Microsoft offers $75 credit to select 360 users for upgrading to Xbox One

[Justin Kahn]

Microsoft is offering select Xbox users a $75 promotional gift code with the purchase of Xbox One. As reported on NeoGaf, the company is sending out letters to its "very best" customers via Xbox Live to notify them of the new promotion in hopes to convert more 360 users over to the new platform.

There has been no official word from Microsoft yet, so it is unclear as to who exactly is eligible for the deal. One way to find out is to simply turn on your 360 (making sure you are connected to Xbox Live) and see if there's a notice like the one seen above.

Those who are eligible must purchase a full priced Kinect-less Xbox One or a bundled version (from any retailer) and must activate the new console by July 31st to receive the $75 credit. Credit codes, which will be sent out via the Xbox One message center by September 15, must be redeemed by October 15, 2014 and spent within a year, according to the promo message from Microsoft.

While there are deals on Xbox One readily available from time to time already, the $75 is enough for one full brand new title and then some, and at the very least allows for consumers to effectively create there own bundles with any title(s) they like. 

Now about a month after Microsoft dropped Kinect as a mandatory purchase and offered the Xbox One at the same price as PS4, the company is continuing its push to get more of its latest generation consoles out in the wild. However, there are reports of some users receiving the $75 promo message who have already bought Xbox One, so it is unclear how effective it will actually be.

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[oldikes]

Well im NOT eligible because Microsoft decided to BREAK my original, many-dollars-spent xbox live account when I tried to change its windows live ID, rendering me unable to sign in the account on the xbox or the PC without errors, even after spending 2 hours on the phone where I was told, literally, that they did not know what was wrong and couldn't help me.

Id definitely take advantage of this and im sure id be eligible, but its not happening, apparently.

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

How about offering a $75 discount on a new unit itself, that far better value and I'm sure console buyers would appreciate it more.

 

[WangDangDoodle]

After all the crap they've pulled with this generation of Xbox, and the Kinect, I cannot believe people are naive enough to buy this thing. It's downright creepy. No wonder Microsoft is back-peddling and offering sweet deals.

The red flags:
It's always on. It's connected to the internet. It phones home (to big brother) frequently. It tracks your every move. It hears everything. It knows who you are. It can see you in the dark, and it knows if you're afraid! Seriously... it tracks your heartbeat. Yeah.

I can't even tell whether or not I'm being paranoid anymore.

 

[Blue Falcon]

The irony is that the most loyal and likely customers of Xbox brand have already purchased the console when it was $499 with Kinect since it's logical to believe that they were early adopters. The other gamers who had a source taste of MS's strategy and backpedaling either switched to PS4 or Wii U or are likely waiting for either console to offers some must have exclusives. Still, this is a good deal to get who hasn't switched over to consider the console as the price will effectively be 'just' $324. Good lesson that buying a console at launch isn't always optimal: not only will there be bugs/hardware issues to resolve (Xbox 360 RROD, PS4's poor quality thumb sticks on the DS4 controller), but if a console doesn't sell to expectations, you can expect significant price drops / new SKUs such as what we have seen with XB1. I think by Holiday 2014, we will see places dropping XB1 to $350 as even now at $400 it's still worse value than PS4.