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

[Mr Puggsly]

shikamaru317 said:

victor83fernandes said:

Get a job, 500dollars is 1 weeks work.

Facepalm. Now you sound like early 7th gen Sony, when they said that gamers should want to get a 2nd job to buy the $600 PS3, it was a big part of Sony's early 7th gen arrogance that nearly caused them to come in 3rd place, had they not reversed course and dropped the arrogance. 

You do realize that not every gamer has a great job, right? Some gamers live on an extremely tight budget, they basically live paycheck to paycheck and have very little budget for entertainment and gaming each month. Nobody wants to work overtime hours for a few weeks or something to buy $600 console. 

To be fair, the more I see about Series X makes me think $500-600 is totally reasonable. However, a Series S at $299 shows they would be considering a market that wants the same content even at lower visual fidelity.

I think the biggest issue with PS3 is Sony kept telling us it was a beast in specs, but we didn't see that in practice. Therefore Sony had to do massive price cuts because they invested in the wrong specs in my opinion.