Phil Spencer Joins Unlocked, Talks Scorpio

[EricHiggin]

Based on the price question about Scorpio being higher than $399 and if they can get away with it, looking at how Phil answers the question in terms of what he says and how he says it, even his body language, its like he wants to say its a really powerful next gen box for a next gen price, but can't say it due to the no more gens marketing.

Taking his entire answer into account, I can't believe Scorpio will be any less than $499. I wouldn't exactly call the Pro launch price of $399 scary, and he seems to be quite worried the price will scare some people. With Phil talking about learning from mistakes, there's no way they could be thinking of charging $599 like PS3 was at launch. Could they? He does also say they don't plan on selling many Scorpio's and the large majority of sales will continue to be for the XB1S. The PS3 was able to sell around 10 million units in the first year of sales from $499 to $599, and whether the Pro will be able to do those kind of numbers at $399 in one years time is questionable.

Unless Phil is thinking its a good idea to get people a little worried about the cost of Scorpio, only to drop a $399 launch price at E3 to make people erupt like they did when they found out how cheap PS4 was, considering they mostly assumed it was going to be close to XB1 price based on the specs. This could also backfire since some people might just get a Pro now since they may assume Scorpio will probably be more expensive.