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

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goopy20 said:

sales2099 said:

This may come as a shock to you, but most gamers don’t go online to talk about video games. Most don’t care about having the absolute most power. Most casually play games like COD/FIFA/fortnight/Apex legends/GTA5 etc. Gaming isn’t a big part of their lives nor is it part of their identity. It’s just something they do when they got a few hours to kill. 

Core gamers number the least millions of a console consumer base. We are the “whales” of the industry but are far from the majority. We just have our voices heard the loudest because we actively participate in discussion and outreach to the devs. 

If these people just want to play next gen games without the bells and whistles that say the Series X provides, then more power to them. So long as core gamers like me get the Series X I could care less. 

We could debate on what a "core" gamer is, but to me it's anyone who plays the latest AAA games like GTA, COD etc. Maybe not everyone cares or understands anything about the technical specs, but even my 90-year-old granny understands the concept of you get what you pay for. People will automatically assume there's a reason why it's cheaper and that they'll get a compromised version of GTA6 compared to their buddy's on ps5. Truth is we live in a world where teenagers carry $1000 phones with them and nobody knows or cares what kind of hardware is in them. So is $99 really going to make that much of a difference? We also know that the masses are fine with paying at least $399 for a console, so why make it $299?

The only thing that can come from this is that Series X will be an even harder sell. For the first 2 years MS exclusives on Series X will be hold back by going cross-gen with the Xone. And the remainder of the console generation it will be hold back by Series S's gpu that's 3 times weaker. I just don't see how developers could really make good use of something like Ray Tracing if they constantly have to think "Will this work on 4Tflops too?" 

I get why people might think the Series X will be native 4k and Series S will be 1080p. But ask anyone who knows anything about game design and they'll tell you that resolution will have the least priority with a next gen console. Just look at how many games are 720p on Xone. If the only difference between Series X and S will be that it runs the same games at 4 times the resolution (which most people will barely notice), it just means the developers did a crappy job because it could have been 4 times the overall visual fidelity.  

Fact remains the Series S is a upgrade from the base last gen consoles and can undercut the PS5 by at least $200. That’s attractive no matter how you spin it. And if you think it’s too weak for your taste...here’s the Series X. The powerful console made for core gamers. 

You can change the narrative to preserve your own, I guess “one holding back the other” will be an enduring narrative to keep Xbox down in online discussion...every gen has a new line, but this is funny in how reaching it is.

You’d be silly to think that Series X will never have its potential tapped.