| Solid-Stark said: Still sticking with my estimate, $499. This thing will be likely Zen based, RX 490 equivalent ($300+ GPU card. In comparison PS4's have had a closer to $200 GPU and they launched at $400), and 12GB of GDDR5. To target native 4K, I just can't see it for less than $499. |
XB1 sold for $499, and with all the negativity towards the brand before and after the launch, it still sold quite well, just not PS4 record breaking well. Once MS came clean about "flipping the switch" things got even better for them. The XB1S strong sales numbers just add to this.
If XB1 was able to do as well as it has, with all the mistakes MS made early on, and all the wrongs they've righted since, just imagine what they could do when they finally are able to fix the hardware issue...
A $499 native 4k console will make XB1 sales look like an absolute joke. It still won't sell like PS4 did, but will be respectable. This of course depends on whether or not PS decides to pull a MS and announce PS5 early and ruin the Scorpio party. PS won't risk Xmas 2017 PS4 and Pro sales though, so 2018 news at the earliest, maybe.
