Microsoft Sneaks Past Sony's Marketing Deal With Ultra Cheap Destiny 2 Bundle

Microsoft Has Skirted Around Sony's Marketing Deal With An Unofficial Destiny 2 Xbox One S Bundle.

[PhoenixUp]

Microsoft really misses having Bungie as their star developer

This isn't the first time something like this happened. Anybody remember Destiny perfume?

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[343_Guilty_Spark]

Most of 343i contains former Bungie devs. Who is the big name at Bungie? Can you name one?

[sk8ofmnd]

Even if bungie was split down the middle and half stayed and the other half went 343i, two things are certain, halo has not been the same, and destiny is what halo used to represent.

[Benchm4rk]

False. Not many people from Bungie stayed for 343. Almost all of the senior staff from Bungie stayed with them and continued to work on Destiny. The only recognisable name from Bungie who went to 343 was Frank O'Connor. Actual numbers is about 3. Funnily enough there was about 2 or 3 employees who left 343 and are now working at Bungie.

[QUIMICOMORTAL]

Desn't matter who is the big name! All that matters is that the scores, sales and relevance of halo has been diminishing since Bungie left!

[ThePope]

I only played the Beta but wasn't Destiny one JUST ok? I mean you can say how great everyone at Bungie is compared to 343, but their most recent game was OK at best. Especially compared to Halo.

[AuditorGamer]

This sucks. I was in the process of purchasing and checking out the Forza 1Tb Xbox S, but they conveniently don't have Destiny 2 in stock. Nice try MS. I'll pass this time. Missed sale.

[zerocarnage]

So you get the game free with the bundle, that mite sell some units and good on ms for doing that with a brand new game.

[nitus10]

Well, the more XB1s consoles they sell that reduces the number of people who would possibly purchase an XB1x. Sort of like a double edged sword or damned if you do and damned if you don't. 😎

[DoubleM70]

And you have know idea what they may offer when you buy the X ;)

[GamingCentaur]

Desperation at its finest.

[Prince_TFK]

Classic N4G. MS give out free game and people still bitching, moaning, complaining, and finding excuse to hate them.

[EyeAmTJ]

they acting like SOny doesnt do bundles with free games also haha

[Dragonscale]

@Eye, not with brand new aaa releases they don't. You must admit it kinda makes ms look a little desperate lol.

[4Sh0w]

Yeah, I dont see the problem.....this guy took a very common practice of offering free games as part of a bundle deal and made it sound like a huge conspiracy plot to take over the world. Wow, talk about clickbait, n4g eats this crap up everytime.

[spicelicka]

loll like your comment. I guess you don't buy anything on sale because you consider it desperation.

[_LarZen_]

$249 for a XboxOne S with 3 games ain't bad. And it has a UHD Blu-ray drive for those with a 4K TV.

These exclusives promotion deals both Sony and Microsoft have are such bullshit. Problem is casuals and fanboys can't see past the bullshit.

[sk8ofmnd]

Im pretty sure people would rather pay for destiny 2 and get a ps4 than buy an xb1 and get it for free... Whats sad is it would take getting it for free with the X to even think about swaying consumers.

[Kiwi66]

When is paying full price for the game better than getting it technically for free

[Benchm4rk]

*some people

[sk8ofmnd]

Some doesnt = +60 mil vs +30 mil install base... Im pretty sure thats *most people

[darthv72]

Why is that?

[Benchm4rk]

But you never said *most in your post. That's why I mentioned it. Not denying it will sell more on PS4. Just your first comment assume people in general as in all people. I consider myself part of this people group and I own both consoles but chose to buy it on Xbox as that's where I played Destiny 1 on and that's where most of my friends are playing it on too.

[spwittbold]

You clearly don't understand the market, at all.

[mandingo]

Good god the hate toward Xbox is unreal.. really disappointing to see so many people spew their shit. Last gen everyone was on the Xbox 360 train and all of sudddn it's just pure hate. I get that Microsoft has made mistakes this gen gen but holy crap don't hate just cause it's the cool thing to do.

[_LarZen_]

Yeah it's gone from irritating to pathetic how these clowns act. Thankfully even tho they are the most vocal on places like this they are insignificant in the big picture. Just as in real life most likely.

[Dragonscale]

And the fanatx never ever hate on PlayStation articles. Poor little xbox fanboys. Lol.

[LordJamar]

Xbox topic and sonys topics near night and day on here. Xbox gets bash beyond belief

[Dragonscale]

Utter rubbish.

[The_KELRaTH]

Irrespective of who has what share, "Xbox One S 500GB Forza Horizon 3 Bundle + Destiny 2 + Dishonored 2 + Doom + Fallout 4 (Inc Fallout 3) £199.85" is a very good deal

[sizeofyou]

"Sony sneaks past Microsoft with an Assassin's Creed bundle."
No...not really...

[Xenophon_York]

Super desperate for sales—but, dang, that is a great price. If Microsoft threw in Assassin's Creed: Unity, Madden 18, Destiny 2, Horizon 3, Sea of Thieves, Crackdown 3 AND revived and included Scalebound for two fifty I STILL wouldn't be tempted to support such a greedy company.

Serves them right for threatening to force the 'always connected' Internet requirement before XBOX One launched. If XBOX separated from Microsoft then MAYBE things could turn around to benefit all gamers. Until then, I just don't trust MS's business strategy and executions.

[darthv72]

Ahhh... see I knew people like you existed. Holding a grudge against the system out of spite for the company that made it.

Well, at least you admit it while others don't have the balls to. I don't agree with the decisions that sony, MS, Sega, Nintendo, hell even Atari have made. But I never once held a grudge on the hardware. I like gaming to much to be that petty.

[LordJamar]

Facts

[LordJamar]

Actully kinda surprise you got more disagree then agrees i have regained faith in humanity now

[OffRoadKing]

Microsoft be sneaky, you dont say.

[Wolfrunt]

That's not a bad deal , shame i own the BF1 bundle ,
Yet still a free Destiny 2 game , if lackluster at least I won't be out any money and can trade the game in for 35.00 towards another game.

[Relientk77]

Could they be anymore desperate

Can't wait to see how much it sells more on PS4

[gangsta_red]

MS gives away games, their desperate.

MS puts microtransactions in their games and their greedy.

What can you do?

[badz149]

how about they don't give away games out of desperation and don't put microtransactions in?

but giving free games is cool no matter which console and I applaud them for that. I'm all for free games but desperation is desperation no matter how good the deal is though.

[LordJamar]

Jeez your a fanboy that last part made me gag like wtf do you get off to console wars?

Sony bought almost every 3rd party deal is that desperate? They bought and and kept content from every one elese but its good when they do it?

[Bennibop]

Typical Microsoft move, lacks class.

[Ristul]

They want those gold subscriptions, and they are willing to give the game away to achieve that and at the same time get a larger userbase. Im sure some will fall for it.

[Ristul]

nativegoku: Are you saying they are giving away games to be nice? LOL, they are doing it b/c they think that they can make profit off of it on other things, like Xbox Live Gold. Destiny 2 is a big online game that will make a lot of people subscribe, the question is, will they pick Gold or Plus. Microsoft is trying their hardest to make people pick their service.

You call others slow but in fact, you are the one who is stupid if you think companies care about you enough to give you things for free. Now go to bed before I own you some more little kid.

[badz149]

MS worried about XBL? nah...they could just blame Sony for not allowing cross-play and help them boost XBL activity

[DreadGara]

Desperate move from Xbone, Actually they need to do something like this or else they will be in trouble stacking units in their warehouse like Minecraft bots.

[LordJamar]

Other option is to do nothing?

[aaronaton]

900p doesn't mean 900pence, Microsoft.

[corroios]

This means microsoft will loseeven more money in each console sold, sony will makemoney in each sold. Worlds apart. And the gap keep getting bigger

[spwittbold]

Go look at Sony's financial statements versus Microsoft. It's a no brainer who makes more money (hint: It isn't Sony).

[corroios]

Not from gaming. Microsoft is a huge company, but consoles wise...

[badz149]

@corroios

they have deep pockets. among the deepest in the world too. so they don't care, I think. based on their monthly NPD report, they care more about XBL engagement than the total number of console sold LOL

but what really makes me think is...all that money, yet so little investments into in-house 1st party games. they have release just ONE 1st party games this whole year - Halo Wars 2! compared THAT to Sony, which is always being ridiculed especially here for bleeding money, just released THREE 1st party games in like 2 weeks!

[Quetzll]

$250 for an XBOS with 3 games. That's a seriously good deal. Hope it moves some units

[eferreira]

At my local eb. Everyone was getting the PS4 version

[Chevalier]

Yep, my store had more than double Xbox in preorders and we had 10 boxes for PS4 alone versus the measly 5 we got for Xbox. It will be 2-1 for PS4 in sales.

[CitizenFour]

The amount of butthurt in these comments is hilarious.

[Skankinruby]

Lol oh boy it's just like stupid destiny fragrance all over again. They are so obsessed with having the upper hand in public view if only they would show a fraction of that in getting some quality exclusives.

[LordJamar]

Obsessed when sony bought nearly every 3rd party deal???

[GoodnessGreatness]

Desperate lol. Still rather get the console that has the better games. PS4 is still the better deal.

[LordJamar]

Slow clap

[ajax17]

Damn, that's a helluva deal

[Gotcha5]

Hope they do the same with COD WW2 and Battlefront 2.

[GamingCentaur]

They will. Buy an Xbox get a free game.

[Elda]

Seems somewhat desperate but it may be a strategy to sell consoles.

[badz149]

"may be"??

[LordJamar]

Desperate? What is the other option do nothing and dont try? This aint nintendo xbox still gets 3rd party

[BadElf]

That's a great, great bundle. Wow.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

One of this years biggest and most anticipated games .... not shocked at all that the company that doesn't have a marketing deal for it would work in a loophole deal to help promote it on their platform. Business 101.

[LordJamar]

Now Just for wait for nintendo.......oh wait lmao

[Xenophon_York]

Sony offering a PS4 Pro with the Destiny 2 digital content and expansion pass for four hundred and fifty bucks is still the better bargain. (It's one hundred for the game and content alone—so the Pro is basically only three fifty.)

[DarXyde]

Not really a "bundle", but okay.

At the very least, I'm hoping it means Sony won't waste money on marketing deals.

[badz149]

yeah...Sony shouldn't waste all their money for these stupid 3rd party deals and should invest in their barren exclusives lineup for change, right? oh...wait.

instead of Destiny, they should have secure the NFL rights, am I right? /s

[DarXyde]

Save your sarcasm.

I'm saying that Sony should invest in their own studios or third-party exclusives, not MARKETING deals.

Understand? Marketing. Nothing to do with games themselves. I find it to be a waste of money to buy marketing rights to multiplatform games.

[badz149]

you're saying it like they don't market their game enough. admittedly, aside from Uncharted and GoW, their other games got only a fraction of the marketing budget of those 2 games but still they are marketing them enough by bringing them to their show floor and press conferences and if you like the Playstation page on Facebook, there are lots of exposure towards these smaller 1st party games just like the recent Everybody's Golf and Knack 2. there should be TV ads too, I suppose but I wouldn't know because game related TV ads is not really a thing where I live.

"I find it to be a waste of money to buy marketing rights to multiplatform games."

I get what you meant but you do know all of these 3rd party deals are for the biggest selling IPs in the market nowadays, right? they are gonna sell a truckloads with or without these exclsuive deals with MS or Sony. that is how huge they are and it's exactly why Sony is doing all they can to secure them. as dominant as the PS4 is in the market right now, showing off your association with gaming newest and biggest IPs is still very important to artificially sway the gamers perception and decision when buying a new system. "ohh..these games look cool" and the logo that they are gonna see 1st is PS4 so they are gonna lean towards that. I don't have to explain this though as that's how marketing are suppose to work and why they are so common. if Sony doesn't secure them, MS will and the last thing Sony wants right now is let the PS4 loose steam and let the Xbone gain it. these deals are more about hampering Xbone sales than selling more PS4s TBH.

[Flewid638]

Another Xbox console that leans heavily towards 'pew pew' and 'bang bang'?

Ya don't say....

[LordJamar]

What? Sony bought the rights for both this and battlefront

[Flewid638]

What's that got to do with this Bundle?