Xbox One Drops Back To $349 in the US Indefinitely

<p>It was last October that Microsoft slashed the Xbox One&&num;8217&semi;s price-tag <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;microsoft-rolls-xbox-one-bundles-galore-just-350&sol;">down to size<&sol;a> in the good &&num;8216&semi;ole US of A and now it looks like the company&&num;8217&semi;s doing it again&comma; this time for a whole lot longer&period; We don&&num;8217&semi;t know for how long yet&comma; but at the time of this writing &lpar;Jan&period; 16th&rpar;&comma; the Xbox One&&num;8217&semi;s down to &dollar;349&period; For good&comma; apparently&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Just two weeks after the system went back up to its standard retail price of &dollar;399 Jan&period; 3rd&comma; Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s touted that the Xbox One was the best-selling console in the US during both November and December&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the company&comma; the Xbox One&&num;8217&semi;s average weekly sales as of late have outpaced the Xbox 360 by over 50 percent during the same period in the latter&&num;8217&semi;s lifecycle&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Microsoft also concluded that over 18 million games have been played in the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;halo-5-guardians-beta-preview&sol;"><em>Halo 5&colon; Guardians<&sol;em> multiplayer beta<&sol;a> and counting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Xbox division head Phil Spencer personally thanked the company&&num;8217&semi;s fans as part of the system&&num;8217&semi;s rapid success&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Since it launched last year&comma; Xbox Feedback has been instrumental in helping us best determine what our fans want and expect from us&comma; and it’s clear that the Xbox One wouldn’t be what it is today without their valued input&comma;” Spencer said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re incredibly proud of the Xbox One and are fully committed to ensuring it’s the best place to play console games in 2015 and beyond&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Did you buy an Xbox One during the sale last fall&quest; Or are you motivated to buy one now&quest; Let us know in the comments below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;news&period;xbox&period;com&sol;2015&sol;01&sol;xbox-one-record-breaking-holiday-look-ahead-2015">Xbox Wire<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;