After releasing internationally in August 2016, listings on Amazon India and Flipkart have finally confirmed that you can buy the Xbox One S[1] in India officially. The Xbox One S India price is Rs. 29,990[2] for the 500GB version with a digital copy of Forza Horizon 3[3]. There's a 1TB Xbox One S version available for pre-order and priced at Rs. 31,999[4] (though Flipkart has it listed for Rs. 34,990[5]). The Xbox One S India release date is October 10. Both listings are through Amazon India's and Flipkart's official merchant partners, Cloudtail and RetailNet respectively, lending credence to the fact these are official prices and dates.
Multiple retailers speaking to Gadgets 360 have said that the pricing on both Flipkart and Amazon India are indeed accurate. Furthermore, they claim that Microsoft has been making the rounds to survey shelf space at stores and possibly put up demo units as well. What this means is, if you're not interested in purchasing the Xbox One S online, there's a good chance it will be available offline too. Though the company is yet to revert to our queries on the same.
Pre-ordering gets you Battlefield 1[6] and Gears of War 4[7] too. Much like Forza Horizon 3, these will be digital codes that would be emailed customers by October 19. The Xbox One S is a smaller, more power efficient version of the Xbox One that launched in November 2013 in the US and November 2014 in India.
The starting price of Rs. 29,990 is in sharp contrast to its price in the grey market, where the Xbox One S 500GB variant is for Rs. 18,000. Prior to the official...