Xbox Xdk For Sale

[Earleen Statham]

Xboxgets a separate sale than the PC versions. make sure you are part of the war thunder club on xbox live to get notification of the sale. They dont always announce it on the forum. It may be a month or more after the sale on the PC. No one know why its like this the only thing we can do is guess about how often game publishers can list sales on the xbox and playstation store.

Yeah quite disappointing there was no sales added to the Xbox sote this week for War Thunder for any of these packs especially given some of these packs will be removed soon and xbox will not see a sale for them just before they removed like PC gets.

I do think they needed to pivot, however. Those console sales were not coming back, and they are trying to evolve their gaming ambitions while not abandoning hardware entirely. Sony, meanwhile, remains locked into its huge-scale games releasing just within its console ecosystem or rarely PC, either just for multiplayer titles like Helldivers or years later for its single player games. That is its own sort of struggle especially with game budgets ballooning. And it cannot compete with the value of Game Pass in the present moment, and have few streaming ambitions. Its hardware investment into things like PSVR2 and PlayStation Portal has also been questionable.

Just had the ad again on instagram and managed to take a picture. Please see below. Can you advise why this isn't on xbox please? Would really like to purchase before the offer has ended, which looks like is the 21st March.

In an announcement on Xbox Wire, Microsoft published the list of on-sale Xbox 360 games, with the promise of more to come on June 18 and July 16. These price reductions will remain in place for each game through the 360 store closing on July 29, 2024, Microsoft said.

Last year, Microsoft announced that it would shut down the Xbox 360 Marketplace after 18 years. The service is scheduled to head into the sunset on July 29th, but Microsoft isn't letting the service go out quietly. Recently, the team has announced that it's holding one last major sale on the Xbox 360 Marketplace, giving players steep discounts on a swath of games from publishers big and small. The sale is currently ongoing, but Microsoft will add even more games to the sale over the next few weeks. While it's always sad to see a service like the Xbox 360 Marketplace go away, Microsoft is at least letting it go out in style.

Again, the Xbox 360 Marketplace sale has already started. The first wave of games in the sale is a solid chunk of games, but more are coming over the next few weeks. The second batch of games is coming on June 18th. We don't know what games are included in this batch, but Microsoft should announce those games closer to the update. After that, players can expect a third wave of games on July 16th. The sale ends on July 29th, so you'll want to get in quickly if any of the games in the third batch suit your fancy.

Below, you'll find the full list of games currently on sale in the Xbox 360 sale. Every game listed is on sale for 60% or more, but you'll want to head to the official site or the Marketplace to see the actual price. Remember, this list will be updated on June 18th and July 16, so check back to see the changes. Here is the current list of games on sale:

Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it made 31 percent less off Xbox hardware in the first quarter of 2024 (ending in March) than it had the year before, a decrease it says was "driven by lower volume of consoles sold." And that's not because the console sold particularly well a year ago, either; Xbox hardware revenue for the first calendar quarter of 2023 was already down 30 percent from the previous year.

Those two data points speak to a console that is struggling to substantially increase its player base during a period that should, historically, be its strongest sales period. But getting wider context on those numbers is a bit difficult because of how Microsoft reports its Xbox sales numbers (i.e., only in terms of quarterly changes in total console hardware revenue). Comparing those annual shifts to the unit sales numbers that Nintendo and Sony report every quarter is not exactly simple.

To attempt some direct contextual comparison, we took unit sales numbers for some recent successful Sony and Nintendo consoles and converted them to Microsoft-style year-over-year percentage changes (aligned with the launch date for each console). For this analysis, we skipped over each console's launch quarter, which contains less than three months of total sales (and often includes a lot of pent-up early adopter demand). We also skipped the first four quarters of a console's life cycle, which don't have a year-over-year comparison point from 12 months prior.

This still isn't a perfect comparison. Unit sales don't map directly to total hardware revenue due to things like inflation, remainder sales of Xbox One hardware, and price cuts/discounts (though the Xbox Series S/X, PS5, and Switch still have yet to see official price drops). It also doesn't take into account the baseline sales levels from each console's first year of sales, making total lifetime sales performance on the Xbox side hard to gauge (though recent data from a Take-Two investment call suggests the Xbox Series S/X has been heavily outsold by the PS5, at this point).

Even with all those caveats, the comparative data trends are pretty clear. At the start of their fourth full year on the market, recent successful consoles have been enjoying a general upswing in their year-over-year sales. Microsoft stands out as a major outlier, making less revenue from Xbox hardware in four of the last five quarters on a year-over-year basis.

Those numbers suggest that the hardware sales rate for the Xbox Series S/X may have already peaked in the last year or two. That would be historically early for a console of this type; previous Ars analyses have shown PlayStation consoles generally see their sales peaks in their fourth or fifth year of life, and Nintendo portables have shown a similar sales trend, historically. The Xbox Series S/X progression, on the other hand, looks more similar to that of the Wii U, which was already deep in a "death spiral" at a similar point in its commercial life.

In the past, console sales trends like these would have been the sign of a hardware maker's wider struggles to stay afloat in the gaming business. However, in today's gaming market, Microsoft is in a place where console sales are not strictly required for overall success.

For instance, Microsoft's total gaming revenue for the latest reported quarter was up 51 percent, thanks in large part to the "net impact from the Activision Blizzard acquisition." Even before that (very expensive) merger was completed, Microsoft's total gaming revenue was often partially buoyed by "growth in Game Pass" and strong "software content" sales across PC and other platforms.

So, while the commercial future of Xbox hardware may look a bit uncertain, the future of Microsoft's overall gaming business is in much less dire straits. That would be true even if Microsoft's Xbox hardware revenue fell by 100 percent.

This Steam sale offers various discounts on Microsoft-published games, including Sunset Overdrive for just $7 or the incredible Halo 4 for only $3. If you fancy taking a trip down memory lane or want to play some iconic games for very the first time, you can buy the bundle Halo: Master Chief Collection for $10. This essential sci-fi shooter package includes six classic Halo experiences.

Console players on Xbox Series X (or Xbox One) haven't been left out either. Right now Amazon is running its own sale on must-play Xbox games including the biggest discount to date on Starfield, the new RPG from Fallout developer Bethesda.

So whether you're playing on a powerful gaming PC or an Xbox console, you're currently spoilt for choice with all these unmissable deals. Now let's explore the best Xbox game deals you can grab right now....

Anything PlayStation can do, Xbox can do better. Okay, that's not technically true, but before I anger people on both sides of the imaginary console war any further let's move on to what we're all here for - the Xbox Spring Sale. PlayStation kicked off its spring sale this week and now Xbox has followed suit. More than 1,000 games on the Xbox Games Store have had their prices cut, some by as much as 50 percent, and below are some of the best deals you'll find among the hundreds available.

Xbox owners were left in the dark for quite a while when PC and PS5 players were gushing over Baldur's Gate 3 last year. Not only is that not the case anymore, but 2023's Game of the Year is currently available for less. At ten percent off, bringing its price down from $70 to $63, it might not be the biggest saving available, but it's worth cashing in on if you've been holding out. Baldur's Gate 3 is worth a lot more than $70, so it's definitely worth a heck of a lot more than $63.

Now's the time to dive into Night City if you haven't done so already too as Cyberpunk 2077's Ultimate Edition is also included in the Spring sale. That's the edition that includes the vastly improved base game and its Phantom Liberty expansion. A DLC so extensive that it almost feels like an entire game all by itself. Usually $79.99, Cyberpunk's Ultimate Edition is a third off, bringing its price down to just $53.59.

Even though we're not even a third of the way through 2024, two of the most notable games included in the Xbox Spring Sale are big titles that were released this year. No offense to either of them, but the two games you likely passed over in favor of other stuff the past few months due to how busy the release schedule has been. Skull & Bones, which has had its price cut from $70 down to $47, and Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League which is a massive 50 percent off, and that includes the free Joker update added last week.

The list of great games included in the Xbox Spring Sale goes on. Red Dead Redemption 2 is less than $20, WWE 2K24 is available for less, and EA Sports FC is just $14. You can also grab Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for less if you take part in its free trial this weekend and decide you like it enough to buy it since the Spring Sale doesn't end until Thursday, April 18, 2024.

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