...but on the other hand, being out March 2020 poses a big risk of letting Sony get the upper hand by being able to tailor PS5 to counter what Xbox Two offers. |
I'm not betting it will happen, just that i won't be surprised if it does. Let's imagine that in June 2019, Microsoft officialy annouces next Xbox showing new trailers from next gen games from their own like Halo Infinity and from companies like Ubisoft, EA, Activision, etc having marketing deals with those games but without saying price and launch date. Move forward to begin 2020 after holiday season. Announce next Xbox launching in March 2020 at $499 (a very powerful console) with updates from current gen games, extended gamepass service and minor exlusive games to launch in NA, some parts of Europe and rest of the world. By E3 2020 just announce more games for the end of the year and the launch date of Halo Infinity by October 2020. Next Xbox launching in March at least selling 2-3M worldwide during first month. By October at the time of Halo Inifinty launch you have around 3M units sold in USA and it sells around 1M more during that month. Not only that, by that time next Xbox launch in the rest of markets in the world. So if PS5 launches in November 2020 like i expect, you can have Next Xbox having already sold around 6-7M worldwide (and around 3M just in USA) before that and with one of the bigger games of the year in the holiday season. So XB automatically is the console with bigger userbase for 3rd party games. And if 499$ is too much you can low the price during 2021. In my opinion that would be the only way to stole the thunder from PS5 and their exclusives lineup.
I just think that if next Xbox launches alongside PS5 again, they will lose the battle once more....
