| DonFerrari said: Problem is that they really would prefer to not have anything below MS at the start of the gen for then to take cheapshots. If they can put 1TB SSD for the same price of 128GB SSD and 2TB HDD then sure it's a much better solution. But if they go and have a console at launch that is 128 or 256GB SSD it will be seem as downgrade from this gen and much inferior to a Xbox with 2TB HDD for the casual buyer and also be pushed in marketing. I wouldn't mind paying 500-600 USD on the console if all that budget is used to put the best components on price benefit to push for best possible graphics in budget, but it'll be hard to see over 399 launch from Sony. |
I really don't think hard drive size could ever be used as a reason to buy a console. Ever.
If anything the fact one is an SSD and the other is a HDD and one is faster and the other is slower will make for more relevant talking points. When there are videos of games loading in half the time on one console vs the other no one will say " takes twice as long to load but at least you can store twice as many games at once though".
I think the most the consoles can cost will be $499. And even that may be pushing it.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we see a $399 SKU without a disc drive and 1TB of storage and a $499 sku with the disc drive and 2TB of storage. And then have an external disc drive as an accessory for around $79.
