Does PS5 have a good chance to win the launch season?

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Cerebralbore101 said:

0D0 said:

Good points on price and stock. Microsoft can get really aggressive with price and discounts. We'll see.

MS really likes to muddy the waters, so I could see Series S being sold on a payment plan. Something like paying $30 a month for two years, and you get XBL Gold, a diskless Series S, and Gamepass. That would come out to about $360 per console, but MS would probably talk about "value" from now until the end of time. Roughly 30% of console users have online subscriptions, so for most people XBL would be a waste of money. But a lot of people would buy into that, because they don't want to pay $300 upfront, or buy games.

I agree with your point but you seemed to do the math wrong and your price is too high.  $30/month for 2 years is $720, which would be too much for the Series S and GamePass combined.  When MS started All Access, they sold the One X, which was $500, for $28/month.  I would expect the Series X to be AT MOST $30/month and the Series S to be $20-25/month.  But I agree and fully expect MS to really push All Access for next gen as I feel that's a big way they can get customers, especially in North America.