MS Hints At Scorpio Being Cheaper Than People Think

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Azuren said:

Soundwave said:

Dreamcast was great hardware wise playing Soul Calibur on it in 1999 was miles beyond anything else on the market. 

Besides MS' model is different anyway, they can release a new hardware model every 3 years, I think that will be the norm for them now. Sony will not be given a hardware advantage again, so launching in 2017 is good, if PS5 is 2019, then MS can move on a better system in 2020. It's a good cycle for MS. 

Dreamcast didn't have that going for it. 

Literally everything you mentioned about MS's business model is speculative.

And Dreamcast was thoroughly destroyed in specs less than 18-months after its release. Regardless of your nostalgia for SoulCal, waiting a year to adopt similar technologies to the PS2 would have given it a fighting chance.

Interestingly, the same will most likely happen to the Scorpio, as ~18 months later we'll at least have the announcement of the PS5. 

@ OP

Definitely deflection.  Which is actually understandable this early out.  Still, I expect the Scorpio to be priced at $499, with the talk of the Scorpio being a premium product with a premium price and when they said the GPU alone cost as much as the PS3 at launch.  I still think the last part is BS, especially if it turns out the Scorpio is using an overclocked RX480, but it just screams "get ready for a more expensive console."  At best, I think we can expect a $449 price.  Of course, Sony will probably drop the Pro to $349, which will be the same $100 advantage the OG PS4 had at launch.