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...This is very convoluted. We're just evaluating the value of an XBO with 1TB of memory. Best way we can do this is by subtracting the costs of the bundled games and 1 year of Live Gold. Based off of Amazon's pricing, total value of MCC, Unity, and Live Gold is ~$106, meaning that a 1TB XBO has a value of $293.
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.
The cheapest XBO package consumers can get is the MCC bundle (500GB XBO + MCC), which costs $349. Subtracting the cost of MCC, the value of a 500GB XBO is ~$321. This is the part where it's backwards because the 1TB XBO is cheaper in the context of the bundle Microsoft is offering at its store.