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[DonFerrari]

NoCtiS_NoX said:

thismeintiel said:

Sony could 100% handle launching a year later. They have before. No, what hurt the PS3 is not only did they launch at $200 more expensive, but the custom HW was so complicated for devs early on that the 3rd party games didn't even take advantage of the extra horsepower for years to come. Had the PS3 been able to launch at $399 and devs could have taken advantage of the power within months, instead of years, it would have absolutely crushed the 360.

Well, you cannot deny how MS is really aggressive from the get go when 360 launch. Buying exclusive left and right whether timed or full. Making the PS exclusive multi-plat. Even if PS3 was priced right. They let MS to have 1 year headstart where 3rd party was able to have a fanbase for their games and Sony cannot let the COD/Battlefield, GTA crowd to built a fanbase on the new box for a year. You cannot underestimate the effect of COD/FPS crowd. 

derpysquirtle64 said:

Yes, I agree that Sony won't let MS get one year head start again. But there is no way MS launches their new console next year. They've just launched One X less than half year ago.

In late 2019 will be XboX will be 2 years. Early 2019 is not wise but I can see MS doing it. They killed the Original Xbox to soon as well. 
Ignore the E3 part I jumped the gun a bit I forgot that E3 is 3 months away so we cannot see any announcement there.

BraLoD said:

You mean Microsoft finally found something to get attention with the One X (power) and is getting some good reception on it and it'll just scrap it right away and release yet another Xbox in about 1 year? lol

Next gen is not coming early 2019, neither Sony or Microsoft want it that soon.

See my reply above.

DonFerrari said:

Ok, so you think MS will release X2 about 18 months after X1X? That will certainly gain a lot of love from the userbase. Also considering they will announce it like 6 months before launch, they will have put a lot of money in R&D and marketing for X1X, killed a lot of sales of X1 by talking about X1X for more than 12 months before launch... all of that to sell like 5M X1X? Do you think MS is crazy?

Just to be clear. I am not agreeing with early 2019 release date ( i think that will be announcement month for PS5 like the PS4)  I am arguing about that people are only focusing on the sale of PS4 and 2019 is a bad idea discounting 1 important factor as well. If ever MS released  the next Box in 2019. Sony cannot wait for 2020 to release PS5 so regardless if PS4 is still selling well, they cannot afford the new xbox to have a 1 year advantage again as I explained above with "Thismeintiel" they cannot afford the new xbox to have an early fanbase of COD players or FPS gamers. 

And people are disagreeing with MS looking to release X2 in 2019Q1 because that would make no sense, since it wouldn't have much more power than X1X, wouldn't be cheap and would be to close to X1X launch... they would just burn themselves without any good reason... even more after they said they are aiming to a no-gen future.