{"id":753672,"date":"2013-05-29T08:49:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T12:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=155343"},"modified":"2013-05-29T08:49:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T12:49:53","slug":"xbox-one-to-cost-600-in-the-uk-says-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/753672","title":{"rendered":"Xbox One to cost \u00a3600 in the UK &#8212; says Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-155344\" title=\"amazon xbox\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/amazon-xbox-600x385.jpg?resize=600%2C385\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\" \/>Although Microsoft has yet to officially reveal the price of its next generation games console, Amazon has decided to set the figure at \u00a3599.99 on its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Microsoft-Xbox-One-Console\/dp\/B00BE4OUBG\/ref=sr_tr_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1369828517&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=xbox+one\" >pre-order page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is considerably higher than most people would have expected -- closer to \u00a3400 would have been a reasonable guess -- and dwarfs the launch price of the Xbox 360 which cost gamers \u00a3209.99 for the core system back in December 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Of course just because Amazon says it will cost \u00a3600, with free postage, doesn\u2019t mean that\u2019s how much interested shoppers will need to pay for the next generation device.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s likely to have been priced this high just so Amazon can send good news to pre-orderers when the real, much lower, figure is announced. The pre-order page does say \"Order now and you'll be charged the lowest price at release\", which is a good indicator that the figure Amazon has on its site is just a guestimate.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon.com has yet to put up a pre-order page, but expect it to appear shortly.<\/p>\n<p>How much would you be prepared to pay for the Xbox One? Will you be buying it at launch?<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=HuqygtTpv58:s8jrdYc3VYo:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=HuqygtTpv58:s8jrdYc3VYo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/HuqygtTpv58\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Microsoft has yet to officially reveal the price of its next generation games console, Amazon has decided to set the figure at \u00a3599.99 on its pre-order page. This is considerably higher than most people would have expected &#8212; closer to \u00a3400 would have been a reasonable guess &#8212; and dwarfs the launch price of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-3a40","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}