Rumor: Xbox "Lockhart" specs leaked, is $300

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Nu-13 said:

DialgaMarine said:
Personally, I don’t see the point in having a lower end console like this if they already have the XB1X, and plan to keep putting games on last gen hardware for the next couple years anyways. Probably be smarter to just cut the price of X and develop on that as the lower end console, if they absolutely need a lower end.

As far as how this will effect sales, we know now that XB1 family of consoles is at 42 - 43 million total, even with XB1 being cheaper than the PS4 for quite some time now. With MS emphasizing subscription fees and moving further way from their own hardware, I don’t see this lower end XS console having much of an impact, especially if it’s digital only.

I can't for my life undertand the point of acting as if a super niche hardware revision is an actual console with dozens of millions sold.

With Microsoft and most third parties likely committed to cross gen for at least 24months, I think Microsoft will have a hard time distinguishing Xbox Series S from X1X. When support for current gen is dropped it'll be much easier but since MS have already said that won't happen for 2 years after Series X launches, so it feels like they should just let those on a budget continue to game on Xbox One or upgrade to Xbox One X which is already $299.