{"id":8090,"date":"2017-12-15T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/311823"},"modified":"2017-12-15T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:31:00","slug":"microsoft-is-bundling-battlegrounds-with-the-xbox-one-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/15\/microsoft-is-bundling-battlegrounds-with-the-xbox-one-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is bundling Battlegrounds with the Xbox One X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2017\/12\/15\/xbox-one-x-pubg-promotion\/\">announced<\/a> that it will be bundling <em>PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battleground<\/em>s with new Xbox One X consoles sold between December 17 and the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The move is the closest thing the Xbox One X has seen to a holiday discount this year, with the combined console and game coming in at the One X&#8217;s standard $499 price tag. Given the popularity of <em>Battlegrounds<\/em> as well, it&#8217;s likely this will help fuel the competition between the One X and PlayStation 4 Pro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/307960\/Researchers_expect_close_holiday_competition_between_Xbox_One_X_and_PS4_Pro.php\">analysts expect to see<\/a> during the current holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the promotion comes just days after <em>Battlegrounds<\/em> made its console debut on the Xbox One through the platform&#8217;s early access-like Xbox Game Preview program. Within 48 hours of its December 12 release, Microsoft says <em>PUBG<\/em> surpassed 1 million players on the Xbox One alone.<\/p>\n<p>While players don&#8217;t necessarily equate to sales, it is worth noting that the PC release of <em>PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/295799\/Playerunknowns_Battlegrounds_surpasses_1_million_sales.php\">reached 1 million sold<\/a> just over two weeks after its first launch and has since skyrocketed to over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/309167\/PlayerUnknowns_Battlegrounds_crosses_20_million_copies_sold.php\">20 million sold<\/a> in less than a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that it will be bundling PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds with new Xbox One X consoles sold between December 17 and the end of 2017. The move is the closest thing the Xbox One X has seen to a holiday discount this year, with the combined console and game coming in at the One X&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}