elaboration at this point because it is well known: the material crisis. Soon it will be a year when the alarm started ringing and things got worse.
Buying any device is much more expensive than it was a year ago, but when it comes to consoles we saw that the Xbox series
In the case of Xbox, things are bloodierAs they seem to have no ability or intention to produce new consoles according to market demand and indeed, even though the RRP is 800 euros, it’s hard to find them at that price in some stores because… there aren’t any.
Bug: ‘GTA VI’. But we need to keep the Xbox series on the road and, if they can’t do more, it’s time to recycle. November 19 is approaching and with it, the launch of one of the most anticipated games in history Like it or not, ‘GTA VI’ is going to be a generational milestone and Microsoft wants Xbox to be in that conversation.
The store wins here, the user carrying the console off their back wins, and a Microsoft win to be able to sell an Xbox to anyone who wants it for both ‘GTA’ and services like Game Pass. in the end, You need to monetize the userAnd if that Xbox is dead, untouched, hidden in the TV cabinet, let someone else have it who will take advantage of it and pay for it. Or so Microsoft would think.
For that amount, and even if it’s for watching movies in 4K or for the future, I… wouldn’t sell it.
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