Xbox One to cost £600 in the UK -- says Amazon

Although Microsoft has yet to officially reveal the price of its next generation games console, Amazon has decided to set the figure at £599.99 on its pre-order page.

This is considerably higher than most people would have expected -- closer to £400 would have been a reasonable guess -- and dwarfs the launch price of the Xbox 360 which cost gamers £209.99 for the core system back in December 2005.

Of course just because Amazon says it will cost £600, with free postage, doesn’t mean that’s how much interested shoppers will need to pay for the next generation device.

It’s likely to have been priced this high just so Amazon can send good news to pre-orderers when the real, much lower, figure is announced. The pre-order page does say "Order now and you'll be charged the lowest price at release", which is a good indicator that the figure Amazon has on its site is just a guestimate.

Amazon.com has yet to put up a pre-order page, but expect it to appear shortly.

How much would you be prepared to pay for the Xbox One? Will you be buying it at launch?