Spencer: Scorpio Isn’t Trying To Compete with High-End Rigs, It’ll Have Console Price Point

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EricHiggin said:

celador said:

No way PS5 is fall 2018. That's around the time games like Last of Us 2 and Death Stranding will come out. 

Sony doesn't need to rush PS5 just because Scorpio will have a power advantage over it, PS4 will continue to sell great (much more than X1) and have a large install base regardless.

PS5 is fall 2019 at the earliest

That's like saying PS2 was selling like hot cakes (the highest selling console in history by far) so PS didn't need to make an over the top $1000 console and sell it for $599, one year after the 360 launched. If PS3 waited to launch a year later than it did, things would have been even worse for PS. PS4 has a lot of momentum yes, but that momentum is based on its direct competition which is the XB1, not Scorpio.

PS5 launch, The Last Of Us Part II. Sounds like a sure fire way to sell a boat load of new consoles to me.

Scorpio launching at 499-599 isn't going to steal no thunder from PS4. Even Pro were very small sales compared to PS4 vanila and that was during BF from a 249 vs 340. Considering X1 is doing worse than vanilla PS4 and it will be a 499 Scorpio versus a 199 X1 I think Scorpio won't be smoking hot sales. Defining a console as enthusiastic level certainly can't be accompanied with high sales expectatives.

malistix1985 said:

WoodenPints said:
Pretty much confirms to me a $399-$499 price tag. remember back in 2013 when people paid $499 for an inferior piece of hardware and if this time it's going to be superior hardware people will be happy to pay for it, When the Scorpio launches the Xbox One S will be $249 so an extra $200 for the Scorpio would be enough to be classed as that premium price Phil mentioned before.

Gonna be interesting to see how people react, for 4 years the ps4 has been the better buy from a technical point if you want to play games on your television, if you bought a xbox you did it because you like the games better or the fact its a better media player.

Either way, how will people decide when next year the xbox for the first time this gen will have a significantly better console from a technical perspective, the extra memory and much faster GDDR5X memory will make more difference then the ps4pro did.

Im excited.

We will finally take out 2 myths... First that PS4 sold better than X1 due to price (it was part on it, but after initial reception X1 undercut PS4 and still undersold, GC also undercut PS2 and undersold) or power (because Scorpio will be stronger than PS4 and PS4Pro but will probably sell lower than X1S that is weaker than the 3).