Screamapillar on 20 August 2016
Consoles are never as expensive as you think they're going to be. They get manufacturering discounts for buying bulk, like stocking up on paper towels at Costco for 1/2 the price you'd pay at a grocery store.
It won't be priced higher than $499, because any price above that is out of the range of mass market appeal, and therefore it won't sell in high enough volume for software sales to be profitable, so therefore the market for the system would never materialize and it would be discontinued. Microsoft may not make a profit on it at $499, and they may even take a slight loss, but they'll make it as powerful as they can, while being able to sell it at $499 or less and still be able to turn Scorpio into a successful platform business.
The Screamapillar is easily identified by its constant screaming—it even screams in its sleep. The Screamapillar is the favorite food of everything, is sexually attracted to fire, and needs constant reassurance or it will die.
