XBOX COMMUNITY!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Started by Slayer, Sep 05, 2014, 02:13 AM

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the-pi-guy

that is backwards thinking you do not pay less than $399 for everything... you are not paying less than the cost of purchase for the bundle...
bundle_savings != lower_price(x||y||z)
bundle_savings == total RSP - bundle_price
"For just " bundle_price "you get " total_RSP " worth of products!"
"A savings of " bundle_savings "!"

price of any part of bundle != bundle_price - bundle_savings

you do not know where they are cutting that extra cost from... most likely since all other xbox ones are selling for $349 the extra $50 is where the lump sum of the extras come from which bought seperately would be at most $180 but MS doesn't really have to pay itself for a year of XBL gold subscription so it would be more like $120 (their costs)
Halo MCC 28.12 @walmart for physical copy 49.99 @ best buy
assasins creed unity is $19.99 at target and gamestop....

so the only thing you're really getting for free with this deal is the XBL subscription and saving gas

regardless it is a decent bundle not great but decent and highly favorable if you want one or both of those games.

However, saying you get the xbox one for whatever price less than you are getting the bundle for is erroneous as you are not paying for the device by itself separately for less than $399.
Things like this completely depend on how you want to look at the problem.  

What am I saving from getting this bundle?  
Well, I'm saving say 50$.  
Why that'd be like getting one of the following
-getting an Xbox One for 299$
-getting two free games
-getting free Xbox Live for a year

We could construct 3 equivalent scenarios from the bundle.

-Man walks into a store and buys the bundle, leaves the store with 400$ less than when he went in.
-Man walks into a store, buys a 299$ Xbox One, 2 games and XBL, and leaves the store with 400$ less than when he went in.
-Man walks into a store, buys a 349$ Xbox One, 2 free games and XBL, and leaves the store with 400$ less than when he went in.
-Man walks into a store, buys a 349$ Xbox One, 2 games and free XBL, and leaves the store with 400$ less than when he went in.

Understandably, there is no flexibility with the bundle, as he can't walk away with a 299$ XBO, but regardless of that, in all situations, provided he buys the same things, the result is identical.  
If one wants to look at the glass half full vs half empty or vice versa, as long as they are identical scenarios, one should be able to look at the scenario any way they like.