Swordmasterman on 20 August 2016
| Screamapillar said: 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 $499 or less and still be able to turn Scorpio into a successful platform business. |
Despite the bad launch of the Xbox One, it had higher sales in launch than both Original Xbox and Xbox 360, do you think that Scorpion can beat that ? It is hard to know, but, since it seems that Microsoft turned their image from what it was in 2013, maybe they will be able to achieve that atleast in the USA. People purchased a underpowered Xbox One with Kinect for over 500US$, Scorpio will be very powerful, the price may be a little higher than that, but I think that,with the high power, it will be able to compete against Xbox One's Launch. We will need to see how well it goes after that. Will be interesting, it is the first console that will launch when they announced that every game will have a PC Version, maybe even Steam Version.
